Peer-calls vs SimpleX Chat
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted chat & communication options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Peer-calls with
choose an app… Chatwoot Jitsi Meet Etherpad Centrifugo Screego Typebot Berty BigBlueButton Mumble The Lounge Papercups qTox MiroTalk Jitsi Videobridge Tox Dino La Suite - Meet Nextcloud Talk Galène Toxic Element Call Greenlight CoyIM Spark IM Gajim Nextcloud Talk Signaling Server plugNmeet Linphone Jangouts Jami Server Bridge Openfire Pade Plugin Jami
Compare SimpleX Chat with
choose an app… Plane Chatwoot Focalboard Super Productivity Wekan Etherpad OpenProject Habitica Self-Hosted Tinode Planka Leantime Centrifugo Screego Typebot git-bug Kanboard Berty Mumble Kaneo ejabberd The Lounge Papercups Taskwarrior Zammad WorkAdventure Soketi Remark42 Isso FreeSWITCH qTox MiroTalk Synapse Ferdium FreeScout Telegram Bot API Server Rustpad Asterisk WeeChat Ergo irssi FluffyChat Quicksy Bridge Kamailio Cusdis Tox Stoat AnyCable Chitchatter Live Helper Chat Spacebar Nextcloud Talk Indico RetroShare SIPCAPTURE Homer MongooseIM mautrix-telegram Routr GlobaLeaks openSIPS mautrix Databag Galène InspIRCd Candy Toxic Hyphanet Syphon FusionPBX soju KiwiIRC Glowing Bear Bonfire Pretalx Delta Chat Element X Notifo SimpleX Briar Quassel IRC OTS matrix-commander Mumble Web Comentario mautrix-signal BitlBee ngIRCd Miaou Session Nextcloud Talk Signaling Server UnrealIRCd MiroTalk C2C matrix-appservice-irc Linphone Chatmail Chatmail Relay SchildiChat Hookshot Snikket Atheme IRC Services Maunium Sticker Picker Spectrum 2 Shhh Gamja Jami Server Bridge Mollysocket Anope PushBits Tigase XMPP Server Comm Heisenbridge Slixmpp Ferdium Server Solanum Wesh Network Draupnir baibot matrix-media-repo Charybdis IRCd Zusam Cactus Comments ircd-hybrid Scuttlebutt Room Robust IRC Flexisip Metronome IM SAMA Biboumi Monocles Chat Hebbot ircu2 Prose Libervia Jami YunoHost Mail Relay 3CX ARN-Messager Freepbx GNUnet Groupboard MailBag Mailman3 Mailing List Manager Mlmmj Web Peachpub PrivMX WebMail SIP3 TrueConf Wazo Yeti-Switch
Feature Peer-calls SimpleX Chat Category Chat & Communication Chat & Communication License Apache-2.0 AGPL-3.0 Language Go Haskell Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 50 MB 256 MB Deployment bare-metal docker, binary, source GitHub stars ★ 1,903 ★ 19,211 First released 2024 2021 Replaces BigBlueButton, Skype, Zoom Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram
Why pick each one
Choose Peer-calls if… Released under the Apache-2.0 license Easy to set up — beginner-friendly Active community (1.9k GitHub stars) Written in Go Peer-calls details
Frequently asked questions Is Peer-calls or SimpleX Chat better? Neither is universally better. SimpleX Chat has the larger community, while Peer-calls is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Peer-calls and SimpleX Chat free and open-source? Yes. Peer-calls is licensed under Apache-2.0 and SimpleX Chat under AGPL-3.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Peer-calls and SimpleX Chat with Docker? Peer-calls: check the project docs for container support. SimpleX Chat: yes.