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.
Features include:
- 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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