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Empathy vs FairNote

A side-by-side look at Empathy and FairNote. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

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FairNote

FairNote

Office & Productivity

FairNote is an open-source alternative to Evernote for taking notes and organizing information. It has basic note-taking features like rich text editing, tagging, and searching notes.

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