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Extend Wire with secure Apps

Wire is the most secure, end-to-end encrypted platform for calling, messaging, and document sharing — designed for modern, privacy-conscious collaboration.
It enables teams and organizations to communicate seamlessly while maintaining the highest standards of privacy, security, and compliance.


🧩 What is the Wire Integration SDK?

The Wire Integration SDK is a developer toolkit that enables developers to build custom apps, bots, and integrations that run inside the Wire secure messenger — similar to how Slack or Microsoft Teams allow custom apps.

It provides a programmatic interface (API + SDK) for securely interacting with:

  • 🗨️ Wire conversations
  • 👥 Users and teams
  • 💬 Messages and assets (text, files, voice notes, and media)
  • 🔐 End-to-end encryption (MLS-based security layer)

With the Integration SDK, developers can go beyond manual client use — building automated, intelligent, and privacy-preserving apps that extend Wire’s capabilities.

👋 Welcome Developers

This page is dedicated to our developer community — helping you get started quickly with the Wire Integration SDKand begin building secure, powerful apps in minutes.

It’s also your support and collaboration hub, where you can:

  • Share feedback and improvement ideas
  • Report issues or bugs
  • Request new features
  • Connect with other developers building on Wire

Together, we can make Wire’s integration ecosystem stronger, smarter, and more developer-friendly.

🔧 How to create an App?

➡️ Check out the Quickstart guide


⚙️ What Does It Enable?

CapabilityDescription
💬 Send / Receive MessagesApps can post, reply to, and read messages in conversations.
👥 Manage MembersAdd or remove participants, check who’s in a group, and manage admin roles.
📎 Handle AssetsSecurely upload and download attachments, images, or voice notes.
🔔 React to EventsRespond when users send commands, click buttons, or trigger events.
🔐 Stay SecureAll communication leverages Wire’s MLS encryption — no plaintext exposure.
🤖 Create Smart AppsBuild apps like Polls, Reminders, Transcription , Summarisations, or GitHub / Jira / Service now Integrations

🌐 Why Is It Important?

The Integration SDK is the foundation of Wire’s extensibility and automation ecosystem.
It empowers partners, enterprises, and internal teams to create compliant, secure, and end-to-end encrypted tools that integrate seamlessly into Wire — without breaking the security model.

Think of it as Wire’s equivalent of:

  • Slack’s App Framework
  • Microsoft Teams’ Bot Framework
  • Discord’s Bot API

By enabling developers to extend Wire, the SDK transforms Wire from a product into a platform.


🧱 What Does the SDK Include?

The current version of the Integration SDK is the Wire Apps SDK (JVM) — built in Kotlin/Java.
It provides all the core capabilities needed to build secure, server-side applications and bots that interact with Wire.


🧩 Wire Apps

Wire Apps are secure, lightweight extensions built using the Wire Integration SDK.
They run inside the Wire messenger, enabling new features, automations, or integrations — all while preserving Wire’s end-to-end encryption and compliance guarantees.

In simple terms, apps make Wire more powerful and customizable — allowing teams to streamline workflows, connect to external systems, or add intelligent behavior directly in conversations.

🧠 What Can Apps Do?

Wire Apps can:

  • 💬 Interact in chats — send and respond to messages just like a user or bot.
  • ⚙️ Automate workflows — trigger actions based on events (e.g., reminders, approvals, alerts).
  • 🔗 Integrate with external services — connect Wire with tools like Jira, GitHub, or Zendesk.
  • 🔔 Enhance collaboration — create polls, summaries, or meeting follow-ups inside chat.
  • 🧱 Operate securely — every interaction remains fully encrypted, following Wire’s MLS standard.

Check out some of our sample App (Links to Sample apps section)

🚀 Why It’s Exciting for Wire’s Future

The Integration SDK turns Wire into a platform, enabling a growing ecosystem of secure and collaborative extensions.

With the SDK:

  • 🏢 Developers can build secure enterprise workflows directly inside chats.
  • 🤝 Partners can offer privacy-preserving integrations (e.g., Jira, Zendesk, GitHub).
  • 🧠 Enterprises can automate alerts, compliance checks, or internal processes through Wire apps.

This ecosystem approach strengthens Wire’s adoption, developer engagement, and long-term platform potential — all while maintaining the company’s core value of uncompromised security.