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Dino

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Dino is a modern open-source chat client for the desktop. It focuses on providing a clean and reliable Jabber/XMPP experience while having your privacy in mind. Using GTK+/Vala.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac  Should be installed from source, technical knowledge required
  • Linux  Provided by distribution
  • BSD  Provided by distribution
  • Flathub
4.5 / 5 Avg rating (4)
23likes
3comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Clean design

Features

  1. XMPP icon  Supports XMPP
  2.  Encrypted Chat
  3.  End-to-End Encryption
  4.  OMEMO
  5.  Federated
  6.  Community-based
  7.  Multiple Account support
  8.  Decentralized
  9.  OpenPGP
  10.  Ad-free
  11.  Real time collaboration
  12.  File Sending
  13.  Team Messaging
  14.  Server side history
  15.  Public groups chat
  16.  Private Groups
  17.  User Profiles
  18.  Read receipts
  19.  Text messaging
  20.  Per-room avatars
  21.  Client side encryption
  22.  Streamlined interface
  23.  Typing notifications
  24.  Image Sharing
  25.  Message redaction
  26.  Avatar
  27.  Peer-To-Peer
  28.  Multiple languages

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    POX added Dino as alternative to Quiet Chat
    8 days ago
  • braky liked Dino
    28 days ago
  • braky thinks OpenPGP is a important feature of Dino
    28 days ago
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    POX added Dino as alternative to Zenzap
    about 1 month ago
  • App icon
    POX added Dino as alternative to PeerSuite
    about 1 month ago
  • braky updated Dino
    2 months ago
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    ralaud added Dino as alternative to Sideband
    4 months ago
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    ralaud added Dino as alternative to Meshchat
    4 months ago
  • App icon
    AISS added Dino as alternative to 0xchat
    4 months ago
  • App icon
    AISS added Dino as alternative to Keychat
    4 months ago
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Dino information

  • Developed by

    DE flagDino Team
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.5
  • Alternatives

    72 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Social & CommunicationsFile SharingSecurity & Privacy

GitHub repository

  •  2,304 Stars
  •  255 Forks
  •  582 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 14, 2025 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Dino, and it has gotten 23 likes

Dino was added to AlternativeTo by haeckle on Aug 25, 2017 and this page was last updated Apr 19, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
alquimista
Jan 2, 2019
0

Decentralized. Best glossy UI for people coming from services like Slack. Easy to use with encryption like OMEMO and OpenPGP.

reflector-sensuous343
Oct 28, 2023
0

I used Dino for awhile but the achilles heel for me was it's lack of organization and transparency for multiple accounts. I have 4 accounts open at a time and within Dino, there's no way to see what account a message is being sent to. There's no concept of 'workspaces' to switch between account identities and to see all messages tied to a particular account - it's all dumped into one workspace. It's strange that this app allows multiple accounts but no features to manage multiple accounts.

metaphil
Apr 18, 2021
-1

easy set-up, intuitive use

What is Dino?

Dino. Communicating happiness.

Dino is a modern open-source chat client for the desktop. It focuses on providing a clean and reliable Jabber/XMPP experience while having your privacy in mind.

Encryption. Stay private.

Dino is secure by default: Your chats never leave your computer unencrypted. Once you enabled end-to-end encryption via OMEMO or OpenPGP, only you and your chat partners can read your messages, but not your server administrator or anyone else. If you want to increase your privacy, Dino allows you to disable read and typing notifications – globally or only for specific contacts.

Free Software. Check out the source code.

Being free and open-source software, anyone can inspect and modify Dino. This means that you don't have to trust a single company or development team. Dino is developed on GitHub by an open community where everyone can contribute – by creating a bug report, translating Dino into their language or making a pull request.

Decentralization. Powered by the people.

Dino is build on the XMPP protocol, an internet standard for decentralized communication – the instant messaging pendant to email. Decentralization means you don't have to rely on a single provider or company, instead you can use a federated world-wide infrastructure. You can even host your own server!

XMPP – A decentralized messaging protocol

XMPP is an open standard for communication, mainly used for instant messaging. It is a secure battle-tested protocol developed by an independent standards organization. Features

The "X" in XMPP stands for "Extensible", which means the core protocol is updated and extended with more features through a transparent process at the non-profit XMPP Standards Foundation every now and then. This results in some clients not implementing every feature of XMPP; for example, a typical instant messaging client won't implement Internet-of-Things functionality. Dino is compliant with the official XMPP Compliance Suites 2016.

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