Venom is a modern Tox client.
The client uses toxcore and libconfig.
Venom is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Encrypted profiles and database.
- Secure, private messaging.
- Read receipts.
- Contact aliases.
- Compact contact list.
- Customizable avatars.
- Emojis.
- File transfers.
- Screenshot sharing.
- Group chats.
- Socks5 Proxy support.
- Spell checking.
- Sound notifications.
- Faux offline messaging.
- Identicons – a visual representation of a hash value, usually of an IP address, that serves to identify a user of a computer system as a form of avatar while protecting the user’s privacy.
- Internationalization support
Website: github.com/naxuroqa/Venom
Support:
Developer: naxuroqa and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Venom is written in Vala. Learn Vala with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Tox Clients | |
|---|---|
| qTox | Instant messaging, video conferencing with a simple and intuitive interface |
| Toxic | ncurses based client which formerly resided in the Tox core repository |
| µTox | Lightweight Tox client with minimal dependencies |
| Venom | Modern client written in Vala |
| Toxygen | Powerful cross-platform client written in Python |
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