[!NOTE] Beta. Agora is used every day by its author, but expect rough edges. Please report what breaks in Issues.

More than three apps in one window

Agora is not a wrapper that stacks web apps in different tabs. It talks to each service through its API, turns everything into one data model, and provides new features:

• One Home for everything. Workspace cards with new messages and mentions, and a Catch-up of what is for you since you last looked. All conversations from every workspace in one sidebar.
• Your history, searchable across every service. Every message received is kept in a local, encrypted archive (SQLCipher, key in the system's secret store): readable and searchable across all services at once, even offline. Search on the server reaches back further (depending on the service).
• Fine-tunable notifications. Three levels (Alert, Dot, Silent) set in layers: a default for direct messages and channels, per workspace, overridden again per conversation. Quiet hours hold everything back, focus mode silences everything at once, and the taskbar shows a dot in each workspace's colour.
• Organise across services. Your own groups can mix a Slack channel, a Mattermost team and a Rocket.Chat room. Favourites sync both ways where the service allows it, and bookmarks collect messages from every workspace on one page.
• Unified writing experience. Markdown toolbar and shortcuts, @mention and :emoji: completion, paste or drop images, a built-in image editor (crop, arrows, highlights, text), a preview of what others will see, and a draft kept for each conversation.
• Threads you can follow. Replies show in the conversation with what they answer; notifications open the reply in its thread; replies can also go to the conversation.
• Files and links that just work. Any attachment opens in your usual app without a web login; copy a link to any message; mark messages unread to come back to them; browse every image of a conversation in a gallery with a timeline.
• One to-do list for every workspace. Put any message on it from its hover bar, or type your own. Priority, due date with the days left, projects and notes; done items are kept.
• Light on your PC. One native shell (Rust + Tauri, WebView2) instead of one Electron app per service: about 100 MB of memory with several workspaces, no framework, no per-service browser.

Supported chat systems

Service	Sign-in	Live updates	What works
Slack	Your usual Slack login (SSO, Google, e-mail); every workspace of that session at once	RTM websocket	Messages, threads, edits, reactions, files, sidebar sections, Starred, profiles and members, server search
Mattermost	Your usual login (SSO, GitLab, password, MFA) or a personal access token	Websocket	All of the above, plus several teams, custom categories, two-way favourites, read state synced with other devices
Rocket.Chat	Login window (SSO, 2FA) or a personal access token	DDP websocket	All of the above, plus teams, discussions, two-way favourites
Demo workspace	Built in	Simulated	Fake conversations to try Agora without an account

Download

Get it from the latest release, then open Settings → Accounts and sign in.

System	File	Notes
Windows 10 / 11	Agora_…_x64-setup.exe	Installs for your user only (no administrator rights). Needs the WebView2 runtime, included in Windows 11.
macOS 11+	Agora_…_aarch64.dmg (Apple Silicon) or …_x64.dmg (Intel)	Not notarized yet: the first time, open it from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
Ubuntu 22.04+ (and similar)	Agora_…_amd64.AppImage or .deb	The AppImage runs anywhere and updates itself; the .deb installs with sudo apt install ./Agora_…_amd64.deb. The tray icon needs AppIndicator support (built into Ubuntu).

Windows is where Agora is used every day; macOS and Ubuntu builds are new: please report what does not work. Sign-ins are kept in each system's secret store: Windows Credential Manager, the macOS Keychain, or GNOME Keyring / KWallet on Linux.

Updates install themselves. Agora checks for a new version shortly after it starts and every few hours. When one is out, a small bar above your name offers Update and restart; Settings → Advanced has Check for updates. Updates are signed, and Agora accepts only installers signed with its own key. Your accounts, archive and settings are kept.

Releases are built only from version tags. To publish one, raise version in src-tauri/tauri.conf.json and the workspace Cargo.toml, commit, and push the matching tag. One workflow runs the tests, then builds, signs and publishes the installer and the latest.json that installed copies read. The release appears only if all of that succeeds; ordinary pushes run nothing.

git tag v0.2.0

git push origin v0.2.0

The signing key's private half lives outside the repository (~/.tauri/agora.key) and in the repository secret TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY; the public half is in tauri.conf.json.

Signing in

Adding a Mattermost account

Settings → Accounts → Mattermost → type the server (chat.example.org, a channel link or the login page address all work) → Sign in. A separate window shows the server's own login page, so SSO (institution / Google / GitLab / SAML), two-factor and passwords behave exactly as in the browser. When you are in, the window closes by itself. Agora keeps only the session token, in the system's secret store. The window runs in private mode, so no cookies are left behind.

When the session expires (by default after 30 days for SSO logins), the account turns grey and the sidebar shows Sign in. Fallback: Use a personal access token instead, if the server allows them.

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