Top 15 Openfire Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) and groupchat server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.

1. Gajim

Gajim The goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use Jabber client. Gajim works nicely with GNOME, but does not require it to run. It is released under the GNU General Public License.......

2. Spark

Spark Spark is an Open Source, cross-platform IM client optimized for businesses and organizations. It features built-in support for group chat, telephony integration, and strong security. It also offers a great end-user experience with features like in-line spell checking, group chat room bookmarks, and tabbed conversations.......

3. Kadu

Kadu Kadu is an open source Jabber/XMPP and Gadu-Gadu instant messenger client for Linux, *BSD, Mac and Windows.......

4. Conversations

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]......

5. Monal

Monal Monal is an XMPP/Jabber IM client. It can connect to any standard XMPP chat server such as Gtalk or Facebook chat.Notable features:- Free and No Ads! Strong focus on privacy. Does not phone home and does not have "metrics" software. Does not read any personal information.- A direct client that......

6. BeeBEEP

BeeBEEP BeeBEEP is a secure network chat. You can talk and send files with all your friends inside a local area network such of an office, home or internet cafe without a server.You can run in linux using wine.........

7. GoldBug

GoldBug GoldBug is a secure Instant Messenger. You can be sure with using GoldBug (GB), that no third party can look into your chat communication. Private user-to-user communication remains private. GoldBug therefore uses strong multi-encryption with different layers of modern encryption technologies of well known and revised crypto libraries (like libgcrypt......

8. Vacuum-IM

Vacuum-IM Crossplatform Jabber client. The core program is just a plugin loader - all functionality is made available via plugins. This enforces modularity and ensures well defined component interaction via interfaces.......

9. Ayttm

Ayttm Ayttm is an instant messaging (aka chat) client that provides all-in-one chat functionality for several major instant messaging services from one simple program. Ayttm "Contacts" allow you to refer to several accounts of the same person from a single contact name, making it one of the cleanest and simplest clients......

10. QIP Infium

QIP Infium QIP Infium is a multiprotocol instant messaging client. It supports ICQ (OSCAR), Jabber (XMPP), Mail.ru Agnet (MRA), IRC, XIMSS, SIP, Twitter, Facebook and other.......

11. WeeChat

WeeChat WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client. It runs on many platforms (including Linux, BSD and Mac OS). WeeChat is: - modular: a lightweight core with plugins around - multi-protocols: IRC and Jabber (other soon) - extensible: C plugins and scripts (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl and Scheme)......

12. Psi+

Psi+ Psi+ is a development branch of Psi IM XMPP/Jabber client. Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP/Jabber client (Qt, C++) designed for the Jabber power users.......

13. ejabberd

ejabberd Ejabberd is a Rock Solid, Massively Scalable, Infinitely Extensible XMPP Server.ejabberd is an open source Jabber/XMPP server designed from the ground up to be the building bricks of highly critical messaging systems.Written in Erlang programming language, ejabberd is cross-platform, fault-tolerant, clusterable, very modular and highly versatile. It can be extended......

14. Prosody

Prosody Prosody is a modern flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP written in Lua. It aims to be easy to set up and configure, and light on resources. For developers it aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new......

15. Psi

Psi Psi is an instant messaging application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X that connects to the free, open Jabber IM network (also known as XMPP).Localized versions of Psi are available in almost twenty different languages. Built-in support for the Unicode international text standard allows you to send and receive......