FluffyChat

Famedly GmbH

About this app

FluffyChat is an open, nonprofit and cute Matrix messenger app for Ubuntu Touch, Android and iOS.

Open
Opensource and open development where everyone can join.

Nonprofit
FluffyChat is donation funded.

Cute ♥
Cute design and many theme settings including a dark mode.

One-to-one and group chats
Unlimited groups and direct chats.

Easy
FluffyChat is made as simple to use as possible.

Free
Free to use for everyone without ads.

Decentralized
There is no "FluffyChat server" you are forced to use. Use the server you find trustworthy or host your own.

Compatible
Compatible with Element, Fractal, Nheko and all Matrix messengers.


FluffyChat comes with a dream

Imagine a world where everyone can choose the messenger they like and is still able to chat with all of their friends.
A world where there are no companies spying on you when you send selfies to friends and your loved.
And a world where apps are made for fluffyness and not for profit. ♥

Ratings and reviews

Much better than element, and ditto, however one thing I'm seriously missing in all clients though is the preview feature when a link or attachment is posted. Element doesn't have the ability to edit permissions, this does If you post a link it will read the meta and show you an image or for a YouTube link it'll show you the thumbnail. Seems like only element has this feature. Another very useful thing would be for a progress bar with a percentage when uploading or downloading files.

Works well enough for a Matrix client but has some weird quirks and bugs. It is difficult to get to the last read message for example, and fails most of the time. Or the fact that opening a chat doesnt automatically mark it as read.

Definitely the prettiest client, but way too slow and startup takes ages (Likely something to do with E2E). Animation is very choppy. I doubt it is a hardware issue as other Jetpack Compose Material 3 apps work well. Having this as an avtive device also caused some issues with the online backup, but after removing FluffyChat the subsequent messages were backed up just fine. TLDR - UI is great, but bad performance and very buggy. Would wait for a major rewrite.