Communication Software for macOS
Wickr
With Wickr you can control and protect your most critical communications. Unlike other video conferencing and collaboration platforms, Wickr Pro is end-to-end encrypted and built to scale for any Enterprise. Featuring unmatched security, total compliance, secure file transfer, SSO and MDM integration, Bots, full administrative controls and a whole lot more.
ICQ
ICQ is the oldest cross-platform messenger and VoIP client. It was originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, later sold to AOL in 1998. With ICQ you can stay connected with friends, family and co-workers. ICQ provides instant messaging andcan conver audio messages to text.
Freenet
Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. With the Freenet client you can browse websites, post on forums, and publish files within Freenet network with strong privacy protections.
Discord
A VoIP application and platform designed for creating communities and connecting gamers, and people rallying around specific causes. The Discord client is a free to use and can handle text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. Currently over 250 million users use the software to connect with others across the globe.
Mumble
Mumble is a free and open-source voice over IP application primarily designed for gamers. The application features a customizable in game overlay, application skins, conversation recording, and advanced voice activity detection. Anyone can download and use Mumble for free, but if you want your own server, you can rent a managed solution from the company behind Mumble, or host your own.
Pidgin
Pidgin is a chat application which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Pidgin is developed and released fully free and open-source and provides a plugin architecture that allow anyone to build extensions and connections to new networks and third-party services.
Viber
Viber is a cross-platform voice over IP application that allow people to make free and secure calls and messages to anyone, anywhere. With Viber, you can create group chats and make group calls, send stickers and emojis over chats that are 100% synced between devices, including 1-tap transfer of calls. Viber is available for free on Android, iOS, macOS, Linux and Windows.
Zulip
Zulip is an open-source real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones. Zulip provides modern apps for every major platform, powered by Electron and React Native. The software is 100% open source software, built by a vibrant community of hundreds of developers from all around the world.
join.me
Join.me is a screen sharing, online meetings and team collaboration application. With join.me you and your team can collaborate on projects over audio and video conferencing by phone or internet (VoIP) in real time. Join.me is perfect for remote work and let's team come closer togher.