Alternatives to Chitchatter
A peer-to-peer chat app in the browser that is serverless, decentralized and ephemeral. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Chitchatter
A peer-to-peer chat app in the browser that is serverless, decentralized and ephemeral.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Chitchatter.
Keet
A peer-to-peer chat app for encrypted messages, audio and video calls, and file transfers.
Keet is a peer-to-peer app installed on desktop and mobile that adds encrypted group video calls and file transfers, but your identity depends on keeping a 24-word seed phrase.
Jami
A fully peer-to-peer communication platform with no servers relaying your data and no personal information needed to sign up.
Jami is an open-source peer-to-peer desktop app with messaging, calls and screen sharing, and keeps history, but you install it and must back up your account key.
qTox
A desktop client for the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol with chat, calls and file transfer.
qTox is an open-source desktop client for the peer-to-peer Tox protocol with encrypted chat, calls and file transfer, and contacts must also use Tox.
Briar
Peer-to-peer encrypted messaging over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Tor.
Briar is an open-source peer-to-peer messenger for Android and Linux that can work over Bluetooth or local Wi-Fi without internet, though it is in maintenance mode.
Berty
An open-source peer-to-peer messenger that works without central servers and can operate offline.
Berty is an open-source peer-to-peer messenger for Android and iOS that can work offline, though its developers say it is not yet ready for high-risk use.
Ricochet Refresh
An anonymous peer-to-peer instant messenger that connects contacts directly over Tor onion services.
Ricochet Refresh is an open-source desktop messenger that connects contacts directly over Tor onion services, hiding IP addresses, but both contacts must be online at once.
Cwtch
Metadata-resistant messaging over Tor with no central servers.
Cwtch is an open-source messenger over Tor with no central servers and no account, designed to resist metadata collection, though delivery can be slow.
Freenet
A peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps that run without central servers, starting with River chat.
Freenet runs decentralized apps such as River chat without central servers, with a browser demo and desktop peers, though the browser version keeps your keys on the project's peer.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Jitsi Meet
Open-source WebRTC video meetings that run in the browser or in mobile apps.
Whereby Meetings
Browser-based video meetings in a fixed room URL, with no installs required.
SimpleX Chat
A messenger with no user identifiers at all, not even a random one, so there is no account to correlate.
Session
An encrypted messenger with no phone number and no account, routed through an onion network.
