# List of all known Client Projects **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 12, 2024, 10:02am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projects/3059 "2024-05-12T10:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simon](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://support.delta.chat/u/Simon)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 10:02am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projects/3059/1 "2024-05-12T10:02:21Z")
## Official These are the officially endorsed clients. These clients are the most “complete” in terms of functionality. Except for deltatouch all of them are maintained and published by [merlinux](https://merlinux.eu). ### deltachat-android Official android client, the first app that ever existed for deltachat. - fun fact: UI was originally forked from signal and then adjusted to look more like telegram. (at some point we also tried working with telegram’s ui, but their code was too strange for us to understand) - language: Java - git: [GitHub - deltachat/deltachat-android: Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Android](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android) ![screenshot of deltachat android](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cf44a2634937b2d3fe397b813f2f096413951a46.jpeg) ### deltachat-desktop Official desktop client based on electron - fun fact: Originally also started out as signal fork, but we have replaced/rewritten everything meanwhile, also this was at a time where signal desktop was also still a prototype. - language: TypeScript - git: [GitHub - deltachat/deltachat-desktop: Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for Desktop](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop) ![screenshot of deltachat-desktop](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9a76d9552d32caa6929d48b67cb898b3d005d1ae.png) ### deltachat-iOS Official iOS client - language: Swift - git: [GitHub - deltachat/deltachat-ios: Decentralized private messenger with chat-shared tools and games for iOS](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios) ![screenshot of chatlist in delta chat iOS](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5792d0d3a130a8cc8037f3b7058bd979b6447b11.png) ![screenshot of chat in delta chat iOS](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5e4991c93fff474bd900fa8db46bda0c3564327e.jpeg) > screenshots are from the dark mode, light-mode also exists, depends on you phones system settings, background image is customisable. Also the phone I made those screenshots is set to German, I apologise for that. ### deltatouch Client made with lomiri (ubuntu touch ui framework) for ubuntu touch linux phones - language: QML & C++ - author: lk108 - blogpost: [Introducing DeltaTouch, a new community created client for Ubuntu Touch - Delta Chat](https://delta.chat/en/2023-07-02-deltatouch) - git: [lk108/deltatouch: Decentralized, secure messenger app, powered by the chatmail core library. \Fediverse\: @deltatouch@social.tchncs.de - Codeberg.org](https://codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch) - appstore: [OpenStore](https://open-store.io/app/deltatouch.lotharketterer) - meanwhile also available as [flatpak](https://flathub.org/en/apps/page.codeberg.lk108.deltatouch) or [snap](https://snapcraft.io/deltatouch) which runs on other mobile Linux distros and even on desktop Linux. ![screenshot of chatlist](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f3201a13f2e3525dc3863b6904dfababe5865a33.jpeg) ![screenshot of chat](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e247f08ea025c9b02e6a737d56a6bdae49461bd6.jpeg) ## Alternative versions / Forks ### ArcaneChat client made by adb that has all kinds of tweaks and extra features - author: adb - git: [GitHub - ArcaneChat/android: ArcaneChat for Android: ⚡ Fast encrypted chats for the family](https://github.com/ArcaneChat/android) - fork of: deltachat-android - formerly known as DeltaLab - appstore: - [ArcaneChat | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository](https://f-droid.org/packages/chat.delta.lite) - [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.arcanechat](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.arcanechat) ![chatlist](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/0/09bc2e2b96111b4fdbfe325948835fdca4022daa.png) ![chat](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9525d0c34732b481cf81de79f51f1ec4d0499cbc.jpeg) ## Prototypes Clients that are still in an unfinished/prototype state. ### kdeltachat based on Qt and Kirigami (KDE’s Convergent UI framwork) - language: QML & c++ - author: link2xt - git: [~link2xt/kdeltachat - DeltaChat client built with Kirigami - sourcehut git](https://git.sr.ht/~link2xt/kdeltachat) ### ArcaneChat TUI TUI (Terminal User Interface) client based on urwid - language: python - author: adb - git: [GitHub - ArcaneChat/arcanechat-tui: [WIP] a lightweight ArcaneChat client for the command line](https://github.com/ArcaneChat/arcanechat-tui/) - formerly known as deltachat-cursed ![screnshot of terminal with deltachat-cursed](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/7/72dc68d9b3fc375d6b1a1af0d866054dcaa6ec61.png) ### dreamer native ui based on egui, ui is more slack/discord/rocket-chat like (no message bubbles) - language: rust - author: dignifiedquire, Septias - git: [GitHub - dignifiedquire/dreamer: Experimental deltachat client](https://github.com/dignifiedquire/dreamer) ![screenshot of dreamer](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/0/00d87dfaa820f518b2a16dd244d7122b978146c1.png) ## Abandoned Client Projects Nobody is working or planning to work on those currently. ### dc40 