This is an old revision of the document!


This is a list of clients that are no longer being maintained.

Name Description Screenshot Operating System Support
Antidote1) A client for iOS.  Antidote iOS (7.0+)
Blight Cross-platform graphical user interface for Tox written in Racket.  Blight Windows / OS X / GNU/Linux
cyanide Tox client for SailfishOS  Cyanide SailfishOS
gTox2) GTK3-style Tox client written by KoKuToru.  gTox GNU/Linux
Ratox Command-line piping interface Linux
Ricin3) A Tox client that focus on user experience.  Ricin GNU/Linux / BSD
XwinTox4) Radically modular and portable Tox client.  XwinTox Solaris / BSD / GNU/Linux

Unmaintained Clients: Features

Ricin Antidote gTox XwinTox
Interface Desktop Mobile Desktop Desktop
Linux Yes No Yes Yes
OSX Untested No No Untested
Windows Minimal5) No Yes Untested
BSD Yes No No Yes6)
Android No No No No
iOS No Yes No No
SailfishOS No No No No
Audio features Ricin Antidote gTox XwinTox
Audio No Yes No No
Audio filtering No Yes No No
Audio notifications No Yes Yes No
Group audio No No No No
Video features Ricin Antidote gTox XwinTox
Desktop sharing No No No No
Video No Yes Yes No
Messaging Ricin Antidote gTox XwinTox
1v1 messages Yes Yes Yes Yes
Chat logs No Yes Yes No
Emoticons Semi7) Yes No Semi8)
Group chats No No No Yes
Inline images Yes Yes Yes No
Message splitting No Yes No No
Faux offline messaging No No No Semi9)
File transfer Yes Yes Yes Yes
File resuming Yes No Yes No
Spell check Yes Yes No No
Typing notification Yes No No No
Profile & Contact Management Ricin Antidote gTox XwinTox
Avatars Yes Yes Yes Yes
Changing nospam Yes No No No
Contact aliases No Yes No No
Contact blocking Yes No No No
Name lookups No Yes No Yes
Multiprofile Yes Yes Yes No
Profile import/export No Yes No No
Save file encryption No Yes No No
tox: URI Yes Yes No No
General Ricin Antidote gTox XwinTox
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes No
Proxy support Yes No No No
Read receipts Yes Yes No No
Ricin Antidote gTox XwinTox
1)
unmaintained as of Aug 3, 2019: https://github.com/Antidote-for-Tox/Antidote
2)
unmaintained, last commit on Dec 25, 2015: https://github.com/KoKuToru/gTox
3)
discontinued as of Feb 21, 2017: https://github.com/RicinApp/Ricin
5)
Currently stalled
6)
Including Solaris and OpenIndiana
7) , 8)
UTF-8 only
9)
Messages are not stored, and thus they won't be sent across client restarts
Print/export