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Mumble

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Mumble was the first and is the most successful and wide spread free and open source software for VoIP. It was the first VoIP software to provide low-latency audio suitable for gaming, and at the same time was a pioneer in high audio quality.

Mumble 1.2.3 Release Candidate – some users in different channels

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • iPhone  The iOS app is unmaintained; last update in 2017.
  • BSD
  • iPad  The iOS app is unmaintained; last update in 2017.
  • Self-Hosted
  • PortableApps.com
  • Snapcraft
  • Flathub
4.1 / 5 Avg rating (10)
472likes
12comments

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Gaming-focused

Features

  1.  Voice Chat
  2.  Group Voice Chat
  3.  Encrypted Chat
  4.  In-Game Overlay
  5.  Self-Hostable decentralized P2P network
  6.  Server Management
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  Portable
  9.  Positional audio
  10.  Low Latency
  11.  Dedicated Server Hosting
  12.  Cross-Platform
  13.  3D voice
  14.  Channel manager
  15.  Push to talk
  16.  Chat Bot
  17.  Development API

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  • Opensourcelover and nu1iess3 liked Mumble
    28 days ago
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    2 months ago
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    2 months ago
  • sweetemberxv, asterryplace and FreeAsInDom liked Mumble
    2 months ago
  • braky updated Mumble
    4 months ago
  • skapytek123 liked Mumble
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    AISS added Mumble as alternative to 0xchat
    4 months ago
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Mumble information

  • Developed by

    DE flagThe Mumble Developers
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.1
  • Alternatives

    50 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Apple AppStore

  •   Updated Sep 13, 2017
  •   3.18 avg rating
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GitHub repository

  •  6,991 Stars
  •  1,195 Forks
  •  456 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 20, 2025 
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Our users have written 12 comments and reviews about Mumble, and it has gotten 472 likes

Mumble was added to AlternativeTo by jenocin on Nov 25, 2009 and this page was last updated Feb 21, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Rob Gibson
Mar 30, 2019
5

Mumble isn't discontinued. There is major development happening to bring a major new version to a stable release. The Guthub repository for this project has activity as of yesterday, March 29, 2019.

I like the fact that I can self-host the application if I want major privacy or I can purchase hosting from someone else.

Gwyneth Llewelyn
Jun 8, 2021

Indeed, it continues to be actively developed. It's June 8th, 2021, and the last commit was yesterday. Issues on GitHub are being posted, replied to, and even closed (after being addressed). I'd venture to say that it is anything but discontinued, rather the contrary!

Also, people continue to be coming up with new tools, plugins, and so forth. For instance, on the server side (where you have to install murmurto connect all the Mumble clients), in spite of the official wiki listing many side-projects as being 'discontinued', they're actually being actively developed! Take a look at Grumble (Murmur server rewritten in Go) or uMurmur (a tiny, Qt-less version of Murmur, written in C without the overhead, designed for embedded systems with a small footprint). Both are listed as 'discontinued', or 'incomplete', but that's not correct either; they might just be lagging in certain more complex features which might not be completely developed (or not at all — yet!).

That said, it seems that the Mumble/Murmur community continues to be as committed to this FOSS VoIP platform in 2021 as they were in 2010.

Top Negative Comment
pekatvdmitriypekar
Mar 30, 2023
2

they have completely switched to a proprietary license

Tritonio
Sep 4, 2023
1

It's still usable but it gets buggier and buggier for years now. At least on Linux.

Guest
May 28, 2023
0

It was a great app/server if you needed low-latency while keeping audio quality high.

Unfortunately, it looks like development of their server on Linux has halted (at time of writing, 1.5x is available on Windows/OSx yet their linux server is still stuck in the 1.3x branch).

nm17
Oct 8, 2020
3

Really great VOIP app with the lowest latency out there. As for the voice quality, it uses the same codex as TeamSpeak, so it's really not practical to compare them in that department.

Also, it's important to talk about the persistent chat functionality or lack thereof. I really don't think that Mumble will benefit from having a proper chat system in place, since the majority of its users use it for the ability to provide low latency voice comms, not for the ability to chat with each other, since users probably already have an ability to do so using other platforms (and probably even better). It would be nice to have a chat history in Mumble, but I don't think that it will benefit a lot of people.

As for security and privacy, it is the best app that you can find out there. With transparent and publicly available code, it's the only thing that you can use with a peace of mind that you are in control of your data and where it goes. The ACL's in this app are incredible, with all the fine tuning that you can possibly think of all available out of the box.

The clients for this app are awesome, working perfectly without any crashes or menus that you don't understand because you didn't read the docs enough. It's unofficial Android client is fine, although don't expect the same latency as on PC (it's on average about 100 or so ms higher, but don't take my word on that).

Overall, the ability to setup servers without any licensing bullshit, changing weird settings or dealing with proprietary software is what we need in every VOIP app.

DL300
May 23, 2020
-2

Sadly there's not much point to a text chat app that clears all record of text between logins.

As far as voice goes, Mumble works on par with Teamspeak - just it's totally useless for literally anything else. This is not an alternative, it is a significant downgrade.

somegirlfromit
Oct 13, 2019
-3

Last major update 2016-12-23, development has moved elsewhere

nm17
Oct 8, 2020

Not true since a long time, last commit yesterday. The devs are really active. https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble

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What is Mumble?

Mumble was the first and is the most successful and wide spread free and open source software for VoIP. It was the first VoIP software to provide low-latency audio suitable for gaming, and at the same time was a pioneer in high audio quality.

The in-game overlay shows users and who is talking in-game.

Mumble provides positional audio for certain games, meaning you can hear the people you play with from the direction they stand in in-game, and louder the closer they are (configurable).

Through additional scripting using the Ice protocol for communication, (e.g.) webinterfaces can be used for easier server management.

Combining the scripting interface with the positional audio data can switch users to teams channels or other useful automation.

An official iPhone client is available as well. For Android, no official client is provided, a but the community published a free client.

Mumble is continued to be maintained and developed by a small core team as well as the open community as a whole.