Most people are probably familiar with Franz, and open source messaging app that combines a lot of chat and messaging services into one app. Great app but on the free version you can only add 3 services to use at the same time. Want more services? You’ll have to pay a monthly subscription.
That’s where Ferdi comes in. Ferdi is a hard-fork of Franz that adds some awesome features and removes unwanted ones.
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Ferdi-specific Features
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- Removes the counter-productive fullscreen app delay inviting users to upgrade
- Removes pages begging you to donate after registration
- Remove “Franz is better together” popup
- Remove bug that would incorrectly display unread messages count on some services
- Makes all users Premium by default
- Using the Ferdi API instead of Franz’s servers
- Add option to change server to a custom ferdi-server
- Add option to use Ferdi without an account
- Add “Private Notification”-Mode, that hides message content from notifications
- Add Password Lock feature to keep your messages protected
- Add an option to keep individual workspaces always loaded
- Add universal Dark-Mode via the DarkReader extension
- Add an option to auto-hide the menubar
- Add “Quick Switch” feature to help you navigate a long list of services (similar to Rambox’s Quick Switcher)
- Add “Service Hibernation” that will automatically unload services when they are unused
- Add “Scheduled Do-not-Disturb” feature in which you won’t get notifications (similar to Rambox’s Work Hours)
- Add CTRL+← and CTRL+→ shortcuts and menu options to go back and forward in the service browsing history
- Add option to show a browser-like navigation bar on all services
- Add option to change accent color
- Add portable version for Windows
- Add Process Manager to find services using a lot of resources
- Add “npm run prepare-code” command for development to lint and beautify code
- Add button to open darkmode.css for a service
- Switch to electron-spellchecker ti improve application size
- Improve “About Ferdi” screen to better display versions
- Minifying build files to improve app size
- Makes it possible to edit the “Franz Todo” server
- Makes RocketChat self-hosted generally available
- Comes with a custom branding proper to Ferdi
Download Ferdi for macOS, Linux and Windows here. On macOS you can also install Ferdi via Homebrew ( brew cask install ferdi ). For more info on Ferdi check this.
