Last week, I released Convo, a messaging app for feature phones (of the button variety). That has generated quite a bit of interest—and already racked up a hundred downloads within 24 hours!—so I decided to write a bit more about it here.
Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app! Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI. 100% free & open source. https://t.co/UZWGkUDJ6d
Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app!Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI.100% free & open source. pic.twitter.com/UZWGkUDJ6d— Hassan (@nutlope) July 22, 2025
Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026 - Francis Irving
There are a few mobile apps that I’ve wanted for a while, and that are relatively speaking just for me.
Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
ConvoKit: Conversational Analysis Toolkit
This toolkit contains tools to extract conversational features and analyze social phenomena in conversations, using a single unified interface inspired by (and compatible with) scikit-learn. Several large conversational datasets are included together with scripts exemplifying the use of the toolkit on these datasets. The latest version is 4.1.2 (released June 26, 2026); follow the project on GitHub to keep track of updates.
proto IM | AIM-inspired video chat for the open web
Free video calls and buddy lists built on the AT Protocol. Like FaceTime, but it works on every device. Works with Blacksky, Bluesky, or any atproto account.
Conduit
We're building a non-invasive thought-to-text system. Put on a headset, start typing, and the software completes your sentences from your thoughts. We're seeking participants for data collection and testing in our San Francisco office.
Clicks Communicator: the ultimate communication companion
Clicks Communicator is phone purpose-built for taking action and communicating in a noisy world with deeper context, versatile input and greater control in a compact design.
Beeper — All your chats in one app
Get the most popular messaging services, all in a single app. WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, Telegram, and more.
7SEES on Twitter / X
If you have WhatsApp, Signal, if you've ever opened a PDF on your device, if you run iOS, Android, and even an OS like Graphene, your chances of having this software on your phone is more than zero.Even Graphene pretends to be uncrackable, but clever marketing is used to cover… https://t.co/gaVzq4tAZm— 7SEES (@7SEES_) February 11, 2026
Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
Introducing Confer, an end-to-end AI assistant that just works.
🎬 Watch The Android Show | I/O Edition 2026
Introducing Chatto
I'm building an Open Source group chat application that's simple to self-host, familiar to use, and easy to customize.
Last week at Unternet: Build systems, a new look & ATmosphere
With Web Applets 0.2 out in the world (if you haven't seen it yet, check out our demo!), our attention is focused solely on getting an early copy of our client into your hands. Recently, I heard this described as "ChatGPT but with apps", or as our designer Ryan simply puts it: "it has hands".
Apps using UnifiedPush
This is a non-exhaustive list of the first few end-user applications that use UnifiedPush. Android Name Description Date Since version Docs¹ FluffyChat Matrix chat January 2021 v0.26.1 FluffyChat Wiki² Fedilab Mastodon/Fediverse March 2021 v2.39.0 Fedilab FAQ Tox Push Message App Tox chat May 2021 v1.0.3 SchildiChat Matrix chat September 2021 v1.2.0.sc42 FMD Find your device November 2021 v0.2.2 FMD docs Element Matrix chat June 2022 v1.4.26 Tusky Mastodon/Fediverse July 2022 v19.0 Neon Nextcloud July 2022 Unreleased Jami Jami March 2023 v361 Goguma IRC client March 2023 v0.5.0 Circles Social Network (matrix) June 2023 v1.0.11 Databag Messaging Service July 2023 v1.5.0 Podverse (beta) Podcast Manager July 2023 v4.13.1 Moshidon Mastodon August 2023 v2.0.3+fork.98 Träwelldroid Traewelling client September 2023 v2.0.0 Pachli Mastodon September 2023 v1.0.0 Molly Signal client October 2023 v6.35.3-1.up1 Molly Readme, MollySocket Amethyst Nostr client October 2023 v0.80.1 Ltt.rs Mail (JMAP) client December 2023 0.4.0 Mercurygram Telegram client December 2023 v10.3.2.1 Element-X Matrix chat January 2024 v0.4.2 SchildiChat Next Matrix chat January 2024 v0.4.2.sc1 Nagram Telegram client April 2024 10.9.1.1165 DAVx⁵ CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV September 2024 v4.4.2-ose Nextcloud extension for WebDAV-Push < polycule > Matrix chat September 2024 v0.0.1 Momogram Telegram client December 2024 v11.4.2-1 FOSS Warn Emergency alerts December 2024 1.0.0 alpha0 FOSS Warn Wiki Wafrn App Social Network (Fediverse + Bluesky) May 2025 v1.3.0 Forkgram Telegram client June 2025 11.9.2.0 Fennec Web Browser³ July 2025 141.0.0 IronFox Web Browser³ July 2025 140.0.4 Compete Create & join all kind of challenges July 2025 v1.0.0 Interstellar Mbin/Lemmy/PieFed September 2025 v0.10.0 Push Notifications ¹ App-specific documentation should not be needed. Compatible apps should just work after installing a UnifiedPush distributor.
