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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. qTox Windows / OS X / GNU/Linux / BSD
µTox Lightweight Tox client for the desktop. µTox Windows / OS X / GNU/Linux / BSD / Android
Antox A client for Android. Antox Android (2.3+)
Antidote A client for iOS. Antidote iOS (7.0+)
gTox GTK3-style Tox client written by KoKuToru. gTox GNU/Linux
Isotoxin Multiprotocol client for Windows. Isotoxin Windows
Toxic Ncurses-based CLI. Maintained by Jfreegman. Toxic GNU/Linux / BSD / OS X
Toxy Metro-style Tox client for Windows, maintained by Impyy. Toxy Windows
XwinTox Radically modular and portable Tox client. XwinTox 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
6) , 7) Messages are not stored, and thus they won't be sent across client restarts
8) Only by manually specifying which save file should be used.
9) Sends typing notifications but does not show received ones

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