What is Minty Chat?
Minty Chat is an open-source, self-hosted team chat and online messaging platform. It allows organizations, teams, and groups to set up their own private chat servers with features like encrypted messaging, group chats, file sharing, video calling, screen sharing, and more.
As an open-source software, Minty Chat gives users full control and customizability over their chat servers. It can be installed on your own Linux servers or self-hosted on a platform like AWS or DigitalOcean. This allows you to keep your conversations, files, and data private within your own infrastructure.
Minty Chat provides a modern chat interface with capabilities like direct and group messaging, sending images/GIFs, creating chat rooms and discussion channels, threaded conversations, search, notifications, and more. It has native apps for Web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux as well.
Some key features include:
- Encrypted messaging to keep chats private
- Public and private chat rooms
- Group messaging with up to 50 people
- Direct and group video calling
- Screen sharing
- File sharing up to 2GB
- Chatbots & custom integrations
- Webhook support
- Cross-platform apps
- Custom theming options
Overall, Minty Chat is a great open-source alternative to tools like Slack, Discord, or Mattermost for teams and organizations that want greater control and privacy over their communications and collaboration.