Toxic
Terminal-based client for the Tox messaging network
Toxic is a console client for the peer-to-peer, encrypted Tox communication protocol. It provides text chat, file transfer, and audio calls from the terminal with no central servers.
Key features
- Terminal-based Tox client
- Fully peer-to-peer
- Encrypted chat and calls
- File transfer support
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Active community (1.3k GitHub stars)
- Written in C
- Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM
Trade-offs
- Terminal UI only
- No offline messaging
Toxic replaces
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- Toxic vs Quicksy Bridge
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- Toxic vs Jami Server Bridge
- Toxic vs Tigase XMPP Server
- Toxic vs Wesh Network
- Toxic vs Metronome IM
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