r/CapeCellular

I was very close to signing up but while doing my due diligence I found a number of articles on medium speaking ill of capes security. I was hoping a cape employee could address them. I’d also like to voice my opinion on the importance of a 3rd party audit. I don’t trust any company for its word alone in this day and age. The palantir association of the cape C suite doesn’t inspire confidence as you know in this community.

Sam Brice makes a number of claims in his numerous articles about his cape experience.

What happens if a US subscriber travels internationally for longer than 30 days using the service? What is considered 30 consecutive days? Calls? Texts? Data? If you turn the service off for a day every 29 days does that satisfy requirements?

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Hey Cape team. Why don't you put the APK on your website so we can download it straight. Downloading through the Play store seems rather counter intuitive to privacy.

Also the alternative store for graphene seems unnecessary. Just put the apk on your website!

Is this purely US based atm? I see roaming countries list with 5gb data/voice/iphone/Android...

If so when are you expecting global roll out and what countries are involved?

Being a privacy-first service, I would expect the app to be open source so we can verify that features within the app are privacy respecting and that the app doesn't have any major security vulnerabilities. I looked around the internet for a bit but was unable to find any source code related to the Cape app.

Just some feedback on voicemail:

• The voicemail prompt recording seems to be very low fidelity, it sounds like a tape recorder recording, can that be updated? It sounds sketchy. So much so I keep getting texts asking me if my phone has been redirected to some illegitimate service.

• The verbiage of the recording sounds a little silly. I don’t mind it says ”the Cape subscriber“ but the ending with it being encrypted has been off putting to people leaving me voicemails. they’ve all asked about it. I am not really sure I want people to know I’m using Cape or about the encryption. It would be better if it had a more generic message with an American accent, to be more professional.

• I know some people have a must have use case for voicemail encryption, but for many we’d prefer to use iOS visual voicemail. I’d love if we had the option to use standard voicemail integrated with our phones.

• The Cape app has to be open to get a notice that a voicemail has been delivered. It would be better if that pushed to the app even if it’s not open.

I am very much interested in Cape Cellular I do have a few questions before I take the plunge

- will I be able to normally text , photos, FaceTime etc or will
I need to use to the app to text (if I’m using my main number)?
- will I be able to signal the same way as normal?

Thank you!

Today I decided to try and finally switch over to Cape. I have been a bit skeptical of switching, but I am still looking for a privacy-centered phone service. However, after getting the application set up and installed on my phone, things seem to be working. I was able to use the Cape app to send messages with my secondary phone number and still send messages with my primary number. However, shortly after, I noticed that my apps on my phone were beginning to move around, and then with some scrolling, I noticed that I had a number of apps around two gigabytes worth of data being continually installed and re-installed after I uninstalled them. These apps included things such as Teamoo, a news app, Facebook, TikTok, and a couple other applications that I'm unsure of what they were. I was finally able to turn on airplane mode and cut my Wi-Fi, get everything uninstalled, and force quit the app installer. But I then was very skeptical about what was going on and immediately removed the e-sim from my phone, which has let me in a bit of a bite. Has anyone else had these sorts of issues? Is this a privacy concern or is this a bug within the app?

I'm considering switching, but I'd like to confirm its performance and data speeds in my area before signing up. Is there a tool or app available that can deliver this?

Has anyone done that with an active contract, like Verizon? Does the referral system work before or after the contract buyout?