Latest version 5.8.6 Free OpenSource
BeeBEEP is the free office messenger that is indispensable in all those places where privacy and security are an essential requirement.
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...
Talks to BeeBEEP 5
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
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 us, you will be able to read it.
- Anyone can check how your messages travel
- Build it yourself, from the same code we ship
- Translations and fixes welcome from everyone
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.
- Start it, and your colleagues appear
- Your messages go from one computer to another and never leave your network
- Every colleague recognized by a key of their own
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.
- Light and dark theme
- Two panes side by side on a wide screen
- The same look on every system
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.
- Replies that quote the message they answer
- Reactions with any emoji
- Ticks for sent, delivered and read, message by message
- Forwarding to another chat
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.
- Many pieces on their way at once, not one at a time: much faster on a fast network
- Pause and resume, even after a restart or a lost connection
- Every file checked against its fingerprint when it arrives
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.
- The speed you choose stays for every message
- Faster, but the voice keeps its pitch
- A waveform shows where you are
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.
- The latest emoji, even where the system has old ones or none
- In messages and in reactions alike
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.
- More than one administrator per group
- Only administrators change the name, the picture and the members
- Groups by invitation: you join only if you accept
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.
- Reachable only from the same computer, off until you switch it on
- Optional password, read from a file
- BeeBEEP can even run with no window at all
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.
- Your key never leaves your device: it lives in your system's keyring
- Someone with a familiar name and a different key? BeeBEEP tells you
- Your chat history is encrypted on disk too
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 · Source code on SourceForge (opens in a new tab)