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.

   Register your personal account now!

Importan information for new users:
Registration via Element chat is currently not possible. Please use the Schildichat app. Logins via Element are still possible!

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Features

• Frontend clients
  • Element
  • Schildichat
  • 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 feed, conect to Github and Gitlab
  • Postmoogle: You very own @frei.chat mail address
• Internal push service via NTFY
• Retention policy for local and remote media 7 days
• Sliding sync for ElementX (Android and iOS)
• Regular software updates

Additional services

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

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 Github project	Piped An open-source alternative frontend for YouTube which is efficient by design.   Links: Watch now Github project
Searx-NG Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.   Links: Search now Github project	PrivateBin PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.   Links: Encrypt now Project site
Alternative Matrix services If you are a power user and need your own server, check out etke.cc. For business users and those interested in paid services, I recommend combi.chat.

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

2024-10-08 (Git hash: d2c8491e)

• Element bump to v1.11.80
• Synapse bump to v.1.116.0
• Bridges
  • Facebook bump to v0.4.0
  • Gmessages bump to v0.5.0
  • Instagram bump to v0.4.0
  • Signal bump to v0.7.1
  • Slack bump to v0.1.1