# Wayback (open-source chat app)

> Wayback is a free, open-source chat app for Windows, macOS and Linux. An archiving tool with an IM-style interface that prioritizes privacy and accessibility, integrated with various archival services including Internet Archive, archive.today, Ghostarchive, IPFS. It has 2,236 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0 license.

Wayback is a web archiving and playback tool that allows users to capture and preserve web content. It provides an IM-style interface for receiving and presenting archived web content, and a search and playback service for retrieving previously archived pages. Wayback is designed to be used by web archivists, researchers, and anyone who wants to preserve web content and access it in the future.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/wabarc/wayback |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 2,236 |
| License | GPL-3.0 (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | Go |
| Website | https://docs.wabarc.eu.org |
| Official | yes (published by the project behind the app) |
| Category | Chat & communication |
| Latest release | v0.21.1 (Jul 5, 2026) |
| Last commit | Jul 5, 2026 |

## Install

### Snap (Linux)

```sh
snap install wayback
```

Package page: https://snapcraft.io/wayback

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