Jami

Savoir-faire Linux Inc.

About this app

Jami, a GNU package, is software for universal and distributed peer-to-peer communication that respects the freedom and privacy of its users.

Jami is the simplest and easiest way to connect with people (and devices) with instant messaging, audio, and video calls over the Internet and LAN/WAN intranets.

Jami is a free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication platform.

Jami is open-source software that prioritizes user privacy.

Jami has a professional-looking design and is available for a wide range of platforms. Unlike the alternatives, Jami calls are directly between users, as it does not use servers to handle calls.

This gives the greatest privacy, as the distributed nature of Jami means your calls are only between participants.

One-to-one and group conversations with Jami are enhanced with instant messaging, audio and video calling, recording and sending audio and video messages, file transfers, screen sharing, and location sharing.

Jami can also function as a SIP client.

Multiple Jami extensions are available: Audio Filter, Auto Answer, Green Screen, Segmentation, Watermark, and Whisper Transcript.

Jami can be easily deployed in organizations with the JAMS (Jami Account Management Server), allowing users to connect with their corporate credentials or create local accounts. JAMS allows you to manage your own Jami community while taking advantage of Jami’s distributed network architecture.

Jami is available for GNU/Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Android TV, and web browsers, making Jami an interoperable and cross-platform communication framework.

Manage multiple SIP accounts, Jami accounts, and JAMS accounts with the Jami client installed on one or multiple devices.

Jami is free, unlimited, private, advertising‑free, compatible, fast, autonomous, and anonymous.

Learn more about:
Jami: https://jami.net/
Jami extensions: https://jami.net/extensions/
JAMS (Jami Account Management Server): https://jami.biz/
Jami documentation: https://docs.jami.net/

Follow us for more:
Mastodon: https://mstdn.io/@Jami
Videos: https://docs.jami.net/videos/

We’d love to hear from you! Join the Jami community:
Contribute: https://jami.net/contribute/
Forum: https://forum.jami.net/

Build IoT projects with Jami. Re-use the universal communications technology of Jami with its portable library on your system of choice.

Jami for Android TV is tested on NVIDIA SHIELD TV with Logitech cameras.

Jami is published under the GPL license, version 3 or higher.
Copyright © Savoir-faire Linux Inc.

Ratings and reviews

I had to leave a review because this app has gone downhill. It defeats the purpose of a messaging app. You want to message someone in real-time without having to pay texting or data, especially if they live overseas. I have undelivered messages 90% of the time. Support. There's no support unless you're a GITLab developer. They don't respond to emails and their support on Twitter is awful. They're one of the few companies who doesn't allow DMs on there.

This app is extremely buggy and most every video call was heavily glitch at random intervals. The app would not let notifications through when allowed in Do Not Disturb settings. Worse yet is that it refused to let me know of any calls or messages just as a naive app. All permissions were allowed, it just refused to notify me. Lastly, the video calls would frequently not be answerable or the delay after accepting a call was many seconds of delay/lag. Find a different app for communication.

*** 2026 update *** The app goes from strength to strength. the very occasional glitch but good enough to use as my daily driver for daily messaging and file transfers. I find changing the setting to connectivity mode to "Local DHT node" really helps with connectivity and making sure run in background is enabled. Also desktop apps with Windows, Mac and Linux amongst others you can pair your phone with.