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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 / Linux
Antidote A client for iOS. Antidote iOS (7.0+)
Antox A client for Android. Antox Android (2.3+)
Blight Cross-platform graphical user interface for Tox written in Racket. Blight Windows / OS X / Linux
gTox GTK3-style Tox client written by KoKuToru. gTox Linux
Toxic Ncurses-based CLI. Maintained by Jfreegman. Toxic Linux / BSD / OS X
Toxy Metro-style Tox client for Windows, maintained by Impyy. Toxy Windows
µTox Lightweight Tox client for the desktop. µTox Windows / OS X / Linux

Features

qTox Antidote Antox Blight gTox ratox Toxy Toxic µTox
Interface Desktop Mobile Mobile Desktop Desktop CLI Desktop CLI Desktop
Linux Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
OSX Yes No No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes
Windows Yes No No Yes No No Yes No Yes
BSD-like Yes No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Android Minimal1) No Yes No No No No No Minimal2)
iOS No Yes No No No No No No No
qTox Antidote Antox Blight gTox ratox Toxy Toxic µTox
1v1 messages Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Audio Yes No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Audio filtering Yes No No No No Yes Yes No Yes
Audio notifications Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
Avatars Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Semi3) Yes
Changing nospam Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No
Chat logs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Semi4)
Contact aliases Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No
Contact blocking No No Semi5) No No No No Yes No
Desktop sharing Yes No No No No No No No Yes
DNS Discovery Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
Emoticons Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
Faux offline messaging Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Semi6) No
File transfer Yes Yes Yes Yes Semi7) Yes Yes Yes Yes
File resuming No No No Yes8) Yes No No Yes Yes
Group audio Yes No No No No No Yes No Yes
Group chats Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes
Inline images Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
Message splitting Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
Multilingual Yes No Yes No Yes No No No Yes
Multiprofile Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Profile import/export Semi9) Yes Yes No No No No Semi10) No
Proxy support Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Read receipts Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No
Save file encryption Yes No No Yes No Yes No Yes No
Spell check No Yes No Yes No No Yes No No
Typing notification Yes No No No No No No No Yes
tox: URI Yes Yes Yes No No No No No Yes
Video Yes No No No No No Yes No11) Yes
qTox Antidote Antox Blight gTox ratox Toxy Toxic µTox
1) , 2)
Currently stalled
3)
You are only able to set your own avatar, avatars of friends aren't displayed
4)
Logs are stored in a binary format, not readable by anything other than µTox; aside from that µTox displays only a few last messages from history. They can be converted to plain text using log converters. (1) (2)
5)
You can block, but not unblock contacts
6)
Messages are not stored, and thus they won't be sent across client restarts
7)
Doesn't support file sending
8)
Needs to be verified
9)
There was full support, but due changes ability to import through GUI was lost. It's still possible to use profiles from other clients, but there is no easy way of importing them.
10)
Only by manually specifying which save file should be used.
11)
Being worked on by a GSoC student

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