Overview over available native maintanted messengerclients available?

It's mostly a matter of clients that family/friends use. I use mostly Viber, installed from Yalp Store, even if I tried many times to suggest my family to use something more open and secure, like a native XMPP self hosted solution. No luck though. Whatsapp goes for the most, with a few other on Telegram.

my very aggressive anti Whatsapp position creates the situation that most of my friends use signal threema and or telegram. but i would like to use native clients, for a better integration and save battery live. XMPP would be okay but the message app doesn't support encryption or they add this?

I'm now changing from whatsapp to Telegram - and inviting people to do the same, in my circle, with parcial sucess. Telegram have a native client that work just 'ok' - Depecher - but you could use a web version of Telegram in a native browser, wich is almost fully operative

Have you heard of Briar? Looks like it is only Android at the moment, but not having a server instance between two endpoints reduces server-side inspection issues, I guess.

Im am working on getting family to use XMPP, the easiest way to get my friends and family to change is to give them easy instructions and tutorial so they just have to follow and not think to hard. hahaha I am still trying to figure out how to import my ssl certificates for encryption .