Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad



Gajim is described as 'The goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use XMPP client. Gajim works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run. It is released under the GNU General Public License' and is a popular instant messenger in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Gajim for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, Android and iPhone apps. The best Gajim alternative is Matrix, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gajim are Pidgin, Conversations, Adium and Trillian.



Kaidan is a simple, user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client providing a modern user interface using Kirigami and QtQuick. The back-end of Kaidan is written in C++ using the QXmpp XMPP client library and Qt 5.







monocles chat is a fork of blabber.im and Conversations with some changes, to improve usability.



Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities.


Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It is designed to be a flexible and extensible multi-protocol system suitable for personal and enterprise use.

Miranda New Generation is a successor of a popular multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows - Miranda IM . Very light on system resources and extremely fast.


Tkabber is a Free and Open Source client for the Jabber instant messaging system. Its writen in Tcl/Tk, and works on many platforms (tested on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, MacOS X and Windows 98/2000/XP).









Swift is an elegant, secure, adaptable and intuitive XMPP client, with features that make it suitable for a wide range of use scenarios.

