Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client

In plain words

Kaiwa is an open-source web-based client for XMPP, the standardized chat protocol. It works with Prosody, an XMPP server, to provide messaging functionality comparable to commercial alternatives. Kaiwa is designed for users who want to deploy their own chat infrastructure and can be installed on DigitalOcean with Prosody and LDAP configuration included. The tool is browser-based and its code is available on Github.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Inspired by the best and built for XMPP, Kaiwa is a beautiful web-based client for the only standardized chat protocol. Combined with Prosody , one of the best XMPP servers out there, Kaiwa provides an unparalleled XMPP experience, on par with well-known commercial alternatives. Deploy a ready-to-use XMPP server with Kaiwa. This will create a Droplet on your own DigitalOcean account with Prosody, LDAP and Kaiwa installed and configured according to the details you provide in the form. Very! The code for this tool is available on Github and everything is done from the browser so you can be sure we don’t do anything weird. On top of that, the Docker images are pulled from the Docker…from getkaiwa.com

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