Messengers, email, and Signal in one desktop workspace, so the right reply doesn't get buried under forty Slack channels and a Monday inbox.
Used by people at leading companies worldwide
Over a million downloads and a decade on desk. Franz is built for recruiters, consultants, founders, and operators who move between client chat, team chat, inbox follow-through, and secure threads all day.
Franz is built for consultants, recruiters, founders, and operators whose day jumps between client messages, team chat, inbox handoffs, and privacy-sensitive conversations.
Cross-channel view
WhatsApp for clients, Slack for the team, email for handoffs
Keep client chat, internal chat, and your inbox in one operating view, so the next reply is obvious instead of buried.
Magic Bar
Find. Go. Do. Ask.
Find the right message, go straight to the work you need, take supported actions, or ask Franz for help. Magic Bar puts it all behind one shortcut.
Explore Magic BarFranz Mail
Priority inbox and sender intelligence for formal follow-through
Triage formal handoffs, approvals, and follow-ups with sender intelligence, priority inbox, and local search that understands your work.
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Native Signal with transcription, summaries, and action items
Run Signal natively alongside the rest of your desk, then transcribe voice notes, summarize threads, and keep sensitive conversations inside the same workflow.
Voice dictation
On-device dictation in every service you've added
Hold one key, talk, and let go. The words land in whatever you were writing in. Recognition runs on your Mac, so nothing gets sent anywhere. Needs macOS 26 or later on an Apple Silicon Mac, and it's included with Franz Pro.
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Google, Outlook, and iCloud calendars, together in one calm view.
The meeting you’re about to miss shouldn’t live in a tab you forgot to open. Franz puts every calendar right next to your messages and email, so what’s next is always one glance away. No app-switching, no surprises. It’s the last piece that turns Franz into your whole workday, in one calm window.
From workspaces and privacy to the small desktop details, Franz stays fast, flexible, and ready for the way you work.
Group services by mode, team, or priority so Franz can reorient your entire setup around what matters most in the moment.
Keep two services side by side in one tab, so comparing threads, checking context, and replying across tools feels effortless.
Run separate accounts for teams, clients, and personal life at the same time, without constant sign-ins and sign-outs.
Turn messages into tasks with a built-in manager, so follow-ups, deadlines, and next steps stay visible from the moment they appear.
Join calls and share screens directly inside Franz, so collaboration stays connected to the conversations around it.
Choose local AI, Franz Cloud, or your own API key, so speed, privacy, and cost stay in your hands.
Franz blocks trackers, kills email pixels, keeps secrets encrypted, and puts AI in your hands: local on-device, connect any model with Pro, or France-hosted zero-retention cloud when you want the speed.
Franz is built to help you work faster, not to watch you work.
Privacy Shield
Privacy Shield blocks trackers and fingerprinting across the services you use every day.
Tracking pixels, blocked
Franz Mail neutralizes invisible email pixels before they can report back.
Private means private
Private insights stay on your device, and Franz does not ever sell user data.
AI in your hands
Run AI locally, bring your own key for any supported provider, or use Franz Cloud in France with zero retention.
Encrypted secrets
Passwords, tokens, and credentials stay encrypted in your OS keychain.
Honest analytics, not surveillance
We count a handful of anonymous product events: app starts, the first service you add, when you click upgrade, when you first use AI. We catch crashes too, on our own servers in the EU. Stripped of anything that could identify you, and one switch away in Settings. No ad networks, no data brokers, no surveillance economy.
Free for light personal use. Pro if you want to bring your own model. Max if you want everything Franz can do. Lifetime if Franz is already part of your long-term desk.
You save $24 on Max, $12 on Pro.
Best for light personal use
For personal messaging, a simple starter setup, and trying Franz before your workflow gets serious.
Best for your whole working day
Every service and workspace, no limits. Plain snippets you reuse, Smart Translate, Privacy Shield and app lock, plus 1Password and dictation on supported platforms. AI runs on the model you set up: your provider or your machine. Your provider bills you for what it uses.
Save $12 vs monthly · $5/mo equivalent
Best when Franz should draft the reply
Everything in Pro, plus smart snippets that fill in the person, topic and date from the conversation, sender intelligence, and Franz Cloud AI with 5M tokens a month. No model setup. Your own model works too.
Save $24 vs monthly · $10/mo equivalent
Best for founders and owner-operators who already know Franz will stay on their desk for years: one payment, every messaging service, every workspace, every future update, no subscription ever. Runs on your own supported model, including local execution.
