Team Chat
Webex on your desktop, inside Franz (formerly Cisco Spark)
Run Cisco Webex Teams messaging and meetings as a desktop app on Mac, Windows, and Linux, right beside your other chat in Franz.
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- Linux
Cisco Webex Teams, the messaging side of Webex that began life as Cisco Spark, blends persistent team spaces with the meetings Cisco is known for. If your company standardised on Webex, that is where a real share of your day happens, but it is also one heavyweight app to keep running next to everything else. Franz turns Webex Teams into a clean service tab in a single window, so your work spaces sit right alongside Gmail, WhatsApp, and the other tools you check all day.
Webex spaces and meetings in one tab
Webex Teams is built around spaces that combine ongoing chat with the calls and meetings layered on top, and that mix is exactly why it can swallow a whole window of its own. Running it as a Franz tab keeps the full Webex web experience, spaces, messages, and meeting links included, while freeing the rest of your screen for everything else. Each tab keeps its own login session, so if you belong to more than one Webex organization you can stay signed in to all of them at once, switching between them as fast as clicking a sidebar icon.
Notifications that keep up with your spaces
A meeting-heavy tool is only useful if you hear about the message before the call starts. Franz raises native desktop notifications for Webex Teams, so a direct message or a mention in one of your spaces reaches you the moment it lands. The unread badge counts what is genuinely directed at you rather than every message in a busy space, and it stays accurate across each organization you connect, so a glance at the sidebar tells you where you are actually needed.
Webex Teams on macOS, Windows, and Linux
Franz is a native desktop app for all three platforms, and Webex Teams behaves the same on each: consistent notifications, a dock or taskbar badge, and fast switching between your tabs. Teams split across operating systems all reach the same Webex organization the same way, with nothing to relearn per machine. You keep the complete Webex Teams messaging experience as a single tab in the one window where the rest of your work already lives.
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Frequently asked questions
Which platforms does Webex work on in Franz?
Franz runs Webex as a native desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux, with the same notifications, badges, and fast switching on every operating system.
Can I use multiple Webex accounts at once?
Yes. Franz lets you add Webex as many times as you need, one tab per account, all signed in at once. Each tab keeps its own session and unread badge, so you never sign out of one to check another.
Is Webex in Franz free?
Franz is free to use with Webex and every other service. A free account covers the essentials and takes minutes to set up; paid plans add extra features, but running Webex in Franz costs nothing to start.