337 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 Privacy focused Texting Add a feature Pidgin is a client that interfaces between many protocols. Tox is merely a protocol. Not the same. Guest • Jul 2017 • 10 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Not the multiprotocol experience and selling point of Pidgin. Simply its own program. Guest • Aug 2017 • 6 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 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It only supports its own protocol, does not support any other protocols like gtalk, AIM etc. Guest • Oct 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Doesn't support multiple chat protocols like pidgin Guest • Oct 2017 Disagree Agree Tox does not support ANY of the protocols Pidgin supports. Guest • Dec 2017 Disagree Agree Highly secure chat client with Android capability. Awesome. Guest • Jun 2015 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
257 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 WebRTC Add a feature
120 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 End-to-end encryption Decentralized 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 Pidgin is a universal IM client. Riot is a Matrix client with integrations providing weak bridging for other protocols. Guest • Nov 2017 Disagree Agree
270 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
78 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 Peer-To-Peer ... 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 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
55 Like Rambox Good alternative? YES NO Free, open source and cross platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Multiple protocols Configurable Skype integration Slack integration Add a feature
153 Like Empathy Good alternative? YES NO Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those... Free Open Source Linux BSD Built-in File transfer Multiple protocols Video calling Add a feature
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
50 Like Gajim Good alternative? YES NO The goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use Jabber client. Gajim works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run. It is released under the... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Xfce Encrypted chat Group chat Multiple languages OTR ... Supports XMPP Tabbed interface Video calling Add a feature
77 Like Psi Good alternative? YES NO Psi is an instant messaging application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X that connects to the free, open XMPP network. Localized versions of Psi are available in... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
39 Like Quassel IRC Good alternative? YES NO Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client based on the Qt4 framework. Distributed means that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
19 Like Bit Chat Good alternative? YES NO Technitium Bit Chat is a secure, peer-to-peer (p2p), open source instant messenger designed to provide end-to-end encryption. It can be used over Internet and private... Free Open Source Windows Linux End-to-end encryption Peer-To-Peer Add a feature
26 Like Psi+ Good alternative? YES NO Psi+ is a development branch of the Psi XMPP client. Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client (Qt, C++) designed for the XMPP power users. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Multiple protocols OTR Video calling Voice Call Add a feature
40 Like Instantbird Alternative? YES NO Instantbird is an instant messaging client based on Mozilla XULRunner and the open source library libpurple created by the software developers of... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Multiple languages Multiple protocols Add a feature Discontinued Site last updated 2013. Site security certificate expired April 2017.
29 Like Spark Good alternative? YES NO Spark is an Open Source, cross-platform IM client optimized for businesses and organizations. It features built-in support for group chat, telephony integration, and... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Group chat Tabbed interface Add a feature
