Self-hosted projects tagged “Chat”

Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is PHP-based social networking software to build your own community site with profiles, newsfeed, groups, chat, photos, and admin tools.

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Threads+1

Convos is a multiuser web IRC client with a built-in persistent bouncer, chat history, theming, rich formatting, and optional video chat.

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IRCCloud+3

Self-hostable web video conferencing app built on LiveKit, with large-meeting performance, screen sharing, chat, recordings, and transcription features.

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Zoom+19

Glowing Bear is a browser-based WeeChat client that connects to WeeChat via the relay plugin, providing a modern interface for IRC from any device.

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IRCCloud+3

Kiwi IRC is a web-based IRC client you can self-host as static files, with multi-network support, runtime JSON configuration, themes, plugins, and embeddable web widgets.

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IRCCloud+2

Self-hosted platform to archive Twitch VODs and live streams with real-time chat playback, rendered chat exports, playlists, and channel watching automation.

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PlayOn Cloud+2

Notifiarr is a unified client that delivers configurable notifications, health checks, and automation for homelab apps like Plex and the *Arr stack via Discord.

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Healthchecks.io+8

Modern, cross-platform IRC client with a detachable core for persistent connections, multi-client access, and searchable chat backlogs.

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IRCCloud+3

Open-source audience interaction platform for live presentations with real-time polls, quizzes, and Q&A, suitable for classrooms, meetings, and events.

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Slido+5

Apache OpenMeetings is a web conferencing and collaboration platform with video meetings, chat, whiteboards, screen sharing, recording, file sharing, and user/room manage...

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Zoom+11

Posio is a multiplayer geography game with real-time WebSocket rounds, map-based guessing, and multiple game modes built on Django, GeoDjango, and Channels.

Self-hosted, privacy-respecting pictionary game (skribbl.io alternative) with real-time drawing, guessing, and multiplayer lobbies—no accounts or ads required.

ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight IRC server for small/private networks, supporting IPv6, TLS, server linking, and optional PAM authentication.

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IRCCloud+3

UnrealIRCd is an open-source, modular IRC server implementing IRCv3, TLS, anti-spam/flood protections, GeoIP and admin APIs for running public or private IRC networks.

Lightweight, customizable Discord music bot in Python. Supports YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, Twitch, Lavalink playback, playlists, lyrics, slash commands and Docker.

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FredBoat+2

A protocol gateway that bridges users across different instant messaging networks using libpurple adapters, enabling cross-network chat and presence.

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Ably Realtime+5

Open-source platform to host, distribute and launch games on local networks with a dedicated launcher, game uploads/downloads, server management and basic chat.

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Steam+2

Self-hosted, open-source XMPP-based messaging server providing end-to-end encryption, multi-device sync, federation, secure backups, and integrated WebRTC audio/video cal...

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WhatsApp+17

Scalable, modular XMPP/Jabber server written in Java supporting TCP, BOSH, WebSockets, federation, components, HTTP API and push notifications.

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Skype+12

Web-based global administration and ban management system for Valve Source engine games, with a PHP web panel, SourceMod plugins, and MySQL/MariaDB backend.

Lightweight web application for synchronized video playback with chat, leader-controlled playback, subtitle/audio track support and Docker deployment.

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Watch2Gether+3

A modular, developer-friendly virtual tabletop that runs on Node.js/Electron, offering scenes, dynamic lighting, compendia and a rich module/system ecosystem.

Open-source conversational platform to build AI chatbots, multichannel live chat, and human-in-the-loop customer support with knowledge base and RAG capabilities.

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Tiledesk+19

Tracim is an open-source collaboration suite offering threaded conversations, file sharing with versioning, collaborative pages, tasks and workspace organization.

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Microsoft SharePoint+19

Community-focused server for private photo/video backup, albums, chat and audio/video calls with mobile app support and S3-compatible storage.

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Google Photos+10

Open-source, modular SIP server (proxy, presence, conference, B2BUA) with push gateway, ICE/STUN/TURN, MySQL/SQLite support; optimized for mobile and embedded systems.

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3CX+11

SAMA is a Node.js-based open-source chat server using uWebSockets.js, MongoDB and Redis, providing WebSocket/HTTP APIs, E2EE, clustering, and web/mobile clients.

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Sendbird+19

Atria is an AGPL-3.0 open-source platform for managing hybrid events, sessions, sponsors, and real-time attendee networking with chat and discovery tools.

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Whova+16

Faridoon is a lightweight PHP application for saving, moderating, and publishing favorite chat quotes. It supports user accounts, admin approval, Docker deployment and My...

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Tumblr+8

A small Debian-based server system for self-hosting email, chat, VoIP, wikis, blogs, social networks and other community services on modest hardware.

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YunoHost+5