Ripcord is a desktop chat client for group-centric services like Slack and Discord. It provides a traditional compact desktop interface designed for power users. It's not built on top of web browser technology: it has a small resource footprint, responds quickly to input, and gets out of your way. Shareware is coming back, baby.

Ripcord is in alpha, and the shareware trial period is set to unlimited.

Join the Ripcord Discord server or the Ripcord Slack team to get help, ask questions, or give feedback.

Shareware

Ripcord is shareware. You can try it without paying, but if you use the Slack features, you'll eventually need to pay up.

Buy Ripcord License $20 USD via FastSpring Not a subscription—never expires

Includes 1 year of free version upgrades

Windows, Mac, and Linux all in a single license

Use on as many personal computers as you want

(as long as you're the only person using it)

Ripcord is developed by one person. Every license purchase goes a long way.

If you don't use Ripcord's Slack features, buying a license is optional.

The alpha/beta development preview phase does not count against the year of free upgrades that comes with a new license. If you a buy license now, the year of free upgrades is extended by the remaining length of the alpha/beta preview phase.

For enterprise or floating site licenses, send me an email. Enterprise licenses come with full source code access and high-priority feature requests. If you just need to buy a few licenses for use in an office, the FastSpring link above allows you to specify a quantity during checkout.

For help with orders and license keys (error during ordering, no license key delivered, mistaken order, lost license key, refund, etc.), or if you need some other type of support for Ripcord, you can send an email to my LLC's official support email address, support@acyclic.jp, or to my personal email address, cancel@cancel.fm.

You can redistribute and share Ripcord with other people, including through package managers, as long as you follow these shareware redistribution rules.