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Friends vs Franz: What are the differences?
Developers describe Friends as "Like Slack except P2P, offline friendly, and open source". Friends is like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source. We transmit data over secure channels and authenticate messages. It's made by a group of open source developers who are motivated to make a public chat platform that is easy to use but isn't centrally controlled, and where data is owned by its users. On the other hand, Franz is detailed as "A messaging platform for all". It is a free messaging application that combines chat & messaging services into one application.
Friends and Franz belong to "Group Chat & Notifications" category of the tech stack.
Friends is an open source tool with 3.05K GitHub stars and 359 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Friends's open source repository on GitHub.