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Echowire

Self-hosted, federated chat platform with voice, video, threads, and scheduled events.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Echowire is a voice and video calling program, available on Windows. Other documented uses: messaging.

Features described in its Winget manifest: self-hosting on your own server.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Self-hosted, federated chat platform with voice, video, threads, and scheduled events.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “echowire is an instant messaging and VoIP chat app built for friends, groups, and communities.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “echowire is an instant messaging and VoIP chat app built for friends, groups, and communities.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Echowire is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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