Productivity
Signal Messenger
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Signal is a free, private messaging app with end-to-end encrypted calls and messages.
76/100
Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.
Is Signal Messenger production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Signal Messenger 76 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Signal Messenger (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 73/100
- Accessibility — 82/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 100/100
- Discoverability — 60/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 87 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Privacy-conscious individuals · Families and friends · Coworkers · Anyone seeking secure communication · People avoiding SMS/MMS fees
Pricing
Free