Tox
Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging protocol and core
Tox is a free, peer-to-peer instant messaging protocol with end-to-end encryption and no central servers. The c-toxcore library is the reference implementation that powers a range of Tox clients.
Key features
- Fully peer-to-peer
- End-to-end encryption
- No central servers
- Voice and video calls
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Active community (2.7k GitHub stars)
- Written in C
- Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM
Tox replaces
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