Signal & WhatsApp Bridges
Use your Signal and WhatsApp contacts directly inside tjena!chat. Pick the tjena server bridge for convenience, or run your own WhatsApp bridge at home so only you can read your messages.
tjena server bridge
WhatsApp
Signal
Decrypted on the tjena server
- Runs on the tjena!chat server — nothing to set up except linking your account
- Chats on all your tjena devices
- Receives messages even when your phones are off
- Your messages are decrypted on our server, so you have to trust us with them
Your own WhatsApp bridge
WhatsApp
Only decrypted on your phone at home
- Runs in the tjena Bridge app on a spare Android phone at home
- The tjena server only passes encrypted data along — it can't read your messages
- Chats on all your tjena devices, like the server bridge
- WhatsApp sees your home connection, not a shared server address
- WhatsApp voice and video calls from tjena (beta)
- Several WhatsApp accounts on one bridge phone
- Needs a phone that stays at home on Wi-Fi and a charger
WhatsApp doesn't officially allow third-party clients. Both bridges connect as a "linked device", and WhatsApp may restrict or ban accounts that use unofficial clients. Use them at your own risk.
WhatsApp Bridge — Known Limitations
The mautrix-whatsapp bridge (used by both bridges) does not yet support all WhatsApp features:
- Calls only work with your own bridge, and only one-to-one (no group calls)
- WhatsApp Status can be shown as a chat (own bridge setting), not as stories
- Polls are not relayed
- WhatsApp Channels and Newsletters are not supported
- Disappearing messages are delivered but the timer is not enforced
- View-once media is received, but the view-once restriction is not enforced
- Some sticker types may not display correctly
- WhatsApp Business features (catalogs, products) are not supported
Service status
- Checking…