Skype 196 alternatives
An instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services.
Apps for all platforms with any license
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Pidgin 106 alternatives
Pidgin is an easy to use, multi-protocol chat client client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP, and more chat networks all at once.
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Telegram 179 alternatives
Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple and free. It is like SMS, but more powerful. .
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WhatsApp Messenger 191 alternatives
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS.
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FreezeCrowd 30 alternatives
FreezeCrowd is a social network that connects people in group photos. The motto is to break the ice and connect with your friends through the photos.
- Warning The site freezecrowd.com has a bad reputation on WOT. You can read the comments about spam at https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/freezecrowd.com
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Slack 113 alternatives
Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.
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Adium 72 alternatives
Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS Xs Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team.
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Tox 95 alternatives
Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely.
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Signal 112 alternatives
TextSecure and RedPhone have been merged to create Signal! Using Signal, you can communicate instantly while avoiding SMS fees, create groups so that you can chat in real time with all your friends at once, and share media or...
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Trillian 125 alternatives
Trillian is an instant messaging app that works on phones, tablets, and desktops while keeping your chats neatly synchronized between all of them! We think conversation should be easily shared between all of your devices, not trapped as...
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Jitsi 109 alternatives
Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator with full end-to-end encryption that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, GTalk/Hangouts extensions, as well as OTR, ZRTP...
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Miranda IM 68 alternatives
Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols.
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Digsby 49 alternatives
Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.
- Discontinued The application is not developed actively anymore. The source code has been made open for the community to take over but that didn't make any impact: https://github.com/ifwe/digsby | https://web.archive.org/web/20121205002331/http://blog.digsby.com/archives/1969/
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Imo 93 alternatives
Message and video chat with your friends and family for free.
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Google Voice and Video Chat 34 alternatives
With this plugin by Google, you can now use voice and video capabilities in your Gmail, iGoogle and orkut chat. It lets you have an actual conversation with someone, or even chat face to face over video.
- Discontinued It's now http://alternativeto.net/software/google-hangouts/
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Facebook Messenger 160 alternatives
Facebook Messenger is a faster way to message. Reach friends right on their phones, get and send messages fast, message everyone at once and more.
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eM Client 59 alternatives
eM Client is a full featured e-mail client with a modern and easy to use interface. eM Client also offers calendar, tasks, contacts and chat.
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HexChat 62 alternatives
HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat for Linux , but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems.
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Empathy 130 alternatives
Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.
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TeamSpeak 25 alternatives
TeamSpeak is a proprietary Voice over IP software that allows users to speak on a chat channel with other users, much like a telephone conference call. A TeamSpeak user will often wear a headset with an integrated microphone.
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Glip 149 alternatives
Glip is instant messaging for teams and businesses to communicate and get work done at the same time. In Glip you work where your conversations are, so you always know what your team is doing and what needs to get done next.
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Meebo 41 alternatives
Meebo is integrated, all-in-one instant messaging (IM client) that connects you with your friends everywhere.
- Discontinued Meebo was acquired by Google on June 4, 2012.
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Windows Live Messenger 45 alternatives
With Live Messenger you can chat online instantly in real time with friends, family and colleagues. Its faster than e-mail, more discreet than a phone call.
- Discontinued Messenger has moved to http://alternativeto.net/software/skype and is no longer available since April 2013.
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Unison 44 alternatives
Unison is for business: a fast messenger and group collaboration tool that lets teams work much more quickly together, especially across different locations and time zones. It syncs instantly across your smartphone, tablet, or computer.
- Discontinued Unison was closed to focus on a new team chat app, FreshTeam.
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IM+ 110 alternatives
Chat everywhere! IM+ is the most widely used mobile IM app! Connect all-in-one to MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, AIM, Jabber, ICQ, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter on ALL popular mobile platforms.
