SchildiChat
For communication & messaging, SchildiChat is a self-hosted solution that provides schildiChat: Enhanced Matrix client with extras.
Overview
Matrix client / Element Web/Desktop fork SchildiChat is a feature-rich messenger for Matrix based on Element with some extras and tweaks. The project has 461 GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0.
Getting Started
Source: GitHub README
Debian build dependencies
Since Debian is usually slow to update packages on its stable releases,
some dependencies might not be recent enough to build SchildiChat.
The following are the dependencies required to build SchildiChat Web/Desktop on Debian 11 (bullseye):
## Normalized Features
*Source: tool-features-normalized.json*
apt, brew, mobile app, npm, pip.
<DeploymentOptions slug={frontmatter.slug} />Features
Mobile & Desktop
- Mobile App
Category
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