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View 105 business solutionsBrowse free open source Chat software and projects for Windows and Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Chat software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Pidgin IM
A universal instant messaging (IM) program
See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses. -
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LAN Messenger
An intranet chat application that does not require a server.
LAN Messenger is a p2p chat application for intranet communication and does not require a server. A variety of handy features are supported including notifications, personal and group messaging with encryption, file transfer and message logging. -
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Psi+
Psi+ Project — development branch of Psi XMPP client
Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Previously is was a sort of fork but now just consider it as a space for nightly builds. -
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Psi
Psi IM — Qt-based XMPP client
Psi is cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. There are builds available for MS Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS. -
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Rocket.Chat Community Version
The Leading Open Source Communication Hub | Community Version
Own your Communication with the all-in-one platform made for customer support and team collaboration. Lead with the open-source power: data security and flexibility at your hands. *NOTE: This is our Community Version product page. To know more about all of the possibilities within Rocket.Chat, check our Enterprise product page https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Rocket.Chat/ Rocket.Chat is a reliable communication platform for high-private team chatting and collaboration. Highly scalable, our solution increases business efficiency by bringing messages, video calls, file sharing and all team communication into one place. +10M users trust Rocket.Chat to obtain: - The best cost-benefit enterprise communication platform - A remote-first platform for team collaboration - Data-privacy ensured (GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, you name it) - Seamless adaptation for all kinds of -
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Mumble
Low-latency, high quality voice chat for gamers
Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. It includes game linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their characters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakers won't be audible to other players. -
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phpFreeChat is a free, simple to install, fast and customizable chat that uses by default files for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh and display the chat zone and the nickname zone.
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Freenet front end written in Java. Supports multiple up/downloads, messages, searching and more.
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EiskaltDC++
Program for filesharing using Direct Connect and ADC protocols
EiskaltDC++ is a cross-platform program that uses the Direct Connect and ADC protocols. It is compatible with DC++, FlylinkDC++, LinuxDC++ and other DC clients. EiskaltDC++ also interoperates with all common DC hub software. -
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phpMyChat
Standalone chat system developed in php, mysql and javascript
phpMyChat-Plus is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use multi-room PHP/DB chat. It is currently available for MySQLi, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and ODBC. It supports IRC-like commands, moderators, is available in 24 languages and fully compatible with php7. -
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RetroShare
[WARNING] Project has moved to http://github.com/Retroshare/Retroshare
[IMPORTANT] Retroshare is now distributed on Github. Please go to http://retroshare.net to find the latest releases and sources. RetroShare is a cross-platform, secured and decentralized communication system. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more with family and friends, using OpenPGP to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. -
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Bot Sentry is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to prevent Instant Message (IM) spam. It allows you to ignore IMs unless the sender is in your Buddy List, the sender is in your Allow List, or the sender correctly answers a question you have predefined.
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Kadu is a dynamically evolving instant messenger compatible with the Gadu-Gadu and XMPP protocol. It can be run on all platforms supporting the Qt toolkit.
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"Mibew Messenger" - is unique software allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators. This repo should be treated as an obsolete. For modern version of Mibew Messenger see https://sourceforge.net/projects/mibew/
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Jimm is an ICQ clone for mobile devices, such as celluluar phones. It is written in Java 2 Micro Edition (MIDP) and uses protocol version 8. Jimm is not affiliated with or endorsed by ICQ, Inc.
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Mibew Messenger is an open-source live support application allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators.
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WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the internet, independant of local network organization.
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EZ Intranet Messenger is designed to work within a LAN segment, without the presence of centralized server. Its primary goal is to provide instant messaging service, along with online status notification, file transmission, and real time public chat.
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GoldBug - Encrypted Communications
Chat Messenger. E-Mail-Client. Websearch. Filetransfer.
GoldBug is a decentralized & secure communication suite that offers an integrated e-mail client, an instant messenger & a file transfer. Also included is an URL-RSS-DB & a p2p web search. Current vers. w/ McEliece Algorithm. GoldBug has been 2013 - 2023 ten years just another Graphical User Interface of the Spot-On Encryption Suite. Main GUI features: Minimal & colorful Interface with Tabs in the East. Microsoft & Qt MinGW deprecated Win32 & for Compiling: ● https://sourceforge.net/p/goldbug/wiki/compiling As Spot-On implemented the minimal GB-concept & Nuvola Icons, GoldBug has now been fully integrated into Spot-On Win64: Just choose Tabs at East & Mini-View in Options - w/ Nuvola Icons of course! Voilá! & Many Thanks, Pro-Files can be found archived at ● current source: https://github.com/textbrowser/spot-on ● EN Manual: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3749435065 ● DE: https://compendio.github.io/goldbug-manual-de/ ● Study: https://www.amazon.com/asin/dp/3750408971 -
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Mazen's PHP Chat is a completely PHP4 based Chatsystem. Like other Chatsystems it doesn't use meta-refreshes to pull the chatlines from a MySQL-Server, it does a kind of server-push which continuously streams the Chat-Messages tp the client-browser.
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Nicotine+ is a fork of Hyriand's Soulseek PyGTK2 client, Nicotine. Fixing bugs, adding new features, and keeping up-to-date with Soulseek's protocol is the goal of this project. The most popular Multi-OS Soulseek client is getting an upgrade.
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AJAX Chat - Open Source Web Chat
Fully customizable web chat created using AJAX.
MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance. -
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Smoke Crypto Chat Messenger for Android
Smoke: Android Crypto Chat Messenger
Smoke is an encrypting chat messenger for Android written in Java. Please read the Web site for more information: https://textbrowser.github.io/smoke/ (original, current) https://www.amazon.com/dp/3752691999/ https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io/ (old, third party archive) Smoke App OPE - Open Personal Encryption Download Android APK Installer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/smokeappope/files/ Smoke Source: https://github.com/textbrowser/smoke SmokeStack Source: https://github.com/textbrowser/smokestack (Android) https://github.com/textbrowser/spot-on (Desktop) Smoke appears to be one of the first projects with an open source mobile encrypting chat server., an decentralized and easily-configurable chat server. Smoke is known as the first mobile McEliece Messenger: https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/english/mceliece-messaging-smoke-crypto-chat-the-first-mobile-mceliece-messenger-published-as-a-stable-prototype-worldwide-279847.html -
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emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version.
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XNap is a Java plugin-based peer-to-peer (P2P) framework and client including an OpenNap plugin with multiple server support, as well as Gnutella, giFT (OpenFT), IRC, ICQ and an OverNet plugin. XNap provides resuming, chat, hotlist and a media library.