lurch VS Kontalk

Compare lurch vs Kontalk and see what are their differences.

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lurch Kontalk
5 3
279 567
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0.0 0.0
about 1 year ago about 1 year ago
C Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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lurch

Posts with mentions or reviews of lurch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-23.
  • I cannot download a git repo
    2 projects | /r/tails | 23 Feb 2022
    Do `torify git clone https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/
  • XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2022
    the omemo support in pidgin is just through a plugin, as with many recent XEPs. i think people tend to forget that pidgin's focus is being a multi-protocol messenger. it ships with XMPP support, but that mostly includes the base.

    i wrote that omemo plugin and tbh I am pretty burned out. so many moving parts, it's hell to debug and i'm not even sure where to go next with it. (plus people keep talking badly about pidgin anyway and i am not sure if it's even worth continuing.) i am very thankful for all the contributions so far, especially the help with packaging it. sorry if someone feels let down.

    i feel like this is the right moment to ask: if anyone reading has an idea how to improve the state of things, i'd be happy about some suggestions. the project page is https://github.com/gkdr/lurch

  • Mental Outlaw's Prosody XMPP Tutorial
    1 project | /r/xmpp | 13 Jul 2021
  • Die Beste Werbung für Signal. Weg von WhatsApp.
    1 project | /r/de_EDV | 8 Jan 2021
    Neben der normalen Version von lurch die zuletzt 2018 geupdatet wurde gibt es noch den dev build der wesentlich besser funktioniert und wo das letzte Update erst 5 Tage her ist. Allerdings muss man die Version entweder selbst kompilieren was bei Pidgin unter Windows etwas umständlich ist oder eine bereits kompilierte Version vom 24.07.2020 nutzen. https://github.com/gkdr/lurch/tree/dev https://eion.robbmob.com/lurch/dev/

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 lurch and Kontalk you can also consider the following projects:

slack-libpurple - Slack module for libpurple

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

Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android

Candy - JavaScript-based multi-user chat client for XMPP.

bitlbee - An IRC to other chat networks gateway :bee:

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

purple-signald - Pidgin libpurple bridge to signald.

Kaiwa - [UNMAINTAINED] A modern XMPP Web client

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

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

Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android