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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 | A Qt graphical user interface for Tox, written by tux3. | | Windows / OS X / GNU/Linux / BSD |
| µTox | Lightweight Tox client for the desktop. | | Windows / OS X / GNU/Linux / BSD / Android |
| Antox | A client for Android. | | Android (2.3+) |
| Antidote | A client for iOS. | | iOS (7.0+) |
| gTox | GTK3-style Tox client written by KoKuToru. | | GNU/Linux |
| Isotoxin | Multiprotocol client for Windows. | | Windows |
| Toxic | Ncurses-based CLI. Maintained by Jfreegman. | | GNU/Linux / BSD / OS X |
| Toxy | Metro-style Tox client for Windows, maintained by Impyy. | | Windows |
| XwinTox | Radically modular and portable Tox client. | | Solaris / BSD / GNU/Linux |
Features
| qTox | µTox | Antox | Toxic | Antidote | Isotoxin | gTox | Toxy | XwinTox | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interface | Desktop | Desktop | Mobile | CLI | Mobile | Desktop | Desktop | Desktop | Desktop |
| Linux | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| OSX | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Untested |
| Windows | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Untested |
| BSD | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes1) |
| Android | No | Minimal 2) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| iOS | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| SailfishOS | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| qTox | µTox | Antox | Toxic | Antidote | Isotoxin | gTox | Toxy | XwinTox | |
| 1v1 messages | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Audio | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Audio filtering | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Audio notifications | Yes | Minimal | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Avatars | Yes | Yes | Yes | Semi3) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Changing nospam | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Chat logs | Yes | Yes (binary format) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Contact aliases | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Contact blocking | No | No | Semi4) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Desktop sharing | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Name lookups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Emoticons | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Semi5) |
| Faux offline messaging | Yes | No | Yes | Semi6) | No | Yes | No | Yes | Semi7) |
| File transfer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| File resuming | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Group audio | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Group chats | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Inline images | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Message splitting | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Multilingual | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Multiprofile | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Profile import/export | Yes | No | Yes | Semi8) | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Proxy support | Yes | (Socks5 only) | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Read receipts | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Save file encryption | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Spell check | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Typing notification | Yes | Yes | Semi9) | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| tox: URI | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Video | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| qTox | µTox | Antox | Toxic | Antidote | Isotoxin | gTox | Toxy | XwinTox |
See also
1)
Including Solaris and OpenIndiana
2)
(Currently stalled
3)
You are only able to set your own avatar, avatars of friends aren't displayed
4)
You can block, but not unblock contacts
5)
UTF-8 only
8)
Only by manually specifying which save file should be used.
9)
Sends typing notifications but does not show received ones








