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Empathy vs SimpleX

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

SimpleX

Office & Productivity

SimpleX is a simple and intuitive text and code editor for Windows. It has a clean interface and supports features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, and flexible find/replace.

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