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Empathy vs Telepathy

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

Telepathy

Social & Communications

Telepathy is an open source instant messaging client for Linux that aims to be simple, accessible and integrate well with the Linux desktop. It supports many popular chat protocols including XMPP/Jabber, IRC and SIP.

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