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    BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger)

    BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger)

    You can message and share files inside your intranet without a server.

    BeeBEEP is a secure (encryption based on Rijndael Algorithm, AES) peer to peer office messenger. You can talk and send files with all your colleagues inside a local area network such of an office, home or internet cafe without a server. BeeBEEP works also with VPNs. This serverless application is indispensable in all those places where privacy and security an essential requirement. For more info visit: https://www.beebeep.net
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    Downloads: 2,223 This Week
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    Pidgin IM

    Pidgin IM

    A universal instant messaging (IM) program

    See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.
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    Downloads: 4,893 This Week
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    Psi

    Psi

    Psi IM — Qt-based XMPP client

    Psi is cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. There are builds available for MS Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS.
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    Downloads: 364 This Week
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    Psi+

    Psi+

    Psi+ Project — development branch of Psi XMPP client

    Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Previously is was a sort of fork but now just consider it as a space for nightly builds.
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    Downloads: 465 This Week
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    LAN Messenger

    LAN Messenger

    An intranet chat application that does not require a server.

    LAN Messenger is a p2p chat application for intranet communication and does not require a server. A variety of handy features are supported including notifications, personal and group messaging with encryption, file transfer and message logging.
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    Downloads: 234 This Week
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    Mumble

    Mumble

    Low-latency, high quality voice chat for gamers

    Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. It includes game linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their characters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakers won't be audible to other players.
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    Downloads: 122 This Week
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    Rocket.Chat Community Version

    Rocket.Chat Community Version

    The Leading Open Source Communication Hub | Community Version

    Own your Communication with the all-in-one platform made for customer support and team collaboration. Lead with the open-source power: data security and flexibility at your hands. *NOTE: This is our Community Version product page. To know more about all of the possibilities within Rocket.Chat, check our Enterprise product page https://sourceforge.net/software/product/Rocket.Chat/ Rocket.Chat is a reliable communication platform for high-private team chatting and collaboration. Highly scalable, our solution increases business efficiency by bringing messages, video calls, file sharing and all team communication into one place. +10M users trust Rocket.Chat to obtain: - The best cost-benefit enterprise communication platform - A remote-first platform for team collaboration - Data-privacy ensured (GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, you name it) - Seamless adaptation for all kinds of
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    EiskaltDC++

    EiskaltDC++

    Program for filesharing using Direct Connect and ADC protocols

    EiskaltDC++ is a cross-platform program that uses the Direct Connect and ADC protocols. It is compatible with DC++, FlylinkDC++, LinuxDC++ and other DC clients. EiskaltDC++ also interoperates with all common DC hub software.
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    Downloads: 65 This Week
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    Frost
    Freenet front end written in Java. Supports multiple up/downloads, messages, searching and more.
    Downloads: 92 This Week
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    Protocol plugin for Office 365/Lync/OCS

    Protocol plugin for Office 365/Lync/OCS

    for Adium, Pidgin, Miranda and Telepathy IM Framework

    Please make sure to read this page: http://sourceforge.net/p/sipe/wiki/Frequently%20Asked%20Questions/ A third-party Pidgin/Adium/Miranda/Telepathy plugin for the extended version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various products: * Skype for Business * Microsoft Office 365 * Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) * Microsoft Lync Server * Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2) * Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005)
    Downloads: 28 This Week
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    phpMyChat

    phpMyChat

    Standalone chat system developed in php, mysql and javascript

    phpMyChat-Plus is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use multi-room PHP/DB chat. It is currently available for MySQLi, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and ODBC. It supports IRC-like commands, moderators, is available in 24 languages and fully compatible with php7.
    Downloads: 26 This Week
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    RetroShare

    RetroShare

    [WARNING] Project has moved to http://github.com/Retroshare/Retroshare

    [IMPORTANT] Retroshare is now distributed on Github. Please go to http://retroshare.net to find the latest releases and sources. RetroShare is a cross-platform, secured and decentralized communication system. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more with family and friends, using OpenPGP to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    phpFreeChat is a free, simple to install, fast and customizable chat that uses by default files for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh and display the chat zone and the nickname zone.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    Mibew Messenger 3
    Mibew Messenger is an open-source live support application allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators.
    Downloads: 57 This Week
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    emesene
    emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Bot Sentry is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to prevent Instant Message (IM) spam. It allows you to ignore IMs unless the sender is in your Buddy List, the sender is in your Allow List, or the sender correctly answers a question you have predefined.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Jimm is an ICQ clone for mobile devices, such as celluluar phones. It is written in Java 2 Micro Edition (MIDP) and uses protocol version 8. Jimm is not affiliated with or endorsed by ICQ, Inc.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the internet, independant of local network organization.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Darkbot

    The IRC's Talking Robot

    [ Please read https://sourceforge.net/p/darkbot/news/2014/01/darkbots-revitalization/ ] Darkbot is a portable IRC chat robot written in the C language that can be taught responses to user inquiries, and even have conversations with them. Darkbot was originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels on Intenet Relay Chat.
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    Downloads: 23 This Week
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    Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Mibew Messenger 1.x
    "Mibew Messenger" - is unique software allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators. This repo should be treated as an obsolete. For modern version of Mibew Messenger see https://sourceforge.net/projects/mibew/
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is the heir of the Everybuddy project, and aims to continue improving the program and addressing its shortcomings.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Licq is an ICQ/AIM clone written fully in C++. It uses an extensive plugin system to manage many different functions including the MSN protocol. The main GUI is written using the Qt widget set.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    AJAX Chat - Open Source Web Chat

    Fully customizable web chat created using AJAX.

    MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Kadu
    Kadu is a dynamically evolving instant messenger compatible with the Gadu-Gadu and XMPP protocol. It can be run on all platforms supporting the Qt toolkit.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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