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.
Based on our record, Jitsi should be more popular than Franz. It has been mentiond 56 times since March 2021. 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: 11 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
> Tell me another platform that is free, has realtime chat, voice and video, has stable service, allows sharing images and other media, with good ownership management... And is open source. Mattermost: https://mattermost.com/ Rocket.Chat: https://www.rocket.chat/ Nextcloud Talk: https://nextcloud.com/talk/ Self hosting and some assembly required. I've run all of them on cheap VPSes to explore a Slack/Discord... - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago
It was used to build video calling applications on the web without having to deal with the intricacies of webrtc and so forth. There is a really nice open source alternative, Jitsi and quite a few paid solutions like the Zoom SDK, Whereby, Dyte, etc. Source: 5 months ago
It's definitely a challenge, but another good thing about HN is people link alternatives in threads like this. I'm already checking out Jitsi (mentioned up thread) and it looks awesome. It's even open source: https://jitsi.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
You can share your desktop with multiple users for free without an account using https://jitsi.org/. Source: 11 months ago
Not yet. I expect it'll be online. The last two were online using Jitsi, but the specific link is only visible if you RSVP on the event page. Source: about 1 year ago
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