RetroShare Alternatives and Similar Software

Alternatives to RetroShare for Windows, Linux, Mac, Web, BSD and more. Filter by license to discover only free or Open Source alternatives. This list contains a total of 25+ apps similar to RetroShare.

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Discord

All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for TeamSpeak servers and hassling with Skype. Simplify your life. You'll never go back.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone BSD iPad FreeBSD
Voice Call Share your screen Ad-free Chat Bot ... Text chat Video calling Group chat Push to talk Custom roles Encrypted chat Group Voice Chat Low Latency Multi Channel Public groups chat Reactions Voice channels Camera capturing Channel manager Community based Custom Smileys Dedicated Server Hosting Development API Direct Messaging Electron based Free voice/text servers Gaming-focused In-app server browser In-Game Overlay Integrated File Sharing Interface Overlay Low bandwidth usage Low memory usage Night mode/Dark Theme Permission system Persistent Chat Photo Sharing Positional audio Responsive design Sign on to Access All Platforms Single Sign-On Team Collaboration Webcam overlays Youtube Gaming Integration Add a feature

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Signal

TextSecure and RedPhone have been merged to create Signal! Using Signal, you can communicate instantly while avoiding SMS fees, create groups so that you can chat in real time with all your friends at once, and share media or attachments all with complete privacy. The server never has access to any of your communication and never stores any of your data. * Say Anything - Send high-quality group, text, picture, and video messages, all without SMS and MMS fees.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad Chrome Ubuntu Touch
Apps with End-to-End Encryption Encrypted chat Security focused Texting ... Video calling Encrypted calls Encrypted Connection Self destructing messages Video calling Voice Call Color coding Encrypted VoIP calls Forward Secrecy Group chat Integrated File Sharing Mobile friendly Night mode/Dark Theme Works Offline Protected by Password Based on phone number Privacy focused Private messaging File Sending Voice messages Add a feature

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Tox

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. Tox is built with the idea that you can keep up with friends and family without having your privacy violated. While other big-name services require you to pay to unlock features, Tox is free in both price, and in liberty. That is, you’re free to do whatever you wish with Tox.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet BSD
Decentralized Encrypted chat Peer-To-Peer Privacy focused ... Built-in player Apps with End-to-End Encryption Share your screen Security focused Video calling Ad-free Anonymity Anonymous Secure Filesharing Client side encryption Group chat Peer-To-Peer Point-to-point encryption Texting Video calling Voice Call Add a feature

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Deluge

Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, Unix and Windows. It is written in python, uses libtorrent (rasterbar) at its core and GTK for the main user interface along with web and console interfaces for advanced client/server facility. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge's functionality is available in the form of plugins. Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive.
- Retroshare is a whole multiple chat/mail/group program while Deluge's main purpose is to download torrents. Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Not the same scope as RetroShare! Guest • Jul 2018
- torrent client only, not p2p or edonkey. altersoft • Jan 2017
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD libtorrent ... Python
Ad-free Ad-free Built-in Torrent client Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Portable Add a feature

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Riot.im

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, filesharing, voice and video conferencing (beta on Android and web), integrations to tools like GitHub, Jira, Jenkins and much more soon. Vector is built on the Matrix.org open standard which provides bridges to other systems such as Slack, IRC and a lot more soon.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted Chrome Safari F-Droid Firefox
Apps with End-to-End Encryption Decentralized Group chat Matrix.org protocol ... Video calling Voice Call Community based Custom widgets DRM Free Encrypted chat GitHub integration Group collaboration Integrated File Sharing MarkDown support File Sending Server Moderation Server side history Slack integration Team Collaboration Video calling Add a feature

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Jami

Ring positions itself as a potential free Skype replacement Open Source and cross-platform. Ring gives you a full control over your communications and an unmatched level of privacy. SIP-compatible softphone and SIP-based instant messenger for Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X and Android. Communicate in multiple ways: • A telephone: a simple tool to connect, communicate and share. • A teleconferencing tool: easily join calls to create conferences with multiple participants.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone
Decentralized Distributed Apps with End-to-End Encryption Peer-To-Peer ... Share your screen Video calling Add a feature

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FilePizza

Using WebRTC, FilePizza eliminates the initial upload step required by other web-based file sharing services. When senders initialize a transfer, they receive a "tempalink" they can distribute to recipients. Upon visiting this link, recipients' browsers connect directly to the sender’s browser and may begin downloading the selected file. Because data is never stored in an intermediary server, the transfer is fast, private, and secure.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted
Peer-To-Peer Secure File Sharing WebRTC Add a feature

50 Like
Soulseek

Soulseek® is a unique ad-free, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application. One of the things that makes Soulseek® unique is our community and community-related features. Based on peer-to-peer technology, virtual rooms allow you to meet people with the same interests, share information, and chat freely using real-time messages in public or private. Soulseek®, with its built-in people matching system, is a great way to make new friends and expand your mind!

Free Mac Windows Linux
Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

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rTorrent

rtorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library. The client and library is written in C++ with emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to those found in GUI based clients in an ncurses client.

Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD
Command Line support Add a feature

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eMule

eMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. Connects to the eDonkey network and the Kad network.
- Discontinued The official website is no longer updated, but the forum is still active. Last official version, 0.50b Beta1, was released in March 2015 by SomeSupport. As of August 2017, an unofficial release is still developed by fox88/irwir and can be downloaded from GitHub.
Free Open Source Windows
Support for eD2K/eDonkey protocol Integrated Search Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

128 Like
Tribler

Tribler is an application that enables its users to find, enjoy and share content. With content we mean video, audio, pictures, and much more. Tribler has three goals in helping you, the user: find, consume and share content. We aim to show just how easy file-sharing can be. We now added anti-spam measures using channels. Search box with suggestions Anti-spam features Video-on-demand support Fully distributed
- Warning Host's IP can be used as exit nodes: it means that if some other user downloads something illegal, you could be prosecuted because your IP appears! Even on Tribler official website, a Disclaimer states: "Do not put yourself in danger. Our anonymity is not yet mature. Tribler does not protect you against spooks and government agencies."
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Decentralized Distributed Integrated File Sharing Integrated Search ... Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

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BiglyBT

BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, bittorrent client based on the Azureus open source project, now Vuze . Features: Swarm merging across torrents that share the common files. BiglyBT detects similar files in multiple torrents automatically, and merges swarms to download files faster and, if possible, fix incomplete torrents. Rate limiting to limit rates globally, by download, by tag, peer-set (e.g.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD
i2P integration Swarm Merging Ad-free Built-in Media converter ... Built-in player Support for DLNA Integrated Chat Meta-Search Media Streaming Support for TOR Support for WebTorrent Add a feature

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GNUnet

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. Anonymity is provided by making messages originating from a peer indistinguishable from messages that the peer is routing. All peers act as routers and use link-encrypted connections with stable bandwidth utilization to communicate with each other.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Decentralized Distributed Mesh network Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

54 Like
Bitmessage

Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Encrypted chat Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

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Halite

Halite (named after the mineral) is a C++ BitTorrent client based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. The program also relies heavily on the Boost libraries.
- Discontinued Last version was released on 19/12/2015, as of 2017 app is still stable and working.
Free Open Source Windows libtorrent
No features added Add a feature

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Shareaza

Shareaza is the most luxurious and sophisticated file sharing system you'll find. It can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer networks, including EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2. Not only that, but Shareaza is completely FREE and won't show any annoying ads or pop-ups. It won't install any unwanted third party programs that can wreak havoc with your computer. No spyware, no registration, no "paid version".

Free Open Source Windows
Support for Multiple protocols BitTorrent support Built-in player Support for eD2K/eDonkey protocol ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Integrated Chat Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

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aMule

aMule is an opensource alternative to eMule : aMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with the EDonkey network and the Kad Network, offering similar features to eMule and adding others such as GeoIP (country flags). It was forked from the xMule source code on August 18, 2003, which itself is a fork of the lMule project, which was the first attempt to bring the eMule client to Linux.
- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 2.3.2, released in September 2016, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Support for eD2K/eDonkey protocol Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

70 Like
Onionshare

OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size with someone. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor hidden service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download the file. It doesn't require setting up a server on the internet somewhere or using a third party filesharing service. You host the file on your own computer and use a Tor hidden service to make it temporarily accessible over the internet.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Tor Browser Bundle
Anonymity Add a feature

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Ricochet

Anonymous instant messaging for real privacy.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Anonymity Apps with End-to-End Encryption Peer-To-Peer Serverless Add a feature

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Twister

twister is the fully decentralized P2P (Peer-to-peer) microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

22 Like
KTorrent

KTorrent is a bittorrent application for KDE Plasma which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol. It enables you to run multiple torrents at the same time and comes with extended features to make it a full-featured client for BitTorrent. KTorrent offers advanced configuration options, plenty of features and a wealth of useful plugins, like the Search plugin which will allow you to search for torrents directly from within KTorrent.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

83 Like
Demonsaw

Demonsaw is a new type of information sharing application that allows you to share your files securely. It's the next leap in the evolution of a free Internet, and the debut of social cryptography. Demonsaw is designed to protect your anonymity and hide what you're sharing. Your IP address is never revealed to the world. Share whatever you want, with whomever you want, without fear.

Free Mac Windows Linux
Decentralized Anonymity Add a feature

18 Like
Bit Chat

Technitium Bit Chat is a secure, peer-to-peer (p2p), open source instant messenger designed to provide end-to-end encryption. Primary aim of developing this instant messenger is to provide privacy which is achieved using strong cryptography. It can be used over Internet and private LAN networks for instant messaging and file transfer.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Apps with End-to-End Encryption Peer-To-Peer Add a feature

20 Like
DC++

DC++ is an open source client for Windows for the Direct Connect protocol. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the internet without restrictions or limits. The client is completely free of advertisements and has a nice, easy to use interface. Firewall and router support is integrated and its easy and convenient to use functionality like multi-hub connections, auto connections and resuming of downloads.

Free Open Source Windows
Resume interrupted downloads Add a feature

34 Like
Torchat

TorChat is a peer to peer instant messenger with a completely decentralized design, built on top of Tor's location hidden services, giving you extremely strong anonymity while being very easy to use without the need to install or configure anything.
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed since 2014. Last version, 0.9.9.553, released in September 2012, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Anonymity Decentralized Peer-To-Peer Portable ... Security focused Add a feature

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