# arboliva/AirChat

Free Communications For Everyone.

Repository: https://github.com/arboliva/AirChat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/airchat
Language: Perl
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-12-09T11:29:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4515, "days_push": 1728, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1087, forks 150 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:32.239350+00:00)

## What it is
AirChat is a free communication tool that transmits messages over radio waves or audio without requiring internet or cellular infrastructure. It enables decentralized, censorship-resistant communication for communities, dissidents, and people without network access.

## Use cases
- communicate without internet infrastructure
- send messages over radio waves
- offline mesh communication during network outages
- censorship-resistant messaging for activists
- community communication in areas without connectivity
- exchange encrypted messages without cell service

## When to choose
- you need communication that works without internet or cellular networks
- you need censorship-resistant messaging
- you're coordinating in disaster areas or infrastructure-poor regions

## When to avoid
- you need modern, actively maintained software with a permissive license
- you need polished GUI or mobile apps
- you need high-bandwidth data transfer

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: networking, p2p, chat-interface, cryptography, privacy
- domain: networking, privacy, censorship-circumvention, messaging-platforms
- platform: cross-platform, cli
- tags: radio, offline-communication, mesh-networking, audio-transmission, censorship-resistance, decentralized, perl, communication, linux

## Member repositories
- arboliva/AirChat (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:32.239350+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:49:26.240198+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/arboliva/AirChat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:32.239350+00:00, sha 7fc7593c3209)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.