The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable LAN messengers.

General information

Basic general information about the LAN messengers: creator/company, license/price, among others.

Protocol Author, creator First public release date Latest stable version Cost (USD) Software license Programming language
BeeBEEP[1][2] BeeBEEP Protocol Marco Mastroddi 2010 5.8.6 (February 13, 2023) No cost GPL-3.0-or-later C++ and Qt
BORGChat ? Ionut Cioflan 2002 v1.0.0 b438 (March 31, 2007 (2007-03-31)) [±] No cost[3] Proprietary ?
Briar Bramble Protocol Briarproject.org 2018 1.4.19 (January 4, 2023) No cost GPL-3.0-or-later Java
iChat Bonjour IM Protocol Apple Inc. 2002 6.0.1 (1002) (February 1, 2012) bundled with OS Proprietary Likely Objective-C
iptux[4] Windows Messenger service Jally, ManPT, others 2008 0.51 (November 20, 2009) No cost[5] GPL-2.0-or-later ?
Miranda NG Windows Messenger service Roland Rabien 2000 0.96.1 (June 2, 2022) No cost GPL-2.0-or-later C/C++
Pidgin[6] Bonjour IM Protocol Mark Spencer, others 1998 2.14.12 (December 31, 2022) No cost GPL-2.0-or-later C
qTox Tox Protocol Tux3  ? 1.17.6 (March 7, 2022) No cost GPL-3.0-or-later C++ and Qt

Operating system support

The operating systems the messengers can run on without emulators or compatibility layers.

Client Windows Mac OS Linux Android iOS BSD Other
BeeBEEPYesYesYesNoNoYesRaspberry OS
BORGChatYesNoNoNoNoNo
BriarNoNoNoYesNoNo
iChatNoYesNoNoNoNo
iptux
Miranda NGYesNoNoNoNoNo
PidginYesYesYesFreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD
Solaris

Illumos
qToxYesYesYesNoNoFreeBSD

Features

Information on what features each of the clients support.

Toolkits or SDKs Private messages Private chat Public chat Message board Encryption File transfer Unicode (UTF-8) Message filtration Graphical smileys Message logging Whiteboard Terminal Service Compatibility User base in Active Directory Serverless (No server required)
BeeBEEP No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
BORGChat No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes
Briar No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes
iChat 1 No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No No No No No No No
iptux No Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes
Miranda NG ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ? ? ? Yes
qTox No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes

Note 1: Using Apple's Bonjour protocol

See also

References

  1. "BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger)". SourceForge.net. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  2. Wallen, Jack (2012-08-22). "Get LAN-based interoffice secure chat with BeeBEEP". techrepublic.com. TechRepublic. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  3. "BORGChat". Softpedia. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  4. Wallen, Jack (2010-09-17). "Instant message on your LAN with iptux". ghacks.net. Ghacks. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  5. "iptux". freecode.com. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  6. "Use Pidgin for Chatting And Transferring Files on Local Network Without Internet Connection". ubuntubuzz.com. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
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