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CLUSTER CLIENT-DESKTOP-MESSAGING · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-06-09

Team messaging client apps

This cluster consists of desktop and terminal client applications for team messaging and collaboration, including dedicated clients for Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, and private or self-hosted services. Dated entries appear singly and sporadically from August 2018 through May 2026, with no discernible trend. The traction leaders are SquadPod, google-chat-linux, and tmz, all currently showing zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2017: 1AUG 2018: 1FEB 2021: 1JUN 2021: 1JUL 2024: 1FEB 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1
OCT 2017AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 1 commercial · 6 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01rocketchat-desktop0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop application providing native access to a self-hosted team messaging and collaboration platform across operating systems.
  2. 02SquadPod0★5 dayslivePrivate team communication platform with direct chats, video calls, threaded discussions, task assignments, and guest access, prioritizing user privacy and no ads.
  3. 03google-chat-linux0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop client that provides access to Google Chat for messaging and team communication outside a web browser.
  4. 04tmz0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal client for Microsoft Teams that enables messaging and team management from the command line.
  5. 05synology-chat-client-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop client application for accessing a private team messaging and collaboration service.
  6. 06google-chat-tauri-bin0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop client that provides access to Google Chat for messaging and team communication outside a web browser.
  7. 07synochat0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop chat client that connects users to their organization's private team messaging and collaboration service.
  8. 08Mattermost Desktop0★unknownlivehand-codedcommercialDesktop messaging client that connects to self-hosted team chat servers for private group, one-to-one, and workplace communication.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.