Lifetime runs on your own supported model, including local execution, so you pay only what your provider charges. Want Franz to host the AI for you? Add Franz Cloud AI for $4/month anytime from inside the app. It's an optional ongoing service, never a condition.
We'll email you before we charge, so no surprise renewals. Prices shown are net; country-specific VAT may apply at checkout.
Loved for a decade, and counting. People don’t just try Franz, they keep it open for years, across every machine they own. That kind of loyalty is the hardest thing to fake, and the easiest to trust.
One of the very few products on my laptop that I can say I've been using for 10 years. (How many products can you say that about?) I've used it on Mac, Windows and Linux, and it delivers the same performance across every platform.
Product HuntI've tried many other alternatives, but Franz beats all of them. I'm a happy user.
Product HuntLove this app. Been using it for years. A bit glitchy at times with Google Calendar, but overall I love how it gives me easy access to so many of my favourite apps in one place.
Product HuntI've been a Franz user for a few years already, and it's awesome to see the product keep improving. Great work, everyone.
Product HuntI've been using Franz for ~10 years, and it's been an absolute game changer. When the 6.0 update broke on my machine, I messaged the developer and got sent a personal hotfix. Looking forward to another 10 years!
I first signed up for Franz back in 2019. I recently came back and was impressed by how much it had evolved: it's grown from a messaging aggregator into a true communication hub.
One of the very few products on my laptop that I can say I've been using for 10 years. (How many products can you say that about?) I've used it on Mac, Windows and Linux, and it delivers the same performance across every platform.
Product HuntI've tried many other alternatives, but Franz beats all of them. I'm a happy user.
Product HuntLove this app. Been using it for years. A bit glitchy at times with Google Calendar, but overall I love how it gives me easy access to so many of my favourite apps in one place.
Product HuntI've been a Franz user for a few years already, and it's awesome to see the product keep improving. Great work, everyone.
Product HuntI've been using Franz for ~10 years, and it's been an absolute game changer. When the 6.0 update broke on my machine, I messaged the developer and got sent a personal hotfix. Looking forward to another 10 years!
I first signed up for Franz back in 2019. I recently came back and was impressed by how much it had evolved: it's grown from a messaging aggregator into a true communication hub.
Everything you need to know before switching to Franz.
Yes. Franz is free with up to 3 services, 1 workspace, and Basic AI that runs on your device. Free users may experience a brief loading pause once per hour. Pro removes this and unlocks unlimited services, workspaces, and full-speed AI.
Your messages stay on your device. Privacy Shield blocks trackers across all services. If you use Cloud AI, processing happens in the EU with zero data retention: nothing is stored, nothing is used for training.
Yes. All AI features are included for free: summaries, smart replies, voice transcription, the assistant, everything. Basic AI runs directly on your device, so it's fully private. Pro gives you faster, more powerful AI via Franz Cloud or your own API key.
You keep using Franz for free with up to 3 services, 1 workspace, and Basic AI. Pro features like unlimited workspaces, app lock, and Franz Cloud AI deactivate, but all your data stays on your device. Nothing gets deleted.
Pro is the complete daily workspace: unlimited services and workspaces, plain snippets, Smart Translate, Privacy Shield, plus 1Password and dictation on supported platforms. It runs on the model you configure, your provider or your machine, and your provider bills you for it. Max adds smart snippets that fill in the person, topic and date from the conversation, sender intelligence, and Franz Cloud AI with 5M tokens a month, processed in the EU with zero data retention. Your own model works on Max too.
Yes. WhatsApp runs as a webview with full functionality. Signal is built in as a native sub-app, not a web wrapper, but a proper desktop client. Both get full AI features: conversation summaries, voice message transcription, action items, group intelligence, and smart replies.
Yes. Franz is available for Mac (Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows, and you can use it on multiple computers even on the free plan. Your services, workspace, and settings sync across your desktops when you sign in.
Yes, Franz is built for work. Each licence covers one person, who can use it across their own devices, like a work laptop and a home desktop. What's not allowed is sharing a single account or login between several people. If you have multiple team members, give each person their own licence, or use Franz for Teams so one manager handles billing for everyone under a single plan.
Because if you want to run an empire, you should probably get your communication under control first. We like to think we are giving Emperor Franz Joseph a second chance. Also, Franz was my grandfather's name, which felt like a much warmer legacy to build on.
Downloaded over 1 million times. Franz brings messaging, email, and client work into one workspace.
