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Rambox vs Pidgin: catalog facts
Rambox	Pidgin
Freemium A free plan is available. Additional features require a paid subscription.	Free Free and open source under the GPL. The project states it is free and contains no ads.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Several accounts of the same service signed in side by side Workspaces and unified notifications across hundreds of services	Signs in to several chat networks at once from one window XMPP, IRC, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE and Zephyr built in
The open-source community edition is end of life; the current product is closed source Running many web apps in one Electron window uses a lot of memory	The interface is unmistakably from another era Support for modern commercial networks depends on plugins that break when APIs change
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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