Mirage – customizable, keyboard-operable Matrix chat client

Mirage is a fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable Matrix chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication.

This software is in an alpha stage of development.

Mirage is free and open source software.

Key Features

• General:
  • Fluid, responsive interface that adapts to any window size.
  • Toggleable compact mode.
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts for everything, including switching rooms, navigating messages, sending/opening files…
  • Versatile theming system, properties can refer to each other and have any valid ECMAScript 7 expression as values:
    • Comes by default with dark and transparent themes.
  • Desktop notifications, sounds and window alerts.
  • Support for HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies including TOR.
• Accounts:
  • Built-in public homeservers list.
  • Multiple accounts in one client.
  • SSO and password authentication.
  • Set your display name and profile picture.
  • Import/export E2E key files.
  • Inspect, rename, manually verify and sign out one or multiple sessions.
  • Sessions for accounts within the same client automatically verify each others.
  • Set your account’s presence to online, unavailable, invisible or offline.
  • Set custom status messages.
  • Automatically set your status to unavailable after a period of inactivity.
  • Advanced push rules editor.
• Rooms:
  • Create, join, leave and forget rooms.
  • Send, accept and refuse invites.
  • Edit the room’s name, topic, invite requirement, guest access and enable E2E.
  • Kick, ban and set the power level of users.
  • Pin rooms to the top of the list.
  • Unread message and highlight counters.
  • Sending read receipts to mark rooms as read.
  • Seeing who has read a message and when.
  • Inspect and manually verify other users’ E2E sessions.
  • See other users’ presence, status message and last seen time.
  • Typing notifications.
• Messages:
  • Send and receive E2E encrypted messages.
  • Send and receive emote messages (e.g. /me reads attentively).
  • Receive notice (bot) messages.
  • Send markdown formatted messages.
  • Additional syntax for coloring text, e.g. (Some text…) – SVG/CSS color names, #RGB, #RRGGBB and #AARRGGBB hex codes can be used.
  • Send and receive normal or E2E encrypted files.
  • Client-side Matrix & HTTP URL image previews, including animated GIF.
  • Upload images by pasting or drag-and-drop.
  • Full-size image viewer.
  • User ID, display names, room ID and room aliases mentions.
  • Autocompletion for usernames and user ID.
  • Individual and mass message removal.
  • Sending rich replies.

Website: github.com/mirukana/mirage
Support: Documentation
Developer: Mirage authors & contributors
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

Mirage is written in QML and Python. Learn QML with our recommended free tutorials. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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