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A fork of Signal for Android with passphrase lock
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Molly[1], a fork of Signal, seems to work fine. I've used it for a long time and never had any issues with it (and it connects to Signal fine). But for security reasons one of their changes was dropping SMS, so switching to it won't do you any good there.
The Molly[1] fork of Signal already removed SMS support.
There are third party apps that connect to Signal's servers such as Molly. https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
In most cases you are going to want to separately passphrase your messaging stuff so it is locked up when you are not using it. That makes every thing else a lot easier. For example, there is a Signal fork that supports such operation:
The issue was branding, not bandwidth. There’re 3rd party clients:
If the backup restore is a merge rather than a nuke and pave it might make sense to do whatever Molly[1][2] does to allow it to be installed alongside Signal, so it's install this, import from WhatsApp, then backup/restore without having to do the uninstall/reinstall dance.