qTox
qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol. (by qTox)
tdesktop
Telegram Desktop messaging app (by telegramdesktop)
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| qTox | tdesktop | |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 169 | |
| 4,407 | 24,521 | |
| - | 2.2% | |
| 9.0 | 9.9 | |
| about 1 year ago | 4 days ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
qTox
Posts with mentions or reviews of qTox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.
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qTox unmaintained. Is this the end of qTox?
If you go to https://github.com/qTox/qTox You will see the following: "Due to a lack of resources, qTox is no longer maintained. If someone with provable C++ experience and sufficient resources to maintain qTox wants to take over I'm happy to discuss that." So is someone going to "take over"? I really like qTox & would hate to see it go.
- question for the girls 😼
- Netikoosoleku eelteade: 29. jaanuar 20:00 (vestluse tekitamine Delta Chat-is ei õnnestunud)
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Comparison of messaging apps
qTox https://qtox.github.io/ There is an android variant called aTox, not sure about mobile IOS.
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Looking for privacy respecting voice chat, that works online without creating an account, and has an option to use push to talk
Maybe something that uses the Tox network? Maybe qTox: https://qtox.github.io/
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11 methods of sending 118GB failed. Advice?
Qtox(p2p messaging?) failed: You can send files, but it looks like you can only open folders to look for files to send, not send folders themselves.
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Chat control: Leaked Commission paper EU mass surveillance plans
Tox (anonymous too, if routed through Tor) [clients like qTox might not be the "sexiest", but they are small and can be used almost anywhere]
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EMPRESS is working on a Deathloop crackfix, those with problems are advised to get in contact right now
What is Google? https://qtox.github.io/
- Barroso não sabe o que é VPN, e se soubesse, rasgaria o boga de tanta raiva. 😂
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Mattermost-Alternative?
Qtox does all that, even if screen sharing was a bit obscure years ago. Qtox won't work on iOS but there is an Android release. Big advantages: no server required, easy to use, secure, open source.
tdesktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of tdesktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
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Telegram Remote Code Exploit
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/commit/eaaa704fa...
so potentially could be just to send an Instant View link pointing to an app instead of a site.
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Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar
How is telegram Electron if it's https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop C++/QT?
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Telegram app is listed in audio sources but it is not running
Please report this to the Telegram GitHub.
- Is the Telegram package in RPM Fusion repositories considered safe and actively maintained for installation?
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[Q] What's the best TG client for Linux?
The Telegram Desktop app is available on Linux, and since it is open source, is commonly available in distro repositories.
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Open chats in new window
You just need to install Telegram Desktop if you want this specific thing :) Go to https://desktop.telegram.org and download it there.
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Need help saving settings. or setting a backup
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
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Telegram install on Tails
Download the https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop within the same directory as the Telegram executable, create a folder called TelegramForcePortable. This way you can save the Telegram settings across reboots in your persistent storage. no installation needed!
- What non-FOSS you can't live without?
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Official Telegram app : CPU hog
There are 2 versions, one is Telegram Desktop that you can get from their GitHub page, the other one is available on AppStore. I personally use the latter and it’s pretty much negligible in terms of battery impact.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing qTox and tdesktop you can also consider the following projects:
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
Telegram-Groups-Channels-Scraper-Adder-Software - Telegram Member Scraper - Telegram auto group scraper Export telegram group members, how to copy telegram group members, Telegram marketing group
Tox - The future of online communications.
Telegram - Telegram for Android source
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
GoodbyeDPI - GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
toxic - A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client
kotatogram-desktop - Experimental Telegram Desktop fork.
c-toxcore - The future of online communications.
TelegramSwift - Source code of Telegram for macos on Swift 5.0