Awesome XMPP

A curated list of amazingly awesome XMPP server, clients, libraries, resources - with focus on security.

Table of Contents

• Awesome XMPP
  • Protocol
  • Server
  • Clients
  • Encryption protocols
  • Libraries
  • Bots
  • Further Reading

Protocol

• RFC 6120
• Protocol Extensions

Server

• ejabberd (Linux/macOS/Solaris/Windows)
• jabberd2 (Linux/*BSD/Solaris/Windows)
• Metronome (Linux/macOS)
• Mongoose (Linux/macOS)
• Openfire (Linux/macOS/Solaris/Windows)
• Prosody (Linux/macOS/Windows)
• Vines (Linux/macOS)

Clients

• ChatSecure (iOS)
• Conversations (Android 4+)
• coy.im (Windows/Linux/macOS)
• gajim (Windows/Linux)
• Monal (macOS/iOS)
• Profanity (Linux/macOS/FreeBSD/Windows)
• Dino (Linux)
• Converse.js (Web Browser)

Encryption protocols

• OMEMO
• OTR
• OPENPGP

Libraries

• C
  • https://github.com/mcabber/loudmouth
  • https://github.com/strophe/libstrophe
• C++
  • https://github.com/qxmpp-project/qxmpp
• C#
  • https://github.com/ubiety/xmpp
  • https://github.com/meebey/agsxmpp
• Go
  • https://github.com/agl/xmpp-client
  • https://github.com/mattn/go-xmpp
• Java
  • https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack
  • https://bitbucket.org/sco0ter/babbler
• NodeJS
  • https://github.com/node-xmpp/node-xmpp
• Objective-C
  • https://github.com/robbiehanson/XMPPFramework
• PHP
  • https://github.com/fabiang/xmpp
  • https://github.com/alexmace/Xmpp
• Python
  • https://lab.louiz.org/poezio/slixmpp
• Ruby
  • https://github.com/xmpp4r/xmpp4r
• Rust
  • https://github.com/Florob/rust-xmpp
  • https://gitlab.com/xmpp-rs/xmpp-rs

Bots

• Errbot
• Hubot
• Lita

Further Reading

• Are we OMEMO yet?
• Encrypted Instant Messaging January 2017
• End-to-End Encrypted group chats via XMPP
• The State of Mobile XMPP in 2016
• The (Sad) State of Mobile XMPP in 2014