tauri and yew.rs based, ui is more slack/discord/rocket-chat like (no message bubbles) - fun fact: yes, the name is a pun on the popular product WD-40 - technical facts: - for some reason it used websocket instead of tauri ipc - still uses old core that used async\_std, so upgrading it to new core would be some work - language: rust backend, rust (wasm) frontend - author: dignifiedquire, Septias - git: [GitHub - deltachat/dc40: Experimental deltachat client](https://github.com/deltachat/dc40) ![Bildschirmfoto 2024-05-10 um 10.09.03](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0c313fe434cb885d732a1f9b6e918f58e53846b5.png) ### OX-COI (Open Exchange - Chat over IMAP) Flutter client for the OX COI Project, a meanwhile rested project/standard that open exchange tried to make. You might know it from the media coverage back then. - language: Dart - fork of: deltachat-core-rust, the client is an original made by them - [GitHub - coi-dev/ox-coi: OX COI Messenger - a Flutter app for the COI (Chat Over IMAP) standard](https://github.com/coi-dev/ox-coi) ![Pasted image 20240510055823](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8652cb46eabf597624347739c8cb775904b3d2a8.png) ### Deltachat Lite smaller version of dc with less features to save space, though main space saver was removing mapbox, which we [now have also done it the mainline android client](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/pull/3005#pullrequestreview-2022776484) - author: adb - git: [GitHub - ArcaneChat/android at lite](https://github.com/ArcaneChat/android/tree/lite) - fork of: deltachat-android ## Planned Clients that people have planned to make. ### DeltaChat Tauri An experimental port of deltachat desktop electron to tauri. - authors / people working on it: simon - status: beginning phase, [funded by nlnet](https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTauri/), @Simon will do a bigger announcement once the first work is done (in dc tradition we normally do not make many future promises before delivering) - exists already in [deltachat-desktop/packages/target-tauri at main · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/tree/main/packages/target-tauri), but no installable releases yet. (you can self compile if you like) ### Deltachat KaiOS - started as an idea in the forum, is is possible now thanks to jsonrpc - fun fact: prototypes of it were the first thing to use the jsonrpc api - authors / people that contributed: simon, strukturart, farooqkz - status: abandoned, stale (simon plans to revive it) ![mockup running on the kakos Nokia phone](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bb37bb6d7955e97aebe94a18ef9d896579db7c0c.jpeg) ![gif of emulator showing the app in action, already connected to core](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0971d706b9267dbe199d2944e565873031e38024.gif) ## Not really a client: ### REPL repl interface to manually test deltachat core - how to use it: [GitHub - chatmail/core: Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#using-the-cli-client) - git: [core/deltachat-repl at main · chatmail/core · GitHub](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/tree/main/deltachat-repl) ## How to get your client added to the list. Open a new topic on the forum about your new client with screenshots of it. In it ask/remind us to add it to the list. ---
**Author:** ![hpk](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/hpk/32/9_2.png) [@hpk](https://support.delta.chat/u/hpk)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projects/3059/2 "2024-05-13T12:57:38Z")
wow, this is a great list, thanks @Simon ! Only have a few minor notes but i think it could just go to [https://delta.chat/en/clients](https://delta.chat/en/clients) and we maintain it there. ---
**Author:** ![hpk](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/hpk/32/9_2.png) [@hpk](https://support.delta.chat/u/hpk)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projects/3059/3 "2025-04-26T12:14:10Z")
for the record, a new refined version of all “chatmail” clients is compiled here [Chatmail: Clients](https://chatmail.at/clients) ---
**Author:** ![Minim](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@Minim](https://support.delta.chat/u/Minim)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projects/3059/4 "2026-05-26T14:20:06Z")
More clients in development! > [@Gnome-native deltachat app](https://support.delta.chat/t/gnome-native-deltachat-app/5056): > > It’s not mine, @trufae has been working on this nice native app: and [https://git.sakamoto.pl/j-g00da/deltarat-experiments](https://git.sakamoto.pl/j-g00da/deltarat-experiments) Finally, work on making Bower (a TUI mailclient using Notmuch) Chatmail-compatible: > [@Document the minimum requirements necessary for chatmail interoperability](https://support.delta.chat/t/document-the-minimum-requirements-necessary-for-chatmail-interoperability/4853/): > > I am currently working on Delta Chat interoperability for bower/notmuch ( [GitHub - wangp/bower: A curses terminal client for the Notmuch email system · GitHub](https://github.com/wangp/bower) , [https://notmuchmail.org](https://notmuchmail.org)). My goal is to support enough of the features Delta Chat uses that I can comfortably use my command line email setup to exchange messages with Delta Chat users. Currently, I am also using my command line setup in Multi Device Mode together with the Delta Chat Android app from F-Droid. A couple of days back, I ra… ---
**Author:** ![r10s](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://support.delta.chat/u/r10s)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projects/3059/5 "2026-10-06T15:41:10Z")