Gajim

Fully-featured XMPP chat client Source

Description

Gajim aims to be an easy to use and fully-featured XMPP client. Just chat with your friends or family, easily share pictures and thoughts or discuss the news with your groups.

Chat securely with End-to-End encryption via OMEMO or OpenPGP.

Gajim integrates well with your other devices: simply continue conversations on your mobile device.

Features:

Never miss a message, keep all your chat clients synchronized
Invite friends to group chats or join one
Easily send pictures, videos or other files to friends and groups
Chat securely with End-to-End encryption via OMEMO or OpenPGP
Use your favorite emoticons, set your own profile picture
Keep and manage all your chat history
Organize your chats with workspaces
Automatic spell-checking for your messages
Connect to other Messengers via Transports (Facebook, IRC, ...)
Lookup things on Wikipedia, dictionaries or other search engines directly from the chat window
Set your activity or tune to show your friends how you are feeling
Support for multiple accounts
XML console to see what's happening on the protocol layer
Support for service discovery including nodes and search for users
Even more features via plugins

Source

Notice

Used to be great after scale-to-fit pre Gajim 1.4.0 and single window mode, now it’s ... just check the screenshot (with scale-to-fit enabled) below.

Project links:

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Screenshots

Rating

Mobile Fit: 2

Many parts of the app are not usable with touch input on small screens, even with scale-to-fit org.gajim.Gajim on

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2016-12-08.

The last known commit happened on 2025-03-31.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-05-09

Packaging

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Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gajim.Gajim.flatpakref

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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By Service: XMPP

By Category: chat

By FreeDesktop-(Additional-)Category: Chat InstantMessaging Network

Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-only Metadata: CC-BY-SA-3.0

Frameworks: GTK3

Programming languages: Python

Build system: setup.py

AppStream Metadata URL: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/raw/master/data/org.gajim.Gajim.metainfo.xml.in