Franz Alternatives

Empathy

Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application. Empathy uses Telepathy for protocol support and has a user interface based on Gossip. Empathy is the default chat client in current versions of GNOME, making it easier for other GNOME applications to integrate collaboration functionality using Telepathy.

Features:

• Chat
• Integrated File Sharing
• Support for Multiple protocols
• SIP
• Video calling
• Video chat
• Voice chat
• Xmpp

Rambox

Free, open source and cross platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.

Features:

• Web application wrapper
• Multi-messenger
• Support for Multiple protocols
• Built-in themes
• Configurable
• JavaScript Rendering
• Multi Channel
• Multiple Account support
• Portable
• Publish on LinkedIn
• Skype integration
• Slack integration
• Telegram

Station

Station unifies all your web apps in one neat & productive interface Browsers aren't the most effective way to go about your work. We decided to start from scratch & build a whole new experience with: A Smart Dock to organize your workflow Unified Search to find anything quickly Notification Center to stay in control

Features:

• Ad-free
• App integration
• Program Launchers
• Live Push Notifications
• Messaging
• Software as a Service
• Team messaging

Dialog Messenger

dialog app is built and designed for corporate communication on all types of mobile devices - tablet, mobile phones etc. All the information that is been transmitted via the mobile app syncs with the web interface, archived and easy to search - by the word, file name, or sender.

Features:

• Encrypted chat
• Messaging
• Messaging-sdk
• Reactions
• Real time collaboration
• Security & Privacy
• Team work
• Text chat
• Video chat
• Voice chat

Ferdi

Hard-fork of Franz, adding awesome features and removing unwanted ones.

Features:

• Security & Privacy
• All in one
• Evernote Client
• Messaging
• Multi-messenger
• Slack client
• Workspaces

YakYak

What does it do: * Send/receive chat messages * Create/change conversations (rename, add people) * Leave/delete conversation * Notifications * Toggle notifications on/off * Drag-drop, copy-paste or attach-button for image upload.

Ripcord

Ripcord is a desktop chat client for group-centric services like Slack and Discord. It provides a traditional compact desktop interface designed for power users. It's not built on top of web browser technology: it responds quickly to input, sips gently from computer resources, and gets out of your way. It does voice chat, too.

Features:

• Native application
• Server Management
• Slack Threads in Tabs
• Voice Call
• Chat
• Slack client
• Slack integration