Highlights
Channels
Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, WebChat, and more with a single Gateway.
Plugins
Official plugins add Matrix, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Twitch, Zalo, and dozens more with one install command.
Routing
Multi-agent routing with isolated sessions.
Media
Images, audio, video, documents, and image/video generation.
Apps and UI
Windows Hub, browser Control UI, macOS menu bar app, and mobile nodes.
Mobile nodes
iOS and Android nodes with pairing, voice/chat, and rich device commands.
Full list
Channels:
- A2A, Reef, Telegram, and WebChat ship with the core install; every other channel is an
official plugin installed with
apus plugins install @apus/<id>(or on demand duringapus onboard/apus channels add) - Official plugin channels: Discord, Feishu, Google Chat, iMessage, IRC, LINE, Matrix, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, QQ Bot, Raft, Signal, Slack, SMS, Synology Chat, Tlon, Twitch, Voice Call, WhatsApp, Zalo, and Zalo Personal
- External plugin channels maintained outside the Apus repo: WeChat, Yuanbao, and Zalo ClawBot
- Group chat support with mention-based activation
- DM safety with allowlists and pairing
Agent:
- Embedded agent runtime with tool streaming
- Multi-agent routing with isolated sessions per workspace or sender
- Sessions: direct chats collapse into shared
main; groups are isolated by default - Streaming and chunking for long responses
Auth and providers:
- Many model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and more) — the provider directory is the maintained list
- Subscription auth via OAuth (e.g. OpenAI Codex)
- Custom and self-hosted provider support (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, and any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible endpoint)
Media:
- Images, audio, video, and documents in and out
- Inline audio and video playback across the Control UI, iOS/macOS, Android, and the Linux companion
- Shared image generation and video generation capability surfaces
- Voice note transcription
- Text-to-speech with multiple providers
Apps and interfaces:
- WebChat and browser Control UI
- macOS menu bar companion app
- iOS node with pairing, camera, screen recording, location, and voice
- Android node with pairing, chat, voice, camera, and device commands
Tools and automation:
- Browser automation, exec, sandboxing
- Web search (Brave, DuckDuckGo, Exa, Firecrawl, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, MiniMax Search, Ollama Web Search, Perplexity, SearXNG, Tavily)
- Cron jobs and heartbeat scheduling
- Skills, plugins, and workflow pipelines (Lobster)
Related
Experimental features
Opt-in features that have not yet shipped to the default surface.
Agent runtime
Agent runtime model and how runs are dispatched.
Channels
Connect Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and more from one Gateway.
Plugins
Official and external plugins that extend Apus.