SchildiChat Desktop

SchildiChat Web/Desktop is a fork of Element Web/Desktop.

The most important changes of SchildiChat compared to Element are:

Customizable room list style (compact single line, intermediate and roomy with two line preview)
Option to show direct and group chats in a combined list
Improved theming options
Message bubbles
… and more!

Discussion: #web:schildi.chat
Release announcements: #web-announcements:schildi.chat

Screenshot

Where can I get it?

All downloads for Desktop (old versions, Windows packages, a Linux AppImage build and a build for macOS)
https://app.schildi.chat/ (hosted web variant)
As installable package through a Linux or MacOS package manager (see instructions below)

Official packages

Following packages are maintained by the SchildiChat team.

apt (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, ...)

sudo apt install -y curl gnupg apt-transport-https
curl -fsSL https://apt.supercable.onl/super-apt-repo.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/super-apt-repo-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/super-apt-repo-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://apt.supercable.onl/debian/ all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/super-apt-repo.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install schildichat-desktop

AUR (e.g. Arch Linux, Manjaro, ...)

SchildiChat can be installed from the AUR:

yay -S schildichat-desktop-bin # or similar

Flatpak

SchildiChat is distributed on Flathub:

flatpak install flathub chat.schildi.desktop

Community packages

Following packages are maintained by community members, and not controlled by the SchildiChat team.

Nix (e.g. NixOS, home-manager or any Linux distro)

The packages schildichat-desktop and schildichat-desktop-wayland are available in the nixos-unstable channel or the upcoming 21.11 release.

MPR (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, ...)

SchildiChat can be installed from the MPR:

tap install schildichat-desktop-bin # or similar

Homebrew (macOS)

brew install schildichat

Mageia (rpm package)

SchildiChat can be installed from a community repository. The package works only with Mageia 8.

su -c "urpmi.addmedia --distrib https://mageialinux-online.org/repository/8/$(arch)"
su -c "urpmi schildichat-desktop"

Pacstall (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, ...)

SchildiChat can be installed from a community AUR-like repository, Pacstall with package.

pacstall -I schildichat-deb