About

Communicate with Coccinella

Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.

1. Communicate with Whiteboard

   Sketch to explain your words. Collaborate on diagrams. Enter mathematical formulas like on paper. Draw together for fun. You decide how you visually communicate.

   

2. Communicate with Voice

   Handsfree communication for people who love multitasking. Discuss while working together in the whiteboard. Make a call while working on a document. It is all possible.

   

3. Communicate with Documents

   Exchange your documents using fast file transfer. Send files in real-time to your contacts.

   

4. Communicate with Multiple People

   Chat with multiple people in a virtual room. Team up in a multi-user whiteboard session.

   

5. Communicate with Presence

   See who is available for communication. See which communication channels you can use. See what your contacts are doing. See their emotions.

   

6. Communicate with Everybody

   Instant message with people on all legacy chat systems. Interact with people using interoperable instant messaging software based on the industry-standard XMPP protocol, including Google Talk, Apple iChat and Nokia Chat.

   

7. Some Other Features

   • Portable Coccinella on USB stick
   • Multi-lingual and internationalized
   • Plugin system
   • MeBeam plugin
   • Search people in dictionary
   • Avatars and emoticons
   • Themes
   • Secured connections (TLS and SASL)
   • GPLv3 license
   • QuickTime integration in whiteboard (Mac OS X and Windows)
   • Text-to-speech (Mac OS X and Windows)
   • Compression support to save bandwidth
   • Proxy support
   • Contact actions (buddy pounces)
   • Innovative auto-away features
   • Logout on laptop sleep (Mac OS X)