Status Desktop

Status Desktop is a privacy-first, decentralised messenger built with Nim and Qt/QML. It offers end-to-end encrypted messaging, community chats, and Ethereum wallet integration — all without requiring a phone number or email.

📑 Table of Contents

• 🚀 Download & Install
  • macOS
  • Windows
  • Linux
• 🛠️ Build from Source
• 📱 Build for Mobile
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📚 Documentation

🚀 Download & Install

Get the latest release for your platform:

• Windows: Download EXE
• Linux: Download Tarball
• macOS: Download DMG

Supported Versions

Windows	Linux	macOS
Intel chip (no native Windows ARM build yet)	Continuous effort to support the lowest Ubuntu LTS version.	Intel chip
Windows 11 is used for testing	Actively tested on Ubuntu 22.04	ARM chip
	Should run on most of Linux flavours using glibc 2.31 or newer	MacOS latest version

Windows

1. Download the .exe file.
2. Run the .exe installer.
3. Launch the installed app 🎉

Linux

1. Download the .tar.gz file.
2. Extract the tarball file (replace * with the version)

   cd ~/Downloads
   tar xvf StatusIm-Desktop-*.tar.gz
   

3. Optionally, verify the Status app GPG signature.
4. Go to the directory where it extracted and double-click the AppImage file 🎉

macOS

1. Download the .dmg file.
2. Open it and drag Status.app to the Applications folder.
3. Open the Applications folder and double-click the Status icon 🎉

🛠️ Build from Source

To build Status Desktop from source, follow the instructions specific to your operating system. Detailed build instructions are available in the official documentation.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! To get started:

• Read our Contributing Guidelines.
  • Developing Status Desktop
  • Testing Status Desktop
• Check out good first issues to get involved.
• Join the #feedback-desktop channel on Status.

📚 Documentation

• User Help documentation
• Installation Guide
• Building from Source
• Architecture Docs.
• Contributing Guide
• You have an idea for a cool feature or improvement?

 

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For more information, visit our official website or explore our GitHub organization.

This project is tested with BrowserStack.