Chat and share files on your own network.
Open source, rewritten from scratch: a new design, chat balloons, faster file transfers, voice messages at your speed, new emoji and group administrators. Still no server, no account, no cloud.
A new generation of BeeBEEP is coming very soon: rumour has it, in December...
Everything is new
Fifteen years of requests from its users, in an application written again from the first line.
- Serverless
- New design
- Chat balloons
- Faster file transfers
- Voice messages up to 2x
- New emoji
- Group administrators
- A console for your scripts
- End-to-end encrypted
- Bluetooth
Open source
Every line of BeeBEEP 6 will be public under the GNU GPL v3, on GitHub and on SourceForge, BeeBEEP's home since 2010: you will not have to trust me, you will be able to read it.
The license, the code and how to contribute
The source code will be available soon.
Still serverless
BeeBEEP 6 finds the other BeeBEEPs on your network by itself and talks to them directly: no server to install, no account to create, no cloud in between.
A new look, from the first screen
Designed for the phone first and at home on a wide screen, with two panes side by side. Light or dark, as you like, or as your system says.
Chat balloons
Messages in balloons, as in the messengers you use every day: yours on one side, your colleagues' on the other, each with who wrote it and when.
Files, faster and sturdier
Files travel on the same connection as the messages: if you can chat, you can send files, with no second port to open in the firewall.
Voice messages, at your speed
Record a voice message in a moment, and listen to the ones you receive at normal speed, 1.5x or 2x.
New emoji, the same for everyone
A full color emoji picker, one category at a time, with your recent ones first. On Windows and Linux BeeBEEP brings its own color emoji, so whoever writes and whoever reads see the same picture.
Groups with their administrators
Every group has its administrators, even more than one: they choose its name, its picture and its members. And nobody is added to a group without saying yes: an invitation waits until you accept it.
A console for your scripts
Python, PowerShell, a shell script or an AI agent can send messages and files, manage groups and hear everything that happens, as it happens.
Private by design
Messages, groups and files are encrypted on your device and opened only on the recipient's, even when another BeeBEEP carries them.
Even without a network
Every BeeBEEP still finds the others by itself. And when there is no network at all, nearby devices reach each other over Bluetooth.
Ready for large networks
Measured on a test bench with hundreds of BeeBEEPs: as quick as ever in a small office, and it keeps going when the office becomes a company.
Background traffic on each computer, in a quiet network of 200 users
Users getting in when they all connect to the same colleague
To notice a colleague who left without a word: a laptop closed, a cable pulled
On every desk and in every pocket
One application, the same look and the same chats, for the first time on phones and tablets too.
25 languages from day one
Right to left included, with the whole interface mirrored. Translators can try their corrections in the real application.
- English
- Italiano
- Español
- Deutsch
- Français
- Português
- العربية
- Русский
- 中文
- …
What does not change
- No server to install, nothing to configure
- No registration, no account, no tracking
- Your messages never leave your network
- Open source under the GNU GPL, as it has always been
- The same developer since 2010: Marco Mastroddi (opens in a new tab)
Moving from BeeBEEP 5
BeeBEEP 6 talks to BeeBEEP 5, so your office can move one workstation at a time. At the first start it offers to bring your name, picture, contacts and groups along. Version 5, its guide and every older release stay in the archive.
BeeBEEP 6 is on its way
Open source, in your language, on your network in a minute. No account to create.
Follow the development on the news page and in the journal (opens in a new tab) · Source code on SourceForge (opens in a new tab)