Social & Communication Software

A transactional email platform from the email service provider MailChimp. Mandrill can be used to send transactional emails from web applications and third-party service. An API is provided by Mandrill that makes it east to integrate your application to the Mandrill platform.

A mobile group messaging app developed and owned by Microsoft. GroupMe was first launched in 2010, today the application has over 12 million registered users that engage in group communication. The application makes it easy to stay in touch with those who really matter to you, and to do so in groups.

Slack is a new way to communicate with your team in a faster, better organized, and more secure than email. The software is designed for business looking to improve their communication work flow. Slack offers features like persistent chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging that is built for teamwork.

Zoho Mail provides ad-free email hosting for business and organizations. It's comes with intuitive migration tools, along with 24/7 dedicated migration support to ensure smooth, lossless migration from your existing email provider. With Zoho Mail, your organization can manage all their email, calendar and contact needs. Since Zoho Mail is part of the Zoho's suite of online productivity, it's easy to extend the capability in to more parts of Zoho's offering and essentially run your entire business with Zoho. Zoho is provided as a Freemium software, where the free plan supports up to 5 users in an organization.

Jitsi is an open-source project and software toolset that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.  Jitsi supports popular protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Google Hangouts, OTR, ZRTP and more.

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.

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.

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.

Telegram X is a development version of the chat application Telegram. The goal of Telegram X is to reinvent Telegram and explore new frontiers in speed, ease of use, quality of animations, and all other aspects surrounding online communication. Telegram X is an experimental app that may or may not eventually replace the existing official Telegram, or simply used as a public beta test.

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.

With Google Hangouts, you can keep in touch with through chat, video or voice calls in person or as a group. Google Hangouts is a cross-platform messaging app developed by Google that is available for Android, Chrome OS, iOS, Google Chrome or any browser that is compatible with Google Chrome Extensions.

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.

Digsby is a free multiprotocol IM client for Windows. The software lets you stay in contact with people and friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber. Digsby also allow you to get alerts from your friends of various social networks such as MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. All this makes Digsby a well-rounded choice for staying up-to-date and in contact with people across the internet.

LuckyCrush is a free web-based and mobile dating application. With LuckyCrush you can start a private video chat with a random, opposite-sex partner. If you don't like your match, just click "next" to be connected with a new partner. Finding a face to face date from all over the world have never been easier.

Gab is a free social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online. All thoughts and ideas are welcome at Gab.

Steemit is a blockchain-based blogging platform and social media application that rewards its users with the cryptocurrency STEEM for publishing and curating content. On Steemit you can publish blog posts on any topic and get rewarded by doing so. You can also be rewarded by upvoting and curating post that the other users deems noteworthy.

World's largest secure email service providing end-to-end encrypted email accounts. ProtonMail is based in Geneva, Switzerland and protected by Swiss privacy laws. The software is openly developed with fully open source code.

Mastodon is a free and open source decentralized social network that is used by over 4.4 million people. At mastodon you can follow friends, discover and rally around topics, and share links, pictures, text, video, much like Twitter. The main difference with Mastodon is the decentralized nature of the software. Anyone is free to start their own Mastodon server, that automatically interconnects with all the other Mastodon servers. Since the network is community-owned and not backed by any venture capital you can be sure that your data will not be monitized and that you will have an ad-free experience.

Chatroulette is the original internet-breaking random video and text chatroom. With Chatroulette you can meet guys, girls, celebrities, musicians, comics, and all sorts of fascinating people through video or chat-based conversations. No login is required to start communicating Chatroulette, and instantly be connected with millions of people across the globe.

Upvotocracy zero-moderation social sharing service similar to Reddit. With Upvotocracy you can earn Karma that will be paidout in Bitcoin's satoshi denomination. Upvotocracy is a free and open-source software built with Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose and Svelte.

Element is an All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations that allow you to own your conversations. With Element you can keep conversations in your control, safe from data-mining and ads. Element utilize the open and global Matrix network for message relay, protected by proven end-to-end encryption.

TeamSpeak is a VOIP application that provides military-grade encryption making it ideal choice for your company's, teams and gamers internal, closed-loop communications systems. TeamSpeak is known for its lag-free performance & unparalleled reliability and uptime.

A free and ethical photo sharing platform, powered by ActivityPub federation protocol. Pixelfed is open-sourced software licensed under the AGPL license.

VK is a Russian online social media and social networking service similar to that of Facebook. The social network is provided to a global audience but is predominantly used by Russian-speaking users. VK allows user to share their life with others publicly or privately through image, audio, video and text. Users can also create groups and public pages around topics and events.

With ExpireBox, you can chat and meet new friends around the world. ExpireBox is a web-based chat and filesharing tool that can be used freely by anyone.

Likee is a global short video creation and sharing platform as well as a famous video making app. With Likee you can create and broadcast short video clips to the world with features cutting-edge video making & editing tools, video music, video photos and more.

Vivaldi Mail is free email service and email client that includes multi-account support, mailing lists, filters, flags, keyboard shortcuts, and labels. Vivaldi Mail is built by the people behind the Vivaldi web browser and is provided as advertisement free mail client.

