# Ferdium review (2026): is it any good? > Free desktop app that puts all your web services in one window Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Ferdium is a community-built desktop app that gathers messaging, email and other web services into a single window, with workspaces to separate work from private use. It is a fork of Franz that is free to use and can run without an account. Accounts, if wanted, sync services and workspaces across computers. - **Category:** Browsers - **Made by:** The Ferdium community - **Website:** https://ferdium.org - **Runs on:** macOS, Windows, Linux - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a phone app, as it is desktop only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Ferdium is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** The whole app is free; its site lists no paid plans or limits on services. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Every feature, with or without a Ferdium account. The site and the GitHub page list no paid plans. | Read from https://ferdium.org/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ferdium before buying. ## Key features - **Services in one place:** Add messaging and other web services side by side, including the same service more than once to sign in to several accounts. - **Workspaces:** Group services into workspaces to keep work and private use apart. - **Custom services:** A Custom Website service adds any site that is not in the built-in list, with an icon of your choosing. - **Account-free use and sync:** The app runs without an account and keeps its data locally. An account syncs services and workspaces across computers, and you can host your own Ferdium Server instead. - **Hibernation and notification privacy:** Services can hibernate to save resources, and notifications can hide their content while still alerting you. - **Built-in Todo panel:** A Todo panel can be shown alongside your other services. ## Good for - People juggling many chat and email accounts on one desktop - Users who want a Franz-style app with no paywall - Those who prefer to keep data local or on a server they run ## Worth knowing - It is a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux only; no mobile version is listed. - Releases are published through GitHub and package managers; the download page offers no installers hosted on the site itself. - Signed releases carry a personal maintainer's name as the publisher, because the project is not a legal entity, so OS warnings may appear. - Stable, beta and nightly builds cannot be installed side by side. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Ferdium puts all your web services into one desktop window, with workspaces and a built-in to-do panel, and it is free. It is a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux only. The site offers no installers of its own, and the project is not a legal entity, so OS warnings can appear. - **Value for money: A.** Free, with no paid plans or service limits listed. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Every feature is free, with or without a Ferdium account. - **Features: C.** Services in one place, workspaces, custom services and hibernation. It does that one job fully, but it is a smaller job than a full workspace suite. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you add and sign in to each service yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Desktop only: macOS, Windows and Linux. No mobile app or API is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ferdium's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among browsers - Ferdium's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 23 of the 60 other browsers we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 22 of 60) and worst on features (C, above 2). - Ferdium has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/browsers ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Ferdium is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Open source, Self-hostable ## Alternatives - [Franz](https://toolgpa.com/tools/franz): Desktop app that combines messengers, email and Signal in one window. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ferdium-vs-franz) - [Rambox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rambox): Workspace app that runs many web apps and accounts in one window. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ferdium-vs-rambox) - [Wavebox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wavebox): Desktop browser that keeps many web apps and accounts signed in. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ferdium-vs-wavebox) - [Shift](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shift): Build-your-own desktop browser for multiple inboxes, apps and Spaces. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ferdium-vs-shift) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://ferdium.org/ - https://ferdium.org/download - https://ferdium.org/faq - https://github.com/ferdium/ferdium-app Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ferdium Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).