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Rocket.Chat for Mac

Web chat server.

$8.00
In English
3.7
Based on 5 user rates

Rocket.Chat overview

Rocket.Chat is a Web chat server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor full-stack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms. With Rocket.Chat, you can send group message, send 1:1 message, share files, integrate with your favorite products, and more!

Features:
  • Free Open Source software
  • Hassle-free MIT license
  • BYOS (bring your own server)
  • Multiple rooms
  • Direct Messages
  • Private groups
  • Public channels
  • Desktop and mobile notifications
  • Edit and delete sent messages
  • Mentions
  • Avatars
  • Markdown
  • Emojis
  • Transcripts / history
  • File upload / sharing
  • I18n - [internationalization with Lingohub]
  • Hubot-friendly - [Hubot integration project]
  • Media embeds
  • Link previews
  • LDAP authentication
  • REST-full APIs
  • Remote-location video monitoring
  • Native cross-platform desktop application

What's new in version 4.16.0

New workspace navigation: Tabs, Sidebar, or Titlebar:
  • Workspace switching has been reworked into three interchangeable layouts, selectable in Settings → General or via the View menu (⌘/Ctrl+Shift+S cycles through them):
  • Tabs — a horizontal browser-style tab strip with favicon, label, unread/mention badges, a keyboard-shortcut chip, drag-to-reorder, and an add-workspace button.
  • Sidebar — a narrow, icon-only vertical column with square favicon tabs and badges, keyboard navigation, and improved contrast when a workspace's favicon matches the background.
  • Titlebar — no sidebar and no tab strip, just the title bar with a compact server switcher.
  • The whole desktop chrome is now theme-aware, and the Theme selector is back in Settings. (#3424, #3394, #3419, #3413, #3403)
Unified window chrome across Windows, Linux, and macOS:
  • Menu bar on Windows and Linux is now hidden by default — press Alt to reveal it temporarily, or pin it permanently visible from Settings → General → Menu bar, the View menu, or Ctrl+Shift+M. Existing installs are migrated automatically without overriding a choice you've already made.
  • Linux now uses the same client-side window chrome as Windows: window controls embedded in the tab strip instead of relying on the desktop environment's title bar, plus softly rounded outer corners. (#3450, #3449)
  • Updates are now surfaced as a titlebar label instead of a modal dialog, with clearer feedback for manual update checks and more resilient silent background checks. (#3439, #3427)
  • Downloads get a new tab-strip indicator with a cleaner, more compact presentation. (#3443, #3441)
  • Added a Cmd+, shortcut to ope
n Preferences on macOS. (#3340)
Security hardening:
  • Follow-up fixes from pentest review, tightening several areas that previously relied on broader trust than necessary:
  • Restricted geolocation, notifications, and fullscreen permission prompts in the server view to trusted, configured server origins only. (CORE-1121, #3395)
  • Blocked main-frame navigation to non-http(s) schemes inside the server webview. (CORE-1123, #3397)
  • Tightened the Content-Security-Policy on local renderer windows. (CORE-1126, #3316)
  • Session data (cookies, localStorage, indexedDB) is now cleared automatically when a user logs out of a server through the normal web app UI, not only via the manual "Clear Cache" action. (CORE-1130, #3398)
  • Documented a risk-acceptance decision on certificate pinning for the auto-updater (CORE-1128) for future reference. (#3396)
Fixes:
  • Fixed workspace tabs intermittently getting stuck on the loading throbber after a webview boot failure — the app now recovers automatically instead of requiring a full restart. (#3436)
  • Fixed a renderer infinite re-render loop that could throw "Maximum update depth exceeded". (#3435)
  • Fixed an unread-badge update storm that could crash tab bar rendering, and corrected badge rendering/priority. (#3437, #3434)
  • Fixed the screen-share picker appearing at app launch with no user interaction on Linux Wayland (Fedora Flatpak, Ubuntu deb) — source enumeration was running before the picker was ever opened. (#3400)
  • Fixed the screen picker to show on the window that actually requested it (rather than always the main window) and to queue concurrent requests instead of dropping them. (#3399)
  • Fixed screen-picker source stability under Electron 42's macOS capture stack. (#3414)
  • Fixed workspaces with a valid uniqueId-scoped support exception incorrectly showing the "Unsupported" screen. (#3404, #3406, #3407)
  • Fixed the sidebar tooltip showing "null" for servers beyond the 9th position. (#3326)
  • Fixed the TopBar not rendering on Linux when using the Sidebar or Titlebar layouts. (#3449)
  • Fixed dependency subpath imports not being externalized correctly in the Rollup build. (#3411)
Internal:
  • Upgraded React 18.3 → 19 and Fuselage 0.78 → 0.80. (#3384, #3383)
  • Added a silent installation guide for enterprise deployments. (#3178)
  • Added test coverage across preload and module boundaries. (#3393)
  • Applied least-privilege permissions to GitHub Actions workflows. (#3410)
  • Updated translations from Lingohub. (#3447, #3392)
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Rocket.Chat for Mac

$8.00
In English
Version 4.16.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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3.7

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radiovish
radiovish
May 19, 2021
3.2.2
5.0
May 19, 2021
5.0
Version: 3.2.2
My chatting will be more interesting with this app. Thanks for the opportunity!
anonymous-moose-2913970
anonymous-moose-2913970
Dec 3, 2019
2.17.0
4.0
Dec 3, 2019
4.0
Version: 2.17.0
2.17.0 suffers from a crash on startup: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/issues/1422 I find it odd that there is no response from development.
anonymous-moose-2913970
anonymous-moose-2913970
Nov 6, 2019
2.16.1
4.0
Nov 6, 2019
4.0
Version: 2.16.1
Would love to see dark mode support for Rocket.Chat. There are some open GitHub Issues for custom themes. But it would be great if this supported a light and a dark theme by default which followed system settings on macOS.
anonymous-heron-2770866
anonymous-heron-2770866
Mar 19, 2024
3.9.14
5.0
Mar 19, 2024
5.0
Version: 3.9.14
radiovish
radiovish
May 19, 2021
3.2.2
5.0
May 19, 2021
5.0
Version: 3.2.2
anonymous-moose-2913970
Nov 6, 2019
4.0
Version: null
WetNet
WetNet
Aug 8, 2019
0.5
Aug 8, 2019
0.5
Version: null
cdiz
cdiz
Feb 14, 2019
4.0
Feb 14, 2019
4.0
Version: null