1405 Like Pidgin Good alternative? YES NO Pidgin is an easy to use, multi-protocol chat client client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP, and more chat networks all at once. It has built-in... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Xfce Multiple protocols Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple protocols Multiple languages Multiple Account support Multiple protocols support ... Video calling Voice Call Add a feature Same offer without publicity/adds, more stability than trillian (time to reconfigure each account is the past now) Guest • May 2017 Disagree Agree
319 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
269 Like Signal Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Chrome End-to-end encryption Texting Video calling Built-in File transfer Color coding Encrypted calls ... Encrypted chat Encrypted Connection Forward Secrecy Group chat Works offline too Protected by Password Based on phone number Self destructing messages Video calling Voice messages Add a feature
248 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
97 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 Matrix.org protocol Built-in File transfer Decentralized Encrypted chat GitHub integration ... Group chat Group collaboration Server Moderation Server side history Slack integration Team collaboration Video calling Voice Call Add a feature
49 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 Telegram Add a feature
328 Like Adium Good alternative? YES NO Adium is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X, written using Mac OS Xs Cocoa API, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium... Free Open Source Mac Customizable Multiple languages Multiple protocols OTR Tabbed interface Support for Themes Add a feature
146 Like Glip Good alternative? YES NO Glip is instant messaging for teams and businesses to communicate and get work done at the same time. In Glip you work where your conversations are, so you always know... Freemium Mac Windows Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Social feed Bitbucket Integration Box.com integration Built-in File Manager Calendar view Dropbox integration ... GitHub integration Google Drive integration Group chat Group collaboration Mailchimp integration Meeting notes Onedrive integration Real time collaboration Recurring tasks Share your screen Shared calendars Team collaboration Team work Trello integration Zapier integration Zendesk 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
34 Like Conversations Good alternative? YES NO Conversations is a privacy focused, open source XMPP Texting [Jabber] client for Android 4.0+ smart phones with wife-approved easy encryption [OTR, OMEMO, or GPG]. ... Free Open Source Android Android Tablet Picture sharing Decentralized Encrypted chat End-to-end encryption Group chat OTR ... Self destructing messages Add a feature
221 Like Miranda IM Good alternative? YES NO Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Multiple protocols Add a feature
40 Like Miranda NG Good alternative? YES NO Miranda New Generation is a successor of a popular multi-protocol instant messaging client for Windows - Miranda IM . Very light on system resources and extremely fast. Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Multiple languages Add a feature
219 Like Digsby Good alternative? YES NO Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list. Its... Free Open Source Windows Multiple protocols Add a feature Discontinued The application is not developed actively anymore. The source code has been made open for the community to take over but that didn't make any impact: https://github.com/ifwe/digsby | https://web.archive.org/web/20121205002331/http://blog.digsby.com/archives/1969/
48 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 Tabbed interface Video calling Add a feature
