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Clients

A client is a standalone project that implements a frontend (graphical or otherwise) to the p2p, encryption, and data sending facilities of the Tox core libraries.

List of all clients

Here is a list of clients available for testing and developing. Click an image to zoom in.

Name Description Screenshot Operating System Support
qTox qt-based GUI client. qTox Windows / Linux / Mac OS
Toxic Ncurses-based CLI. Maintained by Jfreegman. Toxic Linux / BSD / Mac OS / Android
aTox The reasonable Tox client for Android. aTox Android
TRIfA TRIfA is a Tox client for Android TRIfA Android

Features

qTox Toxic TRIfA aTox
Interface Desktop CLI Mobile Mobile
Linux Yes Yes No No
OSX Yes Yes No No
Windows Yes No No No
BSD Yes Yes No No
Android No Partial1) Yes Yes
iOS No No No No
SailfishOS No Yes No No
Audio features qTox Toxic TRIfA aTox
Audio Yes Yes Yes No
Audio filtering Yes No Yes No
Audio notifications Yes Yes Yes Yes
Group audio Partial2) Partial3) Partial4) No
Video features qTox Toxic TRIfA aTox
Desktop sharing Yes No No No
Video Yes Yes Yes No
Messaging qTox Toxic TRIfA aTox
1v1 messages Yes Yes Yes Yes
Chat logs Yes Yes Yes Yes
Emoticons Yes Yes Yes Yes
Inline images Semi5) No Yes Yes
Message splitting Yes No No Yes
Faux offline messaging Yes Semi6) Yes Yes
File transfers Yes Yes Yes Yes
File resuming Semi7) Yes Untested No
Spell check Yes No No No
Screen/Desktop notifications Semi8) Yes Yes Yes
Typing notifications Yes Yes Yes Yes
Group chats qTox Toxic TRIfA aTox
Private/un-moderated conferences Yes Yes Yes No
Public/moderated group chats Planned Yes Yes No
Chat history Planned9) Yes Yes No
File transfers No No No No
Inline images No No No No
Offline messaging No No No No
Profile & Contact Management qTox Toxic TRIfA aTox
Avatars Yes Semi10) Yes Yes
Changing nospam Yes Yes Yes No
Contact aliases Yes Yes Untested No
Contact blocking Yes Yes Untested No
Multiprofile Yes Yes No No
Profile import/export Yes Yes Yes Yes
Save file encryption Yes Yes Yes No
tox: URI Yes No Yes Yes
General qTox Toxic TRIfA aTox
Multilingual Yes No Yes Yes
Proxy support Yes Yes (Tor only) Yes
qTox Toxic TRIfA aTox
 

See also

1)
No audio/video
2) , 3) , 4)
private conferences only
5)
Preview for saved images only
6)
Messages are not stored, and thus they won't be sent across client restarts
7)
Transfers can be paused and resumed, but broken transfers will not be resumed
8)
Supported but not included in builds
9)
https://github.com/qTox/qTox/pull/5454
10)
You are only able to set your own avatar, avatars of friends aren't displayed