Whalebird is a mastodon client for desktop application.

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

Or you can download .dmg from release page.

So on, you can install from Homebrew:

$ brew update
$ brew cask install whalebird

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

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

You can download .exe from release page.

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.

We'd love you to contribute to Whalebird.

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

# 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

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

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