Gitter on your desktop, inside Franz

Gitter is where a lot of open-source conversation happens: rooms tied to GitHub projects, language and framework communities, the channel you lurk in to catch the answer to the bug you keep hitting. It is the kind of chat you want open in the background while you work, but in a browser it ends up as one tab among the issues, pull requests, and docs you already have open, and you miss the reply you were waiting for. Franz gives Gitter a permanent home as a desktop service tab, right next to GitHub and the rest of your developer stack, so the community rooms you care about are always in your sidebar.

Gitter next to the rest of your developer stack

Most developers do not live in one tool. There is GitHub for the code, Slack or Discord for the team, an IRC channel for an upstream project, and Gitter for the community rooms around the libraries you depend on. Franz groups Gitter with the other developer tools you keep open so your whole workflow surface sits in one window. When a question in a Gitter room relates to an issue you have open on GitHub, you can move between the conversation and the code without breaking flow or losing your place among browser tabs. It keeps the context of a piece of work together instead of scattered across windows.

Community rooms with notifications you can trust

A community chat only helps if you hear about the message aimed at you. Franz surfaces native desktop notifications for Gitter, including the notification sound, so a direct mention or a reply in a room you follow reaches you even when you are heads-down in your editor or reviewing a pull request. Its own unread badge in the sidebar means an active room is visible without you remembering to go check it, and you stay signed in with your rooms and your place in each conversation intact.

Gitter on macOS, Windows, and Linux

Franz is a native desktop app for all three major platforms, and Gitter behaves the same on each: the same web app, the same login, a real dock or taskbar presence and fast switching to and from GitHub and your other services. Whether you develop on a Mac laptop, a Windows machine, or a Linux workstation, your Gitter rooms are set up identically, so the community chat you rely on travels with your workflow instead of being relearned per platform.