a lightweight ArcaneChat client for the command line
ArcaneChat TUI is a ncurses Delta Chat client developed in Python with the urwid library.
- Create accounts
- Tweak account configuration (ex. set display name and status)
- Ability to send text messages :)
- Read receipts ✓✓
- Display quoted messages
- Account switcher
- Chat operations: delete, pin/unpin, mute/unmute, archive/unarchive, add/remove members, etc.
- Message operations: reply, delete, open attachment/links, see info, jump to quote
- Import/export keys and backups
- Ability to send files
- Notifications
- Support for contact verification and group invitations links
- Block/unblock contacts and see the list of blocked contacts
- See contact list
- Search messages and chats
- Open HTML messages
- View archived chats
This program depends on the deltachat-rpc-server program to be installed in your system,
if you want to try to install it using pip run:
$ pip install -U "arcanechat-tui[full]"
If you will manually install the deltachat-rpc-server program in
your PATH on your own, then run:
$ pip install -U arcanechat-tui
To install ArcaneChat TUI with pipx:
$ pipx install arcanechat-tui deltachat-rpc-server
After installation the command arcanechat-tui
(and arcanechat alias) should be available.
For more tips and info check the user guide