Skip to content

Empathy vs Hornet

A side-by-side look at Empathy and Hornet. 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.

chatmessagingvoipxmppirc
Hornet

Hornet

Social & Communications

Hornet is a free, decentralized chat app focused on privacy and security. It uses end-to-end encryption to secure chats and allows anonymous messaging without phone numbers. Hornet has a clean, intuitive interface and supports media sharing as well as messaging.

chatprivacyencryptionanonymousmessagingmedia-sharing

Related Comparisons