Badoo is a location-based social service used by over 500 million people world-wide. With Badoo, you can chat, date and meet new people in your area. The service is designed to help you find people nearby who share similar intrests as yours.

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GNU social connects you to a free network of thousands of communities that discuss daily on a variety of topics, each being part of the whole. GNU social supports both single-user and community modes and can be used in an intranet environment or as part of the wider open network. The free and open source microblogging server is written in PHP and built on-top of the OStatus standard for inter-operation between installations.

Triller is an social media and entertainment platform built for creators. With Triller, you can capture videos and share them with your audience in a matter of seconds. The platform is heavily favoured by artists, especially in the music industry. Artists use Triller to create music videos on the fly to reach their audience and build new ones.

Yahoo Mail is an online email service provider that is used by over 225 million users. With Yahoo Mail you can send and recive emails and have an organized inbox thanks to an intuetive interface that allow to categorize and move your communications based on type. Yahoo Mail can be customized and themed according your liking, and got built in support for media such as images, files and GIFs.

FastMail is a secure, private, independent, online email provider. Get started with FastMail today, with Gmail transfer tool.

Pleroma is a free and open source, federated, social networking server built on open protocols. It consists of several openly developed components, including the Pleroma server and the default Pleroma frontend. Since Pleroma is built for the fediverse it is compatible with other socially federated networks such as GNU Social, Mastodon, and many other ActivityPub implementations.

Yandex.Mail is an online email provider by the Russian internet giant Yandex. With Yandex.Mail you get secure protection from viruses and spam, mail sorting, highlighting of email from real people, free 10 GB of cloud storage on Yandex.Disk, beautiful themes.

StumbleUpon was a popular content and website discovery platform that discontinued its operation in June 2018. With StumbleUpon, users could enjoy fresh websites and content delivered to them at random or by randomly by category, or randomly by user preference. In 2019 the creators of StumbleUpon created a new content-based discovery platform called Mix.

With Telegram people can communicate and via instant messaging and voice over IP. Telegram is a cloud-based software and services that have a focus on privacy, speed and security. The client was initially created by the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, the creators of the Russian social network VK back in 2013. Today the application is used cross-platform by over 400 million users world-wide.

Trends starts with TikTok. It's a application and social network used by millions to watch, discover and create personalized short videos. TikTok is developed by Chinese tech giant ByteDance.

Skype is a telecommunications application that specialize in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices and consoles. The software allows you to connect with friends and business colleges worldwide. Skype provides free online calls, messaging, affordable international calling to mobiles or landlines and Skype for Business for effective collaboration among teams.

A web-based service for internal instant messaging and private chat for organizations. HipChat provides one-on-one and group and topic-based chat, as well as cloud-based file storage, video calling, searchable message-history and inline-image viewing. You can use HipChat natively on your desktop or mobile phone, or web browser. HipChat is available for Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows and the Web.

A free an open-source email client developed openly by the Mozilla Foundation and the community. Thunderbird is easy to setup and customize and supports POP and IMAP. The email client comes with all features needed to search, filter, write and manage emails, but also have builtin support for live chat between contact and RSS/Atom feed reader.

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iMeetzu provides a random live video chat and text chat rooms experience that is in many ways similar to that of Chatroulette, Omegle, and Camzap. With iMeetzu you can connect randomly with people across the world via video or text chat. On top of that iMeetzu provides a stranger social network where you can register and save your new friends so that you can keep in contact with them far into the future.

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Chatrandom makes it easy to talk to strangers across the globe. Its a video chat application that randomly pairs you with other connected users around the world for a one-to-one video chat. Thousands of people use Chatrandom to connect with new people daily. When you press start, you will be instantly paired with a random stranger. Press next to skip the current chat and be connected with another person. If you are looking for people closer to you, you can simply filter by country and region.

Shagle is a free video chat platform that connects people randomly for one-to-one conversations. It makes it quick and simple to meet new strangers online. Shagle provides filter that makes it easy to find girls, guys and couples on webcam and establish genuine and lasting connections.

Docsify is an all-in-one mail tracker for Gmail that includes email, link, and attachment tracking. Docsify can help you increase your productivity when using Gmail as it helps you create and use your own emtail templates and schedule emails.

Discover the world's top designers and creative minds with Dribble. It's a platform where designers gain inspiration, feedback, community, and jobs and is your best resource to discover and connect with designers worldwide. Dribble allow anyone to create a profile where they can showcase their work and interact with the community through projects, collections, shots and likes.

With Ning you can create your own social network specifically geared towards a topic or community. You don’t have to be a developer to start building with Ning, their drag-and-drop network builder empowers you to easily create a professional website and social network in a matter of minutes. You can also customize your network with HTML and CSS and make it your own. Through solid integrations with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google, user registrations becomes as simple as clicking a button. To-date, Ning has been used by over 2 million people and organizations to create immersive social networks and communities.

Tinychat is easy and free video chat rooms for all. It allows you to browse through the free video chat rooms to meet new people. With TinyChat, you can also create your very own chat room and invite friends, family or strangers. No download or signup is required to use TinyChat, simply start by entering or opening a chat room.