https://github.com/nextcloud/talk-desktop
Nextcloud Talk Desktop client
https://github.com/nextcloud/talk-desktop
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Nextcloud Talk Desktop client
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/nextcloud/talk-desktop
- Owner: nextcloud
- License: agpl-3.0
- Created: 2022-11-03T14:37:08.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-05-09T16:49:52.000Z (8 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-09T17:49:33.686Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: desktop, electron, javascript, nextcloud, nextcloud-talk, vue
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://nextcloud.com/talk
- Size: 46.9 MB
- Stars: 326
- Watchers: 16
- Forks: 32
- Open Issues: 126
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE
- Authors: AUTHORS.md
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# Nextcloud Talk Desktop
[](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/nextcloud/talk-desktop)
[](https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/latest)
[](https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/)
> Official Nextcloud Talk Desktop client
## 📥 Install
All binaries and `beta` releases are available on [Nextcloud Releases](https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases).
| Platform (arch) | Distribution type | Download link |
|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **🐧 Linux** (x64) | [Flatpak](https://flatpak.org) single file (recommended) | [Nextcloud.Talk-linux-x64.flatpak](https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/latest/download/Nextcloud.Talk-linux-x64.flatpak) |
| **🐧 Linux** (x64) | ZIP archive | [Nextcloud.Talk-linux-x64.zip](https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/latest/download/Nextcloud.Talk-linux-x64.zip) |
| **🍎 macOS** (Universal) | Disc Image | [Nextcloud.Talk-macos-universal.dmg](https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/latest/download/Nextcloud.Talk-macos-universal.dmg) |
| **🪟 Windows** (x64) | Non-admin single-user one-click installer (recommended) | [Nextcloud.Talk-windows-x64.exe](https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/latest/download/Nextcloud.Talk-windows-x64.exe) |
| **🪟 Windows** (x64) | [MSI](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-wix-msi/blob/master/guides/enduser.md) (for administrated environments) | [Nextcloud.Talk-windows-x64.msi](https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/latest/download/Nextcloud.Talk-windows-x64.msi) |
### via Package manager
| Platform | Package manager | Command | Status |
|----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **🪟 Windows** | [Windows Package Manager](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/) | `winget install Nextcloud.Talk` |  |
| **🪟 Windows** | [Windows Package Manager](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/) | `winget install Nextcloud.Talk.Beta` |  | |
#### Community supported packages
| Platform | Package manager | Command | Status |
|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **🪟 Windows** | [Chocolatey Community](https://community.chocolatey.org/) | `choco install nextcloud-talk` |  |
## 🏗️ Prerequisites
- [Nextcloud Server](https://github.com/nextcloud/server) version 27 or higher.
- [Nextcloud Talk](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed) version 17 or higher.
## 👥 Multi-account
Full multi-account currently [is not currently supported](https://github.com/nextcloud/talk-desktop/issues/7).
However, using portable `zip` distribution, you can have several Nextcloud Talk instances run simultaneously. Just rename the executable from default `Nextcloud Talk` to a custom name. For example:
```
/path/to/apps/
├── home-apps/
│ └── Nextcloud Talk/
│ ├── ...
│ ├── Nextcloud Talk (Home).exe
│ └── ...
└── work-apps/
└── Nextcloud Talk/
├── ...
├── Nextcloud Talk (Work).exe
└── ...
```
## 🛠️ Development Setup
1. Install dependencies
```bash
npm ci
```
2. Nextcloud Talk Desktop requires [Nextcloud Talk source code](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed).
- **No `nextcloud/spreed` is cloned?**\
Clone it and install dependencies:
```sh
# Clone Talk to the repository root
git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed
# Install dependencies
npm ci --prefix=spreed
```
- **You want to reuse existing `nextcloud/spreed`, for instance, in a server setup?**\
Set `TALK_PATH` ENV variable or edit `.env` file:
```sh
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env and set TALK_PATH
TALK_PATH=/path/to/nextcloud/server/apps-extra/spreed/
```
3. Check `.env.example` for any additional configuration if needed.
## 🧑💻 Development
### Start development server in Electron
```bash
npm run dev
```
### Build binaries for production
```bash
# 🖥️ Current platform and architecture
npm run build
# 🐧 Linux (x64)
npm run build:linux
# 🍏 macOS (universal)
npm run build:mac
# 🍏 macOS (separate x64 and arm64)
npm run build:mac:x64
npm run build:mac:arm64
# 🪟 Windows (win32-x64)
npm run build:windows
```
Notes:
- **General recommendation is to always build binaries on the same platform**
- Building Windows binaries on Linux/Mac requires Wine
- Building Mac binaries on Windows is not supported
- Building Linux binaries on Windows is not supported for some Linux distributions
### Maintenance
#### Generating icons
After changing source icons, to generate icons in different sizes and formats, run:
```bash
npm run generate-icons
```
#### Updating global (server) styles
Talk frontend depends on the global Nextcloud server styles. To manually get them run:
```bah
# node ./scripts/fetch-server-styles.mjs , for example
node ./scripts/fetch-server-styles.mjs stable29
```
## 📦 Packaging distributions
```bash
# 🐧 Linux (x64)
npm run package:linux
# 🍏 macOS (universal)
npm run package:mac
# 🍏 macOS (separate x64 and arm64)
npm run package:mac:arm64
npm run package:mac:x64
# 🪟 Windows (win32-x64)
npm run package:windows
```
## 👥 Contribution Guidelines
See: https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed#contribution-guidelines