Jami (software)

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GNU Jami
Original author(s)	Savoir-faire Linux Inc.
Developer(s)	Savoir-faire Linux Inc. and community contributors
Initial release	December 23, 2004; 20 years ago (December 23, 2004)
Repository	git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux
Written in	Java, Kotlin, Python, Shell, Makefile, PowerShell, roff
Operating system	Android, Android TV, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS[1]
Platform	64-bit x86-64 and ARM
Available in	Arabic, Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese[2]
Type	Voice over IP, instant messaging, videoconferencing, telephony, softphone, SIP
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Website	jami.net

Jami is a free and open-source telecommunications platform for peer-to-peer and distributed videotelephony, videoconferencing, and voice calls. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, support for calls to landline and mobile telephones (over traditional telephone networks), and other features.

Jami is free and open-source software released under the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later.^[3] Jami is developed by Savoir-faire Linux (SFL) and community contributors.

Jami is available for most desktop and mobile platforms. Internal builds of Jami for web browsers are yet to be publicly released.

In December 2004, Savoir-faire Linux launched the SFLPhone project to develop a digital telephone for businesses, entirely designed using open-source technologies. SFLPhone was a professional softphone that could manage an unlimited number of lines and calls on a daily basis. Compliant with telecommunications standards (SIP and IAX), it interconnected with the Asterisk software, a private branch exchange distributed under the free GPLv2 license or under a commercial license for GNU/Linux systems.

In November 2009, CIO magazine listed SFLphone among the top five open-source VoIP softphones to watch.^[4]

In May 2015, SFLphone was renamed to Ring.^[5] Ring integrated distributed architecture, which does not require a centralized server to establish communication.^{[citation needed]}

In November 2016, Ring was integrated into the GNU project. Ring is free and open-source software released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2018, Ring was renamed to Jami to avoid confusion with commercial products also using the English term Ring.^[6][7]

Jami is an open-source voice over IP, videotelephony, and instant messaging platform. In 2025, TechRadar listed it as one alternative to Skype following that product's discontinuation.^[3]

By default, Jami uses an OpenDHT node maintained by Savoir-faire Linux to join the network when the user connects for the first time. However, the application gives users the choice to run this through their own server.^[8] Jami software creates its own peer-to-peer network over which it can distribute data across all systems connected to it.^[9]

Jami is available on various desktop (GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows), mobile (Android and iOS), television (Android TV), and server platforms.^{[citation needed]} Jami for Web,^[10] allowing access with a web browser, has not yet been released to the public.^[11]

Jami is based on an MVC model, with a daemon (the model) and client (the view) communicating. The daemon handles all the processing, including the communication layer (SIP and IAX), audio capture and playback, and so on. The client is a graphical user interface. D-Bus can act as the controller, enabling communication between the client and the daemon.

Available features depend on both the Jami client and the platform used.^[12]

• No personal information needs to be provided when creating an account. This means that no email address or phone number is required to create an account.^[13]
• Operates on a peer-to-peer basis without a central server. Jami can be used on local networks without an Internet connection.^[6]
• End-to-end encryption used for chat, video, and voice.^[12][14]
• SIP-compatible with OpenDHT support.^[15][12][16]
• Instant messaging.^[12]
• Call recording.^[15][6]
• Audio and video calls with multi-party audio^[15] and video conferencing.^[17][12][18]
• Multiple^[15] audio codecs supported: G.711u, G.711a, GSM, Speex (8, 16, 32 kHz), Opus, and G.722 (silence detection supported with Speex).

• List of SIP software
• List of free and open-source software packages
• Comparison of instant messaging clients
• Comparison of VoIP software

• Official website