Ferdium
All-in-one messenger that combines chat services
Ferdium is a desktop application that consolidates many web-based messaging and chat services into a single window. It is a community-maintained fork of Franz and Ferdi with optional self-hosted server.
Key features
- Combines many chat services
- Self-hostable server
- Workspaces and profiles
- Cross-platform desktop app
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (4.5k GitHub stars)
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