Tox Messenger – An Open Source alternative for Skype

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Tox Messenger – An Open Source alternative for Skype

About Tox

Tox is a free, open source, end-to-end encrypted messenger that allows you to communicate securely with your family, and friends. It is completely decentralized, peer-to-peer messenger without relying on any central server. The communication between you and your friend should always remain private and secure. Nobody knows what you’re communicating, except the recipient of course. The idea behind the development of Tox was born when the NSA whistle bowler Edward Snowden’s leaks of NSA spying activity. The Tox project has been started by single anonymous developer back in 2013, and now hundreds of active developers are contributing to this project.

Tox will not reveal your personal identity such as your name, IP address, or OS details etc., to any non-authorized users. It enforces end-to-end encryption on both sides while communicating with your friends. Since it is completely decentralized, your messages will not be stored in any central location. So, there won’t be any data leakage on either sides.

Tox supports Linux, Windows, OSX, BSD, and Android operating systems right now, and of course the developers are working hard to extend this project to other platforms as well. Tox is completely free as in freedom, so that you can use, modify, and share it to others. Tox is still under heavy development, so you might be encountered with some bugs while using it.

Tox has many significant features such as:

Send and receive instant messages with friends ;
Make completely free and encrypted voice calls (Audio chat) ;
Communicate with face-to-face secure video calls (Video chat);
Share your desktop with others with Tox’s screen sharing ;
Share unlimited files of any size to your friends ;
Group chat ;
Call any one in the group ;
Share files with group members ;
and many yet to come.

Install Tox clients on Linux

The following is a list of Tox clients available for various platforms.

qTox – A graphical user interface for Tox. It is available for Linux, Windows, OSX, BSD, and Android ;
uTox – A graphical user interface for Tox. It is available for Linux, Windows, OSX, BSD, and Android ;
Ricin – A graphical user interface for Tox. It is available for Linux ;
Toxic – A Command line interface for Tox. It is available for Linux, OSX, and BSD ;
Antox – A graphical user interface for Tox. It is available for Android ;
Antidote – A graphical user interface for Tox. It is available for iOS.

For more details about Tox clients follow this link:

https://tox.chat/clients.html

At present, Tox supports only few Linux operating systems such as Arch Linux, Gentoo, and Ubuntu. Support for more Linux distros will be coming soon.