[6] A goal of the Invisible.im group is to help people maintain privacy by developing a "metadata free" instant messaging client.

[1] Ricochet is a modern alternative to TorChat,[8] which hasn't been updated in several years, and to Tor Messenger, which is discontinued.

[9] On September 17, 2014, it was announced that the Invisible.im group would be working with Brooks on further development of Ricochet in a Wired article by Kim Zetter.

[5] Zetter also wrote that Ricochet's future plans included a protocol redesign and file-transfer capabilities.

[10] In February 2016, Ricochet's developers made public a security audit that had been sponsored by the Open Technology Fund and carried out by the NCC Group in November 2015.