ArcaneChat TUI

a lightweight ArcaneChat client for the command line

ArcaneChat TUI is a ncurses Delta Chat client developed in Python with the urwid library.

Features

• 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

Installing

With pip

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

With pipx

To install ArcaneChat TUI with pipx:

$ pipx install arcanechat-tui deltachat-rpc-server

Using

After installation the command arcanechat-tui (and arcanechat alias) should be available.

For more tips and info check the user guide