Welcome to frei.chat!

frei.chat was opened on January 23rd, 2022 and enjoys new users every day. Take the opportunity and chat with your friends on frei.chat or other Matrix servers worldwide. Connect your WhatsApp, Telegram, Singal or other social networks.

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• Frontend clients
  • Element
  • Android / iOS and other platform clients
• End-to-end encrypted Matrix chats (federation wide)
• Bridges to third party messenger
  • WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.
  • End-to-bridge encrypted bridge chats
• Bots to extend chat functionality
  • Maubot: Query RSS feeds, conect to Github and Gitlab
  • Postmoogle: Your very own @frei.chat mail address
• Internal push service via NTFY
• Retention policy for local and remote media at 30 days
• Sliding sync for ElementX (Android and iOS)
• Regular software updates

Hosted by frei.chat

These are some additional services by frei.chat. They are completely free to use.

Password safe: Vaultwarden Alternative implementation of Bitwarden. Features: Organizations support Attachments and Send Vault API support Serving the static files for Vault interface Website icons API Authenticator and U2F support YubiKey and Duo support Emergency Access Links: Create an account Project website Github project	Pastebin: PrivateBin PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.   Links: Encrypt now Project site
Search machine: Searx-NG Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.   Links: Search now Github project	PDF editor: Stirling PDF Manipulate, expand, extract data from PDFs and many more features.    Links PDF Editor Github project
Wallabag: Read it later wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading. Click, save and read it when you want. It extracts content so that you won't be distracted by pop-ups and cie.   Links Register now Official site	FreshRSS: RSS-Reader FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator.   Links Register now Github project

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Offical Matrix server list Check out the official joinmatrix.org servers list site for a different server.

Service uptime and updates

Uptime Kuma is checking constantly if all services are online and responding.
https://upt.frei.chat/status/frei-chat

If you are interested which versions of each module frei.chat is running you can find a complete list here.

Latest updates

2026-10-30 (Git hash: c5d7589c3)

Initial recorded baseline: no earlier deployment snapshot is available for comparison.

Recorded versions:

• Element Web: v1.12.33
• Synapse: v1.164.1
• ntfy: v2.35.0
• Maubot: v0.6.0
• Draupnir: v3.2.0

Bridges — recorded versions:

• Bluesky: v0.2510.0
• Discord: v0.7.7
• Google Messages: v0.2610.0
• Instagram: v0.2610.0 (image tag: ig-v0.2610.0)
• LinkedIn: v0.2609.0
• Messenger: v0.2610.0
• Signal: latest (image tag) — image ID sha256:7b515bcaa9d825951
• Slack: v0.2610.0
• Telegram: v0.2610.0
• WhatsApp: v0.2610.0