# Jami

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Jami and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free, decentralized chat and calling app that avoids servers for 1:1 chats; critics call it beta quality with unreliable sync.

## Why people recommend it

- Neat decentralized DHT design (2 comments): "Jami (formerly GNU Ring) is still a beta quality product with some neat DHT concepts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771791)) "still beta quality product with some neat DHT concepts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772146))

## What people warn about

- Beta quality, not ready (2 comments): "Jami (formerly GNU Ring) is still a beta quality product with some neat DHT concepts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771791)) "still beta quality product with some neat DHT concepts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772146))
- Unreliable message notifications (2 comments): "Jami was very unreliable about delivering notifications about new messages" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294790)) "never recieved messages after few hours" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297009))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Signal](https://hackerapproved.com/p/signal.md): 486 recommend
- [Bitchat](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bitchat.md): 56 recommend
- [Element](https://hackerapproved.com/p/element.md): 50 recommend
- [Briar](https://hackerapproved.com/p/briar.md): 50 recommend
- [Delta Chat](https://hackerapproved.com/p/delta-chat.md): 48 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Jami", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jami/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).