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Katee/quietnet

Simple chat program that communicates using inaudible sounds observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Katee/quietnet · homepage · Jupyter Notebook · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4688
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 3245
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2941 stars · 199 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Quietnet is a simple Python chat program that transmits text between machines using near-ultrasonic sound frequencies, requiring no WiFi or Bluetooth. It is explicitly a toy/demo project built on pyaudio and NumPy, last released in 2017.

Use cases

  • send text between computers using sound instead of wifi or bluetooth
  • communicate without network traffic showing up in a pcap
  • experiment with ultrasonic data transmission in python
  • demo of data-over-sound communication
  • chat between two terminals on the same machine via audio

When to choose

  • you want a minimal, hackable python demo of ultrasonic data transmission
  • you need communication that leaves no network traces and uses no radio hardware
  • you're learning how audio-based signaling works

When to avoid

  • you need a robust, production-grade data-over-sound solution (use quiet-js, minimodem, or gnuradio)
  • your speakers or microphones can't handle near-ultrasonic frequencies
  • you need fast or reliable message delivery - transmission has noticeable delays
  • you need an actively maintained project

Facets

application · maturity abandoned

audio-processing chat-interface cli developer-tools python cli cross-platform ultrasonic-communication data-over-sound toy-project pyaudio near-ultrasonic audio command-line

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Member repositories

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