zapek/Xeres

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

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Features

• 🤝 Peer-to-Peer (Friend-to-Friend), fully decentralized
• 🚫 No censorship
• 💬 Chat directly with your friends or in chat rooms
• 📢 Participate in forums and discuss any topic
• 📺 Publish files and news in channels
• 🖼️ Share pictures and links in boards
• 📞 Make voice calls with your friends
• 📂 Share and search files anonymously
• 👋 Compatible with Retroshare 0.6.6 or higher
• 🛠️ Strong and secure encryption (hardware accelerated)
• 🖥️ Modern user interface with several themes (Java FX, GPU accelerated)
• 📶 Remote access, access your instance on the go (Android mobile client available here)
• 🧠 Created by humans. No AI code generation.
• 📖 Free software (GPL)
• 😃 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

• User Documentation & FAQ
• Discussions & Forums
• Issues Reporting

Documentation

• Technical Documentation
• Roadmap

Development and contribution

• Development Help
• Contributing