Open Source Mumble AlternativesTop Group & Encrypted Chat Apps like Mumble

The best open source alternative to Mumble is Element. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Element or Tox. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Mumble and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Mumble are Mirotalk, Spacebar, Mezon and Briefing.

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  1. Element icon
     820 likes

    Provides secure collaboration with end-to-end encryption, supporting chat, voice, and video calls. Available on all major platforms, it enables digital sovereignty with a decentralized design and interoperability through bridges to systems like Slack and Teams. Includes enterprise-grade SaaS.

    330 Element alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Snapcraft
    • Matrix.org
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Cloudron
     
  2. Tox icon
     569 likes

    With the rise of widespread government monitoring programs, Tox is an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and loved ones without anyone else listening in.

    220 Tox alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • F-Droid
     
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  3. Spacebar icon
     25 likes

    Open source group chat, voice, and video platform with self-hostable private servers, Discord compatibility, extensible plugin and theme system, end-to-end encryption, support for multiple instances, and community-driven development offering high flexibility.

    32 Spacebar alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Mezon icon
     7 likes

    The best Discord alternative. Mezon is a Live, Work, and Play platform. It’s perfect for gaming and chilling with friends, or even building a global community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Briefing icon
     29 likes

    The preservation of privacy is the main driver for this project. Secure technologies, such as WebRTC, are used to establish a direct connection between the participants. The website that provides the web application and mediates the communication stores as little data as...

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • npm
     
  6. VoltChat icon
     2 likes

    An ad-free, theme-able, chatting platform built for privacy and security while offering a huge feature set including bot support, moderation, voice calls, screen sharing, video, embeds and many other features, it's built to be reliable and self-hosted while still allowing...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. Mumla icon
     5 likes

    Mumla is an open source Mumble voice chat client for Android 4.0+

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    • Mumble
     
  8.  5 likes

    uMurmur is a minimalistic Mumble server primarily targeted to run on embedded computers, like routers, with an open OS like e.g. OpenWRT.

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    • Linux
     
  9. Conduit is a simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix. Conduit is an alternative to Synapse and tries to be lightweight and easy to install, but it is still in development.

    240 Conduit Chat Server alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Docker
    • Docker Hub
     
  10. This simple Matrix client written in Python allows you to send and receive messages and files, verify other devices, and interact with your Matrix account or other Matrix users in many ways. You use it from the terminal (CLI) or integrate it into other simple Python programs.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
    • Docker Hub
    • Python
    • Nix Package Manager
     
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