Open-source

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

Hazem Abbas

22 Sep 2020 — 1 min read

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

Lightweight application
Open-source (Libre) free app
End-to-end encryption via OMEMO or OpenPGP
Full Jabber/XMPP protocols support
Multi-lingual language support
Decentralized protocol
Supports many Linux distribution
Multi-user chat
Attachment support (Supports multiple image formats, documents and media files)
Emoji support
Secret chat support
Messages search
Multiple accounts option
Group chat support

Platforms

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

Supported languages

English
French
Spanish
Arabic (RTL)
German
Dutch
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
Italian
Hungarian
Japanese
Korean
Turkish

License

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

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