Matrix clients

• Matrix docs: Featured clients
• Awesome Matrix: clients

Desktop apps

Fluffychat

• Website
• GitHub
• Flutter and Rust
• Multi-Account
• No Voip

pamac install fluffychat-bin

element-desktop

• Official matrix desktop client

Install:

sudo apt install -y wget apt-transport-https
sudo wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.riot.im/debian/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.riot.im/debian/ default main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/riot-im.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install element-desktop

Nheko

• GitHub
  • Last release 2025-08
• Cross-signing, e2e enc.
• No multi-account
• Voip support (1:1), but not jitsi group call support

Cinny

• Matrix website
• No multi-account
• No VoIP
• No Threads

Fractal

• Matrix website
• Gnome Gitlab
• Rust
• No Space, Voip, Threads

sudo snap install --edge fractal

Issues

• fractal segfaults on start on wayland

Android clients

• SchildiChat Next
  • Next-generation SchildiChat Matrix messenger based on Element X updated 2016

Fluffychat

• F-Droid

Element-X

• Element X Android
• Next-generation Matrix client using the Matrix Rust SDK
• F-Droid

CLI clients

• https://github.com/tulir/gomuks: most active gomuks docs
• https://github.com/8go/matrix-commander
• https://github.com/saadsolimanxyz/matrixcli: last commit 2020