bitlbee VS OpenCord

Compare bitlbee vs OpenCord and see what are their differences.

OpenCord

An open-source Material You implementation of the Discord Android app (by MateriiApps)
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bitlbee OpenCord
4 6
587 1,231
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3.9 7.9
2 months ago 4 months ago
C Kotlin
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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bitlbee

Posts with mentions or reviews of bitlbee. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
  • How Beeper Mini Works
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023
    ah didn't realize it had gone away. its successor appears to be [0]

    now I'm reliving the chaos of the late-00s/early-10s instant messaging apocalypse when AOL sunsetted AIM. Clients like Trillian were absolutely necessary before AIM shut down. Everybuddy was a good linux-friendly client. When I still spent time on IRC, I really really liked Bitlbee [1] with ERC [2].

    (I'm not saying that there's a connection there, but rather that all the chat protocols started getting used less around the same time for the same reason, which was smartphones becoming commonplace in late-00s.)

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayttm

    [1] https://www.bitlbee.org/

    [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/erc.html

  • Is/are there any FOSS Discord Client for Android?
    9 projects | /r/fossdroid | 19 Jan 2023
    I use purple-discord (libpurple/Pidgin plugin) + BItlBee (IRC chat gateway, libpurple variant) + Quassel (distribued IRC client, like a bouncer) on a home server, and use Quasseldroid to connect on mobile. I would eventually like to simplify this setup.
  • The first beta of Slidge (XMPP bridges) is out
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2022
    I used to have a similar setup to use IRC for everything using https://www.bitlbee.org. Fun times!
  • Screenshot: twittering-mode
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Aug 2022
    Another approach to this is to use bitlbee's twitter support and your favorite Emacs IRC client to access that. This is especially nice if you are using bitlbee anyway.

OpenCord

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenCord. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-31.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bitlbee and OpenCord you can also consider the following projects:

Weechat - The extensible chat client.

Aliucord - A modification for the Discord Android App

slack-libpurple - Slack module for libpurple

Kizzy - Discord Rich Presence for Android. Made with jetpack compose and material3

lurch - XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption for libpurple.

ComposeCookBook - A Collection on all Jetpack compose UI elements, Layouts, Widgets and Demo screens to see it's potential

purple-gowhatsapp - Pidgin/libpurple plugin for WhatsApp Web.

purple-discord - A libpurple/Pidgin plugin for Discord

client - Open source, themeable and extendable discord-compatible native Spacebar client

Learn-Jetpack-Compose-By-Example - 🚀 This project contains various examples that show how you would do things the "Jetpack Compose" way

bitlbee-discord - Bitlbee plugin for Discord (http://discordapp.com)

Cofi - Free and open-source coffee brew timer. Customizable time settings and an easy-to-use interface. Perfect cup every time.