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Axichat

Replace your email, messenger, and calendar with one app.
Axichat is an open source email and chat client with first-party push notifications (without FCM) and a conversation-focused interface.

Get your.name@axi.im at https://axi.chat/register.

For additional privacy and security, run your own server by following the self-hosting guide at https://github.com/axichat/selfhost.

Feature highlights:
- First-party push notifications
- Transform traditional email into instant messenger style
- Sync across all your devices (mobile and desktop)
- Group chats
- Avatars
- Easy forwarding and replying
- Emoji reactions
- Delivery and read receipts
- Typing indicators
- Attachments
- Pinned messages
- Automatic reconnect to stop messages dropping
- Easy drag-and-drop calendar
- Natural-language scheduling without AI
- Availability sharing that shows overlaps before you schedule
- One-tap add-to-calendar from simple text messages
- Guest mode for offline planning
- Works without Google, Firebase, and FCM

Note: Axichat is still under active development, so things may break.

Please report bugs at https://github.com/axichat/axichat/issues.
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Versions

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  • Version 0.8.9 (2017) suggested Added on Jul 16, 2026

    arm64-v8a

    This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "specialUse"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • ask to ignore battery optimizations
      Allows an app to ask for permission to ignore battery optimizations for that app.
    • Schedule precisely timed actions
      This app can schedule work to happen at a desired time in the future. This also means that the app can run when you're not actively using the device.
    • control vibration
      Allows the app to control the vibrator.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • im.axi.axichat.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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