Whalebird

Whalebird is a mastodon client for desktop application.

Feature

• An interface like slack
• Notify to desktop
• Streaming
• Many keyboard shortcuts
• Manage multiple accounts

Shortcuts

Install

Mac

Or you can download .dmg from release page.

So on, you can install from Homebrew:

$ brew update
$ brew install --cask whalebird

✨ Thanks to @singingwolfboy for adding it to homebrew-cask.

Linux

There are some packages in release page, for example .deb, .rpm and .AppImage. If you do not want to use the package manager, please download .tar.bz2 file and decompress it.

If you are using snap, please install from snapcraft.io.

$ sudo snap install whalebird

Or you can install from Arch User Repository.

$ yay -S whalebird

Windows

You can download .exe from release page.

Translation

If you can speak multiple languages, could you please help with translation in Crowdin?

Or if you want add new language, please create an issue. I will add it.

Development

We'd love you to contribute to Whalebird.

Minimum requirements for development

• Node.js greater than or equal version 15.0.0 (16.x is recommended)
• npm or yarn

Getting started

# clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop.git
$ cd whalebird-desktop

# Install font config
$ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig-dev

# install dependencies
$ yarn install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:9080
$ yarn run dev

License

The software is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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