GNOME, down to the details.
GTK4, libadwaita, familiar controls and an adaptive layout. A real desktop app, written in Vala, with an interface that belongs.
Say hello to native messaging
Big conversations.
Small footprint.
Your people, a little closer. A lightweight, native Delta Chat client that feels right at home on GNOME.
Linux · Windows · macOS Haiku native preview
Less overhead.More hello.
All the chat. A little less baggage.
Feels like your desktop.
Talks to your world.
Catch up with a friend. Make plans in a group. Send that sticker that says it better. Parla brings everyday instant messaging to a native desktop app.
Room for the rest of your day.
A lean native interface designed to keep RAM use low. Keep a conversation open while your computer gets on with everything else.
Memory use varies with chats, media and enabled mini-apps.
Your conversations, connected.
Chat with other Delta Chat users, across their favorite clients. Decentralized messaging over email, with end-to-end encryption handled by the Delta Chat core.
Meet the Delta Chat network ↗From a quick hello to the whole story
Say it your way.
Some things need a few words.
Others need a voice, a photo, or a very good sticker.
A sticker worth keeping.
Send stickers, save the ones you receive, and build your own local packs. Pause animations when you want a quieter chat.
Press play. Keep talking.
Listen to voice messages with playback controls that stay in reach. Optional local Whisper transcription turns downloaded voice notes into text.
Keep the thread together.
Reply, react, edit, forward and pin messages. Start a one-to-one chat or bring everyone into a group.
Adaptive layouts, from wide desktops to narrow windows.
Little details. Everyday superpowers.
Less hunting.
More getting together.
The good stuff, all together.
Browse each chat’s images, stickers, files, audio and video in a media gallery. Jump straight back to the message behind a memory.
“Where did we put that?”
Search a conversation’s history or search chats and messages from the sidebar. Find the plan, the link, or the thing you almost forgot.
Stay in your flow.
Switch chats, search and compose from the keyboard. Pick bubble, compact IRC or workspace layouts. Keep multiple profiles close by.
Ctrl + KQuick chat switcher
A little app inside your chat.
Share Webxdc mini-apps and do more together in a conversation. Experimental support is available on supported Linux, Windows and macOS builds.
AppImage builds exclude Webxdc. Mini-apps can be disabled in Settings.
Explore Webxdc support ↗More ways to join in. Keyboard navigation and screen-reader support, including Orca, NVDA, JAWS and VoiceOver. Read the accessibility guide ↗
Hello is only a few steps away
Find your people.
Start your Parla.
- 01
Make yourself at home.
Download Parla. Create a profile with a chatmail relay, use an existing email account, or link another device.
- 02
Share a hello.
Exchange an invitation link or QR code. Meet friends using Parla or another Delta Chat client.
- 03
Make it a conversation.
Start a chat, gather a group, share files and send a voice note. Pick the layout that feels like you.
A native hello, wherever you are
Come on in.
Get Parla for your desktop. Free software, yours to explore.
Linux
Made for GNOME.
At home on your Linux desktop.
Windows
Your chats, on Windows.
Download, extract, say hello.
Extract the archive and launch parla.exe.
macOS
A little Parla for your Mac.
Apple silicon and Intel builds.
Open the disk image and move Parla to Applications. See release notes for system requirements.
Haiku
A separate native client.
Built with Haiku’s Interface Kit.
Work in progress; features differ from the GTK app. Meet the native port ↓
A native adventure · work in progressA little different.
A little different.
Very Haiku.
The Haiku port takes its own path: a native C++ client using Haiku’s Interface Kit and the real Chatmail core. Native menus, system colors, notifications and a familiar place for your conversations.
A development preview, with ongoing interoperability testing and feature work. It does not yet have feature parity with Parla for GNOME.
Follow Parla for Haiku
A name made for conversation
par·la.
A small word with plenty to say.
A familiar sound across languages.
Català
noun · feminineParla: speech, or a person’s way of speaking. A fitting name for a place to express yourself.
Gran Diccionari de la llengua catalana ↗Italiano
verb · from parlareParla! means “Speak!” The same form also means “he/she speaks.” An invitation to start a conversation.
Treccani · parlare ↗Español
noun · feminineParla can mean chatter, or, colloquially, a gift for talking. Every group has someone with a little extra.
Real Academia Española · parla ↗