Ferdium
Combines your messaging and web services into one window with workspaces, as a community fork of Franz with the restrictions removed.
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Package managers
- winget
winget install --id Ferdium.Ferdium - Chocolatey
choco install ferdium - Homebrew
brew install --cask ferdium - Flathub
flatpak install flathub org.ferdium.Ferdium - Snap Store
snap install ferdium
About Ferdium
Ferdium is a hard fork of Franz, made because Franz put features behind a paid account. It puts your messaging services, WhatsApp Web, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams, Gmail and hundreds more, into a single application with a service sidebar, so you are not keeping fifteen browser tabs open.
Workspaces group services so you can switch between a work set and a personal set, and a Todos panel stays open alongside. Ferdium adds features Franz did not have and removes the usage restrictions; it remains compatible with an existing Franz account if you are migrating.
Each service is a web view, so this is fundamentally a specialised browser: memory use scales with how many services you keep loaded.
Strengths
- Hundreds of services supported, with workspaces to group them
- No paid account or usage restrictions, unlike the Franz it forked from
- Compatible with an existing Franz account for people migrating
- Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD builds, with custom CSS styling supported
Limitations
- Each service is a web view, so memory use grows quickly with many services
- Service integrations break when a provider changes its web app
- Notifications can be less reliable than a native app for the same service
- It cannot add features a service's web version does not have
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under Apache 2.0. Unlike Franz, the project states it does not restrict usage.
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Developer
- Ferdium
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Keeping a dozen chat and web services in one window instead of a browser full of tabs
- Categories
- Messaging
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Messaging); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.