323 Like Tox Good alternative? YES NO Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD Decentralized Built-in player Encrypted chat Security focused Video calling Ad-free ... Anonymous Secure Filesharing Client side encryption End-to-end encryption Group chat Peer-To-Peer Texting Add a feature Pidgin is a client that interfaces between many protocols. Tox is merely a protocol. Not the same. Guest • Jul 2017 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Not the multiprotocol experience and selling point of Pidgin. Simply its own program. Guest • Aug 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Pidgin is not a chat service, it's an application to connect to other services. Tox is a service itself. In fact, there is a Tox plugin *for* Pidgin. steakwipe • Sep 2017 Disagree Agree It only supports its own protocol, does not support any other protocols like gtalk, AIM etc. Guest • 13 days ago Disagree Agree Highly secure chat client with Android capability. Awesome. Guest • Jun 2015 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
251 Like Jitsi Good alternative? YES NO Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator with full end-to-end encryption that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android BSD End-to-end encryption Group chat iPhone/iPod sync Multiple protocols Multiple Account support OTR ... Video calling Add a feature
104 Like Riot.im Good alternative? YES NO Riot (formerly Vector) is an opensource interoperable app running on Web, iOS and Android. It is built around chat rooms, both public and private and provides messaging... Free Open Source Linux Web Android iPhone iPad Self-Hosted Chrome Safari ... F-Droid Firefox Decentralized End-to-end encryption Matrix.org protocol Built-in File transfer Encrypted chat GitHub integration ... Group chat Group collaboration Self Hosted Feature Server Moderation Server side history Slack integration Team collaboration Video calling Voice Call Add a feature
269 Like Trillian Good alternative? YES NO Trillian is an instant messaging app that works on phones, tablets, and desktops while keeping your chats neatly synchronized between all of them! We think conversation... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone Blackberry iPad Facebook integration Multiple protocols POP3 Support Team collaboration Add a feature Pidgen supports multiple accounts from multiple services, while this is a single service. So instead of allowing you to use all your existing accounts it requires you to use their account. The beauty of Pidgen is that you can connect with your friends using the service they use instead of trying to sell them on the service you want to use. Guest • Jan 2016 • 4 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree Agree
71 Like Ring Good alternative? YES NO Ring is a secure and distributed voice, video and chat communication platform that requires no centralized server and leaves the power of privacy in the hands of the... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Decentralized Distributed End-to-end encryption Video calling Add a feature Pidgin more focused on text and mutiprotocol messaging. While Ring more focused on a distributed non-multiprotocol service. Guest • Jun 2016 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
61 Like ICQ Good alternative? YES NO ICQ is one of the oldest instant messengers. First developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, sold to AOL, sold again and currenly owned by the Russian... Free Mac Windows Linux Web Windows Mobile Android iPhone Java Mobile ... S60 Blackberry Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Kindle Fire No features added Add a feature
102 Like IM+ Good alternative? YES NO Chat everywhere! IM+ is the most widely used mobile IM app! Connect all-in-one to MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, AIM, Jabber, ICQ, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter on ALL... Freemium Web Windows Mobile Android iPhone Java Mobile S60 HP webOS Blackberry ... Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Kindle Fire No features added Add a feature
16 Like Disa Good alternative? YES NO Disa is your new messaging hub. Conversations from different services can seamlessly be joined together, or disbanded within seconds. Free Android Android Tablet Kindle Fire Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Texting Unified messaging Add a feature
25 Like WeeChat Good alternative? YES NO WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client. It runs on many platforms (including Linux, BSD and Mac OS). WeeChat is: - modular: a lightweight core with... Free Open Source Mac Linux Android BSD Xfce Command line interface Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Modular System Multiple protocols Add a feature
20 Like Dialog Messenger Good alternative? YES NO Dialog Messenger is a customized self-hosted platform usable across multi operation systems simultaneously. dialog provides SDK tools for client interface as well as for... Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone Self-Hosted Encrypted chat Privacy protection Reactions Real time collaboration Team work Text chat Add a feature
5 Like FireFloo Communicator Alternative? YES NO FireFloo is an instant messaging communicator combining the open XMPP standard (Jabber, GMail Chat etc.) with the echo protocol for multi-encrypted messaging. Use... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Encrypted chat Add a feature
10 Like Brosix Good alternative? YES NO Brosix is a secure Instant Messaging and collaboration tool, ideal for everyday communication for business and leisure. Two different versions of Brosix give you the... Commercial Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Real time collaboration Share your screen Voice Call Add a feature
6 Like Speek Good alternative? YES NO At Speek we’re dedicated to bringing you super simple conference calling with no dial-ins, pins or downloads. Participants click the Speek link to start or join a call... Freemium Web Android iPhone Windows Phone Group chat Share your screen Add a feature
2 Like Glowing Bear Good alternative? YES NO Glowing Bear is a sleek, modern web frontend that securely connects to a running instance of WeeChat using its built-in relay protocol. It relies on WeeChat to do all... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android Android Tablet Self-Hosted Chrome ... WeeChat Firefox OS Google Play Store Firefox Responsive design Add a feature
4 Like 4talk Messenger Good alternative? YES NO 4talk IM service is a complete IM service for communicating with your phone contacts using your PC in the office or at home. You can transfer files and messages and... Freemium Mac Windows Web Android iPhone No features added Add a feature
