Platforms
- Android


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.


Converse is a messaging app for decentralized, secure, end-to-end encrypted conversations. Built on the XMTP network, Converse lets you own your conversations and take them anywhere whenever you want, ensuring your most important messages—the ones you never want to lose or be...



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Fully open source instant messaging server and clients. No proprietary components or non-free dependencies. Backend in pure Go (GPL 3.0), with a command-line administration tool in python + gRPC. Clients for Android, iPhone, and Web - ReactJS (all licensed under Apache 2.0).




At this point in the digital world, our personal digital metadata – not just our messages, but data about who talks to whom, when, and where – has been marketed, auctioned, and monetized hundreds of thousands of times over.



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Toxic is a client with an ncurses interface, written entirely in C. It has support for all basic features, as well as 1-on-1 audio/video chats, and is capable of working on bare-bones systems that lack graphical interfaces.




It uses the Tox protocol which is Peer to Peer, it will have a higher battery usage than other Messenger apps.

