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Xeres is a Friend-to-Friend, decentralized and secure application for communication and sharing.

Xeres Desktop

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Features

  • ๐Ÿค Peer-to-Peer (Friend-to-Friend), fully decentralized
  • ๐Ÿšซ No censorship
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ Chat directly with your friends or in chat rooms
  • ๐Ÿ“ข Participate in forums and discuss any topic
  • ๐Ÿ“บ Publish files and news in channels
  • ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Share pictures and links in boards
  • ๐Ÿ“ž Make voice calls with your friends
  • ๐Ÿ“‚ Share and search files anonymously
  • ๐Ÿ‘‹ Compatible with Retroshare 0.6.6 or higher
  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Strong and secure encryption (hardware accelerated)
  • ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Modern user interface with several themes (Java FX, GPU accelerated)
  • ๐Ÿ“ถ Remote access, access your instance on the go (Android mobile client available here)
  • ๐Ÿ“– Free software (GPL)
  • ๐Ÿ˜ƒ Available for Windows, Linux and macOS

Releases

Latest release

Android mobile client

Docker image (for headless installations)

Want to try quickly?

Install Xeres then connect to a ChatServer.

Running from source

Install JDK 25 then type ./gradlew bootRun

Getting Help

Documentation

Development