Franz for Mac puts all your chat services in a single place

It feels like my life is constantly being invaded by new chat apps that don’t work together, so I have far too many windows open at any given time to accommodate them all. Franz, a new app by Vienna-based designer Stefan Malzner, tries to fix that by putting as many services as possible in the same Mac app. The app connects to Slack, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, HipChat, Google Hangouts and Grape, bringing a single place to deal with messages across services and desktop notifications. It’s little more than the Web interfaces used by each service wrapped in an Electron shell for use on…
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