BigBox
by Heitor Faria
All your messaging apps in one window
About
BigBox is a lightweight, native alternative to Rambox, Franz, and Ferdi. It packs WhatsApp, Telegram, Gmail, Slack, Discord, and other web-based messaging services into a single window with isolated sessions per service, real-time unread badges, and Wayland-native rendering. Highlights: - Built on Tauri v2 + Rust + WebKitGTK — under 150 MB RAM idle - Isolated cookies and storage per service - Real-time unread notification counters - Smart preload for instant service switching - Drag-and-drop sidebar reordering - Per-service zoom (Ctrl+wheel, Ctrl++/-/0)
Permissions
Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.
- network
--share=network - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - audio
--socket=pulseaudio - notifications
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications - portal Desktop
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop - portal Notification
--talk-name=org.freedesktop.portal.Notification - keeps .local/share/io.github.podheitor.bigbox between runs
--persist=.local/share/io.github.podheitor.bigbox - access to your download folder
--filesystem=xdg-download:rw
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list
build-options:--share=network - hosted by github.com/podheitor, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.podheitor.bigbox
publisher:namespace
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.