Talk:Free Code Chat Apps

more research needed

• what language translations exist for the UI of the different apps?
• how does Keybase work? https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-chat

apps to research and add

• Ferdi https://getferdi.com/ https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi/blob/develop/LICENSE
• Rambox https://rambox.pro https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition/blob/master/LICENSE
• Franz https://www.meetfranz.com/ https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/blob/master/LICENSE
• BigBlueButton
• BitMessage: https://bitmessage.org/ ("MIT" https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/blob/master/LICENSE)
• Cabal: https://cabal.chat/ - experimental P2P chat using some of the underlying protocols used in DAT
• Jitsi Meet: https://meet.jit.si/
• Retroshare: http://retroshare.cc/
• Secushare: https://secushare.org/
• Serval: http://www.servalproject.org/
• Status: https://status.im/get-involved/developers/
• ZeroTalk: https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroTalk - comms client on ZeroNet, maybe more like microblog than chat?

More Tox clients:

• https://tox.chat/clients.html

More XMPP apps:

• https://omemo.top/
• Dino
• Gajim
• Jitsi desktop: https://jitsi.org/downloads/
• Kontalk
• Monal
• Pidgin

possibly more like network layers like GNUnet or IPFS than chat apps but might include them like Retroshare?

• Bridgefy: https://github.com/bridgefy
• Dissent: https://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/papers/ccs10/dissent.pdf
• Elixxir: https://www.elixxir.io/introduction
• Herd: https://people.mpi-sws.org/~druschel/publications/sigcomm15-herd.pdf
• Karaoke: https://vuvuzela.io/static/karaoke.pdf
• Loopix: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00536
• Stadium: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3132783
• Thali: http://thaliproject.org
• Vuvzela: https://vuvuzela.io (AGPL: https://github.com/vuvuzela/vuvuzela/blob/master/LICENSE)