Candy vs Kontalk

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Candy		Kontalk
	Project
-	Mentions	3
1,325	Stars	567
-0.1%	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	Java
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Candy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Candy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Candy yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Kontalk

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kontalk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.

XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2022

Yes, Quicky from the Conversations developer who bragged about copying main features of WhatsApp and Signal.
Another one is Kontalk, https://www.kontalk.org/.
Both XMPP clients require a phone number, and both present the phone number as a benefit in comparison with other XMPP clients without this requirement.
Has anyone used kontalk before?
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 15 Nov 2021

It doesn't support OMEMO (the Signal-based end-to-end encryption protocol used by most XMPP apps today) (kontalk/androidclient#132)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Candy and Kontalk you can also consider the following projects:

Converse.js - Web-based XMPP/Jabber chat client written in JavaScript

JSXC - :speech_balloon: Real-time xmpp chat application with video calls, file transfer and encrypted communication.

Openfire - An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.

Kaiwa - [UNMAINTAINED] A modern XMPP Web client

Prosody IM - IMPORTANT: due to a drive failure, as of 13-Mar-2021, the Mercurial repository had to be re-mirrored, which changed every commit SHA. The old SHAs and trees are backed up in the vault branches. Please migrate to the new branches as soon as you can.

Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations]

Lets-Chat - Self-hosted chat app for small teams

Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android