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We've compiled a list of 140 free and paid alternatives to Empathy. The primary competitors include Skype, Pidgin. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Empathy and Hangouts, Tox, Adium. Also you can look at other similar options here: Travel and Location Software.


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Empathy Overview

Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.

Empathy uses Telepathy for protocol support and has a user interface based on Gossip. Empathy is the default chat client in current versions of GNOME, making it easier for other GNOME applications to integrate collaboration functionality using Telepathy.

Current features

Multi-protocol: Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), MSN, IRC, Salut, AIM, Facebook, Yahoo!, Gadu Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ. (Supported protocols depend on installed Telepathy Connection Manager components.) Supports all protocols supported by Pidgin.
File transfer for XMPP, and local networks.
Voice and video call using SIP, XMPP and Google Talk.
Some IRC support.

For detailed list of supported protocol features see here

Conversation theming (see list of supported Adium themes).
Sharing and viewing location information.
Private and group chat (with smileys and spell checking).

Conversation logging.
Automatic away and extended away presence.
Automatic reconnection using Network Manager.
Python bindings for libempathy and libempathy-gtk
Support for collaborative applications (“tubes”).

Empathy Features

tick-square Chat
tick-square Support for Multiple protocols
tick-square Integrated File Sharing
tick-square Video calling

Empathy Platforms

Linux

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Empathy Tags

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