Quiet
Private, peer-to-peer Slack and Discord alternative built on Tor and IPFS that needs no servers and no accounts.
Quiet is a privacy-first, peer-to-peer chat application that uses Tor onion services and IPFS to provide a Slack- or Discord-style team chat experience without any central servers, sign-ups, or phone numbers. Members join communities by sharing a single invite link.
Because traffic is routed through Tor, Quiet is resistant to surveillance, censorship, and IP-based blocking, and because content is stored on IPFS, communities can keep working even when individual peers go offline. The desktop client is built on Electron and supports channels, direct messages, file sharing, and end-to-end encrypted community membership.
Quiet is released under GPL-3.0 and is a strong fit for activists, journalists, open source projects, and small teams that want a private, decentralized alternative to mainstream team chat tools.
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Updated 6/23/2026, 8:00:49 AM
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