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Toxic

Terminal-based client for the Tox messaging network

Chat & Communication ★ 1.3k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

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.

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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

Is Toxic secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Toxic's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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