Chat app recommendations

[Target]

Anyone got a chat app they can recommend?

Work has been using discord but there have been issues for some users and they're looking for an alternative

Must be locally hosted, do file sharing, and run across iOS and PC. 

[KynloStephen66515]

IRC? 

[Deozaan]

This isn't necessarily a recommendation because I haven't really used it, but it appears as though the FOSS software called Tox (like "talks") might fit your requirements:

https://tox.chat/

I think it is P2P, so it's kind of locally hosted, but definitely decentralized/distributed. And it's end-to-end encrypted, so that should alleviate any concerns about proprietary work stuff.



There's also an open-source Discord alternative called Stoat (previously called Revolt) that you can try, but again I haven't really used it other than installing it and tinkering with it for a few minutes (a few years ago):

https://stoat.chat/