Status App

The Status App is a privacy-first, decentralised messenger built with Nim and Qt/QML. It offers end-to-end encrypted messaging, community chats, and Ethereum wallet integration — all without requiring a phone number or email.

📑 Table of Contents

• Status App
  • 📑 Table of Contents
  • 🚀 Download & Install
    • Supported Versions
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • macOS
  • 🛠️ Build from Source
  • 🤝 Contributing
  • 📚 Documentation

🚀 Download & Install

Get the latest release for your platform:

• Android: Play Store
• Apple: App Store
• Windows: Download EXE
• Linux: Download Tarball
• macOS: Download DMG

Supported Versions

Platform	Supported versions	Notes
Windows	Intel chip (no native Windows ARM build yet)	Windows 11 is used for testing
Linux	Continuous effort to support the lowest Ubuntu LTS version.	Actively tested on Ubuntu 22.04; should run on most Linux flavours using glibc 2.31 or newer
macOS	ARM chip	MacOS latest version
Android	9 to 16
iOS	17 and higher

Windows

1. Download the .exe file.
2. Run the .exe installer.
3. Launch the installed app 🎉

Linux

1. Download the .tar.gz file.
2. Extract the tarball file (replace * with the version)

   cd ~/Downloads
   tar xvf StatusIm-Desktop-*.tar.gz
   

3. Optionally, verify the Status app GPG signature.
4. Go to the directory where it extracted and double-click the AppImage file 🎉

macOS

1. Download the .dmg file.
2. Open it and drag Status.app to the Applications folder.
3. Open the Applications folder and double-click the Status icon 🎉

🛠️ Build from Source

To build Status from source, follow the instructions specific to your operating system. Detailed build instructions are available in the official documentation:

• Building Desktop
• Building Mobile

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! To get started:

• Read our Contributing Guidelines.
  • Developing Status
  • Testing Status
• Check out good first issues to get involved.
• Join the #feedback-desktop and #feedback-mobile channels on Status.

📚 Documentation

• 📘 User Help documentation
• 🛠️ Installation Guide
• 🏗️ Building Desktop from Source
• 📱 Building Mobile from Source
• 🏛️ Architecture Docs
• 🤝 Contributing Guide
• 💡 You have an idea for a cool feature or improvement?
• 🗺️ Status Roadmap
  • 🌟 Feature FURPS

 

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For more information, visit our official website or explore our GitHub organization.

This project is tested with BrowserStack.