Whalebird

Whalebird is a mastodon client for desktop application.

Feature

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

Shortcuts

	Mac	Linux, Windows
Toot, Reply	Cmd + Enter	Ctrl + Enter
Change accounts	Cmd + 1, 2, 3...	Ctrl + 1, 2, 3...
Jump to another timeline	Cmd + k	Ctrl + k
Open new toot window	Cmd + n	Ctrl + n
Reload current timeline	Cmd + r	Ctrl + r
Select next toot	j	j
Select previous toot	k	k
Switch focus to left column	h	h
Switch focus to right column	l	l
Reply to the toot	r	r
Reblog the toot	b	b
Favourite the toot	f	f
Open details of the toot	o	o
Open account profile of the toot	p	p
Open the images	i	i
Show/hide CW and NSFW	x	x
Close current page	esc	esc
Show shortcut keys	?	?

Install

Mac

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.

Linux

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

Windows

You can download .exe from release page.

Translation

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.

Development

We'd love you to contribute to Whalebird.

Minimum requirements for development

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

Getting started

# 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

License

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

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