Franz is your messaging app / former Emperor of Austria and combines chat and messaging services into one application. Franz currently supports Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts,GroupMe, Skype and many more.
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Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
6.3.112 Jun 2026
Full right-to-left layout for Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and Urdu. Smaller unread badges in the tab bar. Fixes for lost email-draft attachments, squashed multi-paragraph emails and a Windows startup crash.
6.3.09 Jun 2026
French translation of the whole app. New About page with an optional Beta program. Link preview on hover. Dark-mode preference and email-sync fixes.
6.2.01 Jun 2026
Ghosts view in Franz Mail surfaces cooling relationships, computed on-device. Bring-your-own Google Gemini key for the Pro assistant. Cmd+K searches inside WhatsApp messages.
6.1.027 May 2026
Franz 6 ships natively on Linux as AppImage, .deb and snap on x64 and arm64, with system tray, autostart, live OS theme sync and franz:// / mailto: handlers. Mute-all-services button. Email search now reads the message body.