Secure your messaging with Dino: An End-to-End encryption chat client for Linux and macOS

Dino is a privacy-focused lightweight open-source messenger for Linux desktops.

It supports end-to-end encryption out-of-the-box via OMEMO or OpenPGP encryption.  

In addition to its strong encryption, Dino allows the user to disable read and typing notification either globally or for specific contacts.

Currently, Dino offers several distribution packages for all popular Linux and Unix distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Alpine Linux, NixOS, Guix and finally FreeBSD (Unix).

However, Dino can be built on macOS, we will add a note about that at the end of this post.

Features

1. Lightweight application
2. Open-source (Libre) free app
3. End-to-end encryption via OMEMO or OpenPGP
4. Full Jabber/XMPP protocols support
5. Multi-lingual language support
6. Decentralized  protocol
7. Supports many Linux distribution
8. Multi-user chat
9. Attachment support (Supports multiple image formats, documents and media files)
10. Emoji support
11. Secret chat support
12. Messages search
13. Multiple accounts option
14. Group chat support

Platforms

• Linux: (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Alpine Linux, NixOS, GuixOS)
• Unix: FreeBSD
• macOS

Supported languages

1. English
2. French
3. Spanish
4. Arabic (RTL)
5. German
6. Dutch
7. Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
8. Italian
9. Hungarian
10. Japanese
11. Korean
12. Turkish

License

Dino is completely (Libre) open-source solution which is release under GNU General Public License v3.0

Resources

• https://github.com/dino/dino
• https://dino.im/
• https://github.com/dino/dino/wiki/Tor