Franz is your messaging app that combines chat & messaging services into one application. Franz currently supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts,GroupMe, Skype and many more.
Franz might be a bit more popular than Dino. We know about 28 links to it since March 2021 and only 20 links to Dino. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I thought this was https://meetfranz.com/ until the word “Apache Kafka” and was puzzled. Naming things and name collisions…. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
But for Windows or Linux PC, I'd use this one Franz to view multiple chat apps. Source: 11 months ago
Thats insane! I thought it was a free thing that just required an invite to access. Jeez! I have seen an alternative called Franz, not tried it yet though. By the looks of it does have a free alternative aswell as paid version. Source: 12 months ago
There is also https://meetfranz.com/. But its neither selfhosted nor free. (well unless you only need 3 different services). Source: about 1 year ago
For anyone who doesn't know what Franz is, you can check out the link below. It is essentially an application that allows you to access (most of) your online messaging apps in the same place. Which is convenient when you want to, for example, check your facebook, discord and IG messages at the same time. Https://meetfranz.com/. Source: about 1 year ago
I thought this was about the Dino messenger, an open-source Jabber/XMPP messenger with E2E security (OMEMO or OpenPGP) [1]. [1] https://dino.im/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Thanks for the reply, I'll definitely keep an eye on all that. > For a Slack competitor like Linen it would make more sense to use web UI because of the video calling/WebRTC stuff. I'm not even sure it matters so much, for instance there is this XMPP client that uses (lib)WebRTC for audio/video calls and has all of its UI build with Gtk (no web): https://dino.im/ > Proper GUI toolkits give you a lot of stuff out... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Dino is the GNOME client for XMPP. It was recently ported to GTK4 and Libadwaita. Source: about 1 year ago
If you want something that's more of a Slack/Discord alternative, gajim is receiving a lot of attention and polish lately, with Dino and Beagle as simpler alternatives. Source: over 1 year ago
I used Pidgin back in the day of AIM and ICQ, but nowadays, for XMPP, there’s Dino and Gajim for desktop and Conversations.im for Android. As far as I know, OTR has been superseded or replaced by OMEMO in most clients. Source: over 1 year ago
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