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Gajim

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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.

Gajim roster

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac  Should be installed from source, requires technical knowledge to do so
  • Windows
  • Linux  Provided by distribution
  • BSD  Provided by distribution
  • Xfce
  • Flathub
3.9 / 5 Avg rating (7)
68likes
7comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  OMEMO
  2.  Decentralized
  3.  Supports XMPP
  4.  Audio Calling
  5.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  6.  PGP Encryption
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  End-to-End Encryption
  9.  Xmpp
  10.  Encrypted Chat
  11.  Video Calling
  12.  OTR
  13.  Tabbed interface
  14.  Multiple languages

Gajim News & Activities

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    Shlnk added Gajim as alternative to SHLNK.IN
    9 days ago
  • nu1iess3 and FederalFarmer liked Gajim
    19 days ago
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    AISS added Gajim as alternative to Keychat
    2 months ago
  • SV1987 reviewed Gajim  
    5 months ago

    The UI on the site looks good. It's only for Windows 10+. I can't use it on Windows 8.1. Useless for me now.

  • Brad-Christopher added Gajim as alternative to Retro Aim Server
    7 months ago
  • playmobilmeister liked Gajim
    8 months ago
  • xenmaster updated Gajim
    10 months ago
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    mopsbublic added Gajim as alternative to Ginlo Private
    11 months ago
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    K0RR added Gajim as alternative to Boltgram
    12 months ago
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Gajim information

  • Developed by

    DE flagGajim Team
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9
  • Alternatives

    68 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Gajim, and it has gotten 68 likes

Gajim was added to AlternativeTo by dik on Apr 8, 2009 and this page was last updated Jul 15, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Pacien
Oct 28, 2016
1

This XMPP client supports a lot of useful XMPP extensions such as server side message archiving, video chat, and so on. It also has a bunch of convenient plugins which make it extendable. Almost everything is configurable in the "advanced" section of the preference window.

It is the most complete desktop client available regarding XMPP extensions. However, I found that it is also not very stable and I have to restart it from time to time to resynchronize with the server.

Top Negative Comment
reflector-sensuous343
Nov 7, 2023
0

I have four XMPP accounts that also do VOIP and I've looked long and hard for a client that manages both well and there simply isn't a FOSS application that does so and so Gajim isn't alone. While Gajim does fine with managing multiple chat accounts, its handling of VOIP accounts is clumsy and incomplete. I'm not going to list the VOIP issues I have with it because I've been using it for about a year and I'll be honest I gave up after a few months and so when it comes to VOIP I'm better off using my Cheogram Android app. I keep Gajim around pretty much only for desktop chat, at which it's about the only reasonable option for multiple accounts. It's very strange that XMPP has been around this long and there simply aren't any apps that excel at managing multiple XMPP or VOIP accounts - I suspect the developers aren't managing multiple accounts and so this capability doesn't get any love, which I certainly understand.

Peter S.
Dec 12, 2024
0

The UI on the site looks good. It's only for Windows 10+. I can't use it on Windows 8.1. Useless for me now.

baka nep
Nov 12, 2023
0

despite the slow startup times (15 seconds to load and connect to the server) and half a gigabyte of memory footprint (and around 100MB of RAM usage), it is the best xmpp client I've tried so far. The competition isn't particularly fierce though so it is still way worse than say Discord or Telegram.

bonepyramid
Aug 11, 2022
0

It still maintains support to this day. Updated at a pace that is kinda pleasant to see, and I mean that it was last updated on the 24th of July 2022 at the time of me typing this comment. (8/11/2022) It's a nice option for a XMPP client. Like, really nice. Look into it for yourself if XMPP is what you're looking for with a chat client's support.

igenn
Feb 12, 2017
0

Under W7x64 i had this error at program's start. Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) solved this.

OMEMO is very useful and less annoying as OTR session's failures, like OpenPGP works correctly if you need it.

mohammadghasemi
Jul 25, 2015
0

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What is Gajim?

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.

FEATURES:

  • Tabbed chat window and single window modes
  • Group chat support (with Multi-User Chat protocol), invitation, chat to group chat transformation, minimize group chat to roster
  • Emoticons, avatars, PEP (user activity, mood and tune)
  • Audio / video conferences
  • File transfer, room bookmarks
  • Metacontacts support
  • Trayicon, speller, extended chat history functionalities
  • TLS, GPG and End-To-End encryption (OTR and OMEMO) support (with SSL legacy support)
  • Transport registration support
  • Service discovery including nodes, user search
  • Wikipedia, dictionary and search engine lookup
  • Multiple accounts support
  • DBus capabilities. Read more information
  • XML console
  • Link local (bonjour / zeroconf), BOSH
  • Other features via plugins
  • Gajim is available in 29 languages: Basque, Belarusian, Brasilian, British, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian

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