chooj; the only Matrix client for KaiOS.
Features
- Fast: chooj uses InfernoJS framework which is blazingly fast and very light. Performance is important when all what you've got is 512MB of RAM and lowend ARM processors.
- Experimental Calls: VoIP calls are very rare on KaiOS. Especially after Google Duo and WhatsApp withdrawing their support for KaiOS.
- Native look and feel: It has a look and feel parallel with. the rest of KaiOS first party ecosystem
- Quick shortcuts: chooj utilizes device's physical keys well to find your chat or quickly call someone with minimum number of keystrokes. The BananaHacker member and somewhat leader, Luxferre, taught us we can be creative and provide good shortcuts even on ABC keypad. Read more about his work here.
Downloads
If you can sideload...
Currently, you can sideload chooj by downloading from
Releases. The codeberg/BH version comes without tracking or any closed source
component.
Currently outdated:
If you can't sideload...
However, if your device doesn't support sideloading, or you haven't got the technical knowledge, you can install chooj from KaiStore. For now, chooj hasn't been published there but you can message Farooq with your phone's IMEI to include your device in the test list. The KaiStore version comes with KaiAds integrated which probably includes some tracking and is closed source as well.
Source code
chooj is under GNU GPL version 3 or at your option any later version. You can download the source code from https://codeberg.org/chooj/chooj
Donate
Donations are very welcome and can help with chooj's development and infrastructure cost. You can donate money by sending an amount to crypto addresses below:
Monero (XMR)
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
bitcoincash:qpxy55al8k3mux7j58taxt88jukmqur5ruv6tz7mkc
You can also send me KaiOS devices to help with the testing. Or run some server software for chooj by providing a VPS or server. Please contact me. Actually donating a device can be very useful if you can provide a device which is not available globally and therefore available for me to buy it.