Brosix is a secure instant messaging and collaboration tool featuring voice, video, and text chat, whiteboard, and a private team network. Interface includes tabbed chat, chat history, spell check and anti-virus support.
Messages with other Brosix users are secured and can be sent when they are offline and delivered upon return. All communication with other Brosix users is encrypted and clients are available for Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, as well as via a Web Client to use the Brosix network with most browsers.
Note that the program requires creating a login using an email address and has been limited to only three users in the free tier.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. Trolltech registry entries left behind. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Liteware |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Brosix.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Skype Portable, Digsby, Miranda IM, Pidgin Portable, Instantbird Portable |
What's new? |
See: https://www.brosix.com/blog/category/news/ https://www.brosix.com/downloads/builds/changelog.txt |
According to Brosix's portable download page, the latest stable download version is 3.7 build 141006.5331, released October 6, 2014... :-/
http://www.brosix.com/download/windows-portable/
v3.6.6 Build 140423.4896
Brosix connects to ICQ, Google Talk, MSN and Facebook networks , but cannot connect to Jabber and Yahoo. Has anyone experienced this connection problem with Jabber and Yahoo?
v3.6.1 build 140224
Really impressed by this program. The various features, especially co-browsing, whiteboard, and and are unique, easy and effective. I preferred the interface over Skype and other similar messenger tools.
v4.2 Build 190621