ICQ

ICQ is one of the oldest instant messengers. First developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, sold to AOL, sold again and currenly owned by the Russian "mail.ru" group (known for one of the largest social networks).

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ICQ is one of the oldest instant messengers. First developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, sold to AOL, sold again and currenly owned by the Russian "mail.ru" group (known for one of the largest social networks). ICQ has been redesigned and is totally different from the "old ICQ". It's available for almost every platform: Web, Desktop, Mobile and even via WAP.

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Telegram

Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple and free. It is like SMS, but more powerful. .

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Web Blackberry Mac Windows Mobile

Portable Privacy protection Ad free Built in File transfer IFTTT integration Works Offline Share files Video calling Voice Call Cloud sync Multiple Account support Lightweight Group chat Multi Device Support Voice messages Search by tags Support for Themes Chat Bot Encrypted chat Photo Sharing Public groups chat Push to talk Anonymous Secure Filesharing End to end encryption Self destructing messages Share Videos Based on phone number Stickers Send Big files Portable Linux In Game Overlay Built in Photo editor Encrypted calls Encrypted VoIP calls GPS Location Tracking Messages in cloud Persistent History Secret chats
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WhatsApp Messenger

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS.

Free Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet Web Blackberry S60

Built in File transfer Video calling Group chat Voice messages Encrypted chat End to end encryption Mobile friendly Based on phone number
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Tox

Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD Mac

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Signal

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Viber is a mobile application that lets you make free phone calls and send text messages to anyone who also has the application installed. .

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Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger is a faster way to message. Reach friends right on their phones, get and send messages fast, message everyone at once and more.

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Zulip

Zulip is a group chat app. Its most distinctive characteristic is that messages are threaded by topic, helping you have long-running, organized conversations.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone BSD Web Self-Hosted

MarkDown support Group chat Group collaboration Team Collaboration Chat Bot Community based Integrated File Sharing GitHub integration Threaded Conversations
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WeChat

WeChat is a complete mobile communication and private social networking app. Free, cross-platform, and full-featured, WeChat is the best way to keep in touch with everyone you care about.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet Blackberry Windows Phone S60

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Conversations

Conversations is a privacy focused, open source XMPP Texting [Jabber] client for Android 4.0+ smart phones with wife-approved easy encryption [OTR, OMEMO, or GPG].

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

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KakaoTalk

KakaoTalk is a phone number based messenger service that allows users anywhere in the world to chat one-to-one or in a group for free.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Wear Kindle Fire Blackberry Windows Phone

Voice Call Group chat Based on phone number Secret chats
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Dasher Messenger

Dasher lets you do more than just text message.

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Group chat Youtube integration
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Video4sure

With group calls up to 256 users, Video4sure is an easy way to make video calls or setup group meetings. No need to register, install or pay.

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Privacy protection Voice Call Group chat Voice messages Encrypted chat Encrypted Connection Encrypted calls
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Plus Messenger

plus messenger is an messaging app that uses telegram 's api. plus messenger has all of telegram's features plus themes. plus messenger is free for android devices.

Free Android Android Tablet

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Messenger Lite

Messenger Lite is a fast and data-efficient messaging app to reach the people in your life. Installs quickly. It's less than 10MB to install, saving storage space...

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WowApp

WowApp helps you do good through the Power of Sharing. We share all revenues with you. WowApp Messenger is free and you can receive earnings without ever spending money....

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Video calling Voice Call Group chat Integrated File Sharing
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AtomJump.com

atomjump.com is a well tuned hosted version of the free open-source atomjump.org. it is free to chat publicly with your family, group...

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Tinode

Open source instant messaging server and clients. Backend in pure Go (license GPL 3.0), client-side binding in Java for Android and Javascript (license Apache 2.0)...

Free Open Source Android Web Self-Hosted

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Mini WA+

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Free Android

Video calling Voice Call Group chat Encrypted chat
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GBWhatsapp

GBWhatsApp App have video call feature and many privacy feature available in the latest update for GBWhatsApp APK for android, With GBWhatsApp Plus you can use two...

Free Android

Video calling Voice Call Group chat Encrypted chat
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Messenger for WhatsApp

Messenger for WhatsApp™ (WA Messenger) is a wrapper for WhatsApp Web. It loads WhatsApp Web in toolbar popup UI and has badge icon text notification for all new...

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Video calling Voice Call Group chat Encrypted chat

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ICQ

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