Tox Alternatives

Apps similar to Tox include Signal, which is free and open source. Other options are Telegram, Element, Mumble and SimpleX Chat. Instant Messengers like Tox are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Android, Windows, iPhone, Linux and Mac.

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  1. Mesh.im icon
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    Technitium Mesh is a secure, anonymous, 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 cryptography and anonymity using Tor network.

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Vector encompasses the ideals of freedom through free and open-source technology, using a "Privacy by Principle" approach. This means that privacy is not a feature or add-on, but the core foundation that Vector is built upon, which is granted and accessible to everyone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  3. signal-cli icon
     2 likes

    signal-cli is a commandline interface for the Signal messenger. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, extracted from the Signal-Android source code.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Java
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  4. Adapt Chat icon
     4 likes

    Open source encrypted group-chat platform focused on privacy and efficiency, featuring Rust-based backend for speed, customizable interface, minimal data collection, real-time messaging, community-driven improvements, and ergonomic design for various use cases.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Toxygen icon
     9 likes

    Toxygen is powerful cross-platform Tox client written in pure Python3.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Antox icon
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    Antox is an Android client for Tox. It aims to bring the full multimedia support Tox offers to your device, although it's still currently in heavy development.

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    • Android
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  7. 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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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • npm
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  8. Kaidan icon
     4 likes

    Kaidan is a simple, user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client providing a modern user interface using Kirigami and QtQuick. The back-end of Kaidan is written in C++ using the QXmpp XMPP client library and Qt 5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • Ubuntu Touch
    • Plasma Mobile
    • Flathub
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  9. Ricochet icon
     22 likes

    Anonymous instant messaging for real privacy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Protox icon
     6 likes

    Qt 5 Tox client for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
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  11. Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over any instant messaging (MSN,Gtalk, Facebook and so on) by providing encryption, authentication, deniability, perfect forward...

    32 Off-the-Record Messaging alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
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