Hello Product Hunt 👋
Ten years in the past I introduced Franz right here as a weekend prototype. The group gave it 837 upvotes on release day and, later that yr, the Golden Kitty for Desktop App of the 12 months. That award has been on my shelf, and on my thoughts, ever since. So launching Franz 6 right here, nearly precisely a decade later, manner so much.
Franz has at all times been “that app that places all of your messengers in a single window.” Over one million downloads later, that phase hasn’t modified. However for the 10-year unlock I rebuilt it from the bottom up round 3 concepts:
One window for the whole lot. WhatsApp, Slack, Sign, Telegram, Messenger, Groups, Gmail, Outlook, and 75+ extra, every in its personal remoted container, with unified notifications and unread badges. Sign runs as a right kind local shopper, no longer a internet wrapper.
AI that in truth is helping, with out the privateness tax. “Catch me up” on a 200-message crew chat, transcribe voice notes, triage your inbox, draft replies. It runs in the community to your machine, so your conversations by no means go away your gadget. (Need extra pace? There is an EU-hosted, zero-retention possibility too.)
Privateness as a default, no longer an upsell. Integrated tracker blockading in each and every carrier, on-device processing, EU infrastructure. Made in Vienna, GDPR-native.
The emails I really like maximum are from individuals who’ve used Franz for ten years and are telling me Franz 6 is their favourite model but. Studying the ones in fact makes it all price it.
Franz is loose (3 products and services, a workspace, and the whole on-device AI) and runs on Mac, Home windows, and Linux. Ten years on, it is nonetheless in-built Vienna, and the comments from this group through the years has formed each and every model since. I would love extra of it now: what is lacking, what feels off, what you’ll need subsequent. I will be right here all day.
And just a little Tenth-birthday thank-you: 25% off all per thirty days and annual plans with code TENYEARSPH25, legitimate via July 15.
Thanks, in reality 🙏
