Dino XMPP client
Hacker ApprovedRanked 17 of 48 messaging apps by recommenders
Free XMPP chat client people find a better experience than alternatives, with broad protocol support. Limited feature set is the main caveat, including no automatic attachment compression.
Free XMPP chat client people find a better experience than alternatives, with broad protocol support. Limited feature set is the main caveat, including no automatic attachment compression.
24 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 21
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 21 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Broad XEP and modern feature support
“These two clients support all the "modern" features that whatsapp does”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “How cops can get your private online data” “due to its broad support of XEPs”
Comment from 28 Nov 2025 in “Molly: An Improved Signal App” Works well for daily use
“Dino is a better experience, for the limited feature set that it supports”
Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Discord Alternatives, Ranked” “it's been working pretty well”
Comment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Running My Own XMPP Server”
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See all 48 messaging apps, rankedWhat people said
19 of the 24 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I use Dino on my laptop, and Cheogram on my phone”
“We already got a lot better vision ML algorithm because of this (tx to suckerbergs dino and segment anything)”
“Your use of the DINO Materials will not involve or encourage others to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the underlying components”
“more recently the SAM and DINO series”
“They can however be extremely useful for curating training data.”
“Couple those with other smaller things like sam2 and dino.”
“I think the AI Dino is fine. Just don't claim it as anything but AI.”
“Self-supervised label-free training (DINO). Remember Alexandr Wang built a multibillion dollar company just around having people in third world countries label data, so this is a huge breakthrough.”
“I was never able to connect to mobile client from dino.”
“Dino did manage to at least always alert me when a call or a text came through”
“it's been working pretty well”
“Dino is a better experience, for the limited feature set that it supports”
“I enjoy irssi much more than Gajim, Dino, or Conversations.”
“it lacks QOL features like automatic compression of videos or images when sending attachments”
“In addition to Dino, you could use movim”
“DINO models have been pretty great, being trained on much cleaner and larger Dataset”
“due to its broad support of XEPs”
“Does not allow backing anything up”
“These two clients support all the "modern" features that whatsapp does”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.