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https://github.com/manusa/electronim
Electron based multi IM (Instant Messaging) client
https://github.com/manusa/electronim
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Electron based multi IM (Instant Messaging) client
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/manusa/electronim
- Owner: manusa
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2019-12-20T16:12:28.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-01-08T18:19:01.000Z (14 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-12T07:02:23.307Z (10 days ago)
- Topics: electron, hacktoberfest, im, instant-messaging, multiplatform, slack, telegram, whatsapp
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 15.6 MB
- Stars: 216
- Watchers: 8
- Forks: 33
- Open Issues: 65
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Security: SECURITY.md
- Roadmap: docs/Roadmap.md
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# ElectronIM
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Free/Libre open source Electron based multi instant messaging (IM) client.
Combine all your IM applications (or whatever you want) in a single browser (Electron) window.
## Quickstart
Detailed guides for installation can be followed in our comprehensive [setup guide](docs/Setup.md).
Download the latest binary version for your platform:
[releases](https://github.com/manusa/electronim/releases/latest)
Or if you have Node installed in your system, you can try out ElectronIM by running one of the following commands:
```
npx electronim
```
```
npm install -g electronim
electronim
```
## Features
- ⚛ Multi-platform: ElectronIM is available for Linux 🐧, Mac 🍏 and Windows.
- 🌍 Based on Chromium 130
- 🔔 Desktop notifications: ElectronIM will notify you using your native system notifications.
- 🧐 Spellchecker: ElectronIM contains spellchecker dictionaries for many languages,
if your language is not supported, just [file an issue](https://github.com/manusa/electronim/issues/new).
- 🕸 Supports any web based IM solution
- 👋 Drag-and-drop tab reordering
- 🔒 Configurable context for tabs (Isolated/sandboxed or shared). i.e. You can have multiple
tabs/instances of the same service/web application if the context is sandboxed.
- 🔕 Notifications can be disabled for individual Applications
- 💤 Notifications can be disabled globally (Do not disturb)
- ⌨ Keyboard [shortcuts](docs/Keyboard-shortcuts.md)
- 🖥️ Screen sharing
- 🌗 Light and Dark themes with system override
- 🗕 System Tray
- 🔎 Find in page
## [Screenshot](docs/Screenshots.md)
## Motivation
Inspired by [Rambox](https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition) and
[Franz](https://github.com/meetfranz/franz), I created **ElectronIM** out of the necessity of
having an all-in-one instant messaging app that didn't require registration and provided
spell checking for free.
## Documentation
0. [Setup Guide](docs/Setup.md)
0. [Keyboard Shortcuts](docs/Keyboard-shortcuts.md)
0. [Troubleshooting](docs/Troubleshooting.md)
## Acknowledgements
- [Electron](https://electronjs.org/)
- [Preact](https://github.com/preactjs/preact)
- [Chrome tabs](https://github.com/adamschwartz/chrome-tabs#readme)
- [Nodehun](https://github.com/Wulf/nodehun/)
- [Woorm's dictionary repo](https://github.com/wooorm/dictionaries)