Trillian Blog

A lighter Trillian for Android, with X previews and steadier calls

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000

Trillian for Android is lighter and steadier, and ready for Android 17. Links, GIFs and channels get some welcome touches too: previews for posts on X, GIFs that arrive ready to play, and a line when someone new joins a channel.

Lighter, with GIFs that arrive ready

Ready before it's sent

Photos, avatars, and message bubbles all take far less memory while you chat, so the app leaves more of your phone free for everything else. GIFs you pick download before they're sent, with a progress ring on them while they wait in the message box, so they play the moment they land. A /gif search finds its GIF before anything leaves the message box, then sends it along with whatever else you've added.

Previews for posts on X

A link to a post on X (Twitter) shows up in the chat as a card with the post's picture, so you can tell what was shared before you tap it.

Your words around a link

Every word arrives

Write a few words around a link and all of them arrive: the words before and after the link's card each show in their own bubble. Link cards for YouTube, Instagram, X, and Imgur show the site's logo before its name, and a period or a closing bracket after a link stays part of your sentence.

See who just joined

A new face in the channel

When someone joins a channel while you're in it, a line in the conversation says so, so you know who's new before they've said a word.

Ready for Android 17, with steadier calls

Your mic stays on

Trillian is built for Android 17. Switch to another app in the middle of a call and your microphone stays on, and when the call ends, your volume keys, Bluetooth headset, and media go back to normal.

Urgent photos in a red frame Enterprise

Hard to miss

An urgent photo, GIF or video sits in a red frame, so it stands out in the chat as clearly as an urgent message does. An urgent image cluster shows the urgent triangle too, with its photo count in red.

A clearer chats list

Know what's waiting

Bold words in a message show bold in the chats list, and the list and your notifications say link, GIF or video when that's what came in, instead of calling everything a photo.

Smoother chats and tablets

Photos and text together

Opens when it arrives

Busy chats run more smoothly, an image cluster and the next message from the same person flow together, and if you tap a photo in a cluster that hasn't downloaded yet, a download ring shows on that photo and it opens the moment it's here.

On a tablet, the camera uses the whole screen, with its buttons on the side away from the rear lens, so your hand stays clear of the lens when you reach for them.

Copy them or print them

Setting up two-factor sign-in shows your backup codes, with Copy and Print, so you can keep them somewhere safe in case you lose your authenticator app. And if your organization requires a fingerprint to open Trillian Enterprise, any strong biometric your phone supports on Android 11 and up counts.

Smaller things

Name stays on top

When you scroll down a contact's info screen, their photo and name stay at the top, and linking a contact to your phone's address book shows their name and photo right away. While you're editing a message Pro, Enter always adds a new line instead of sending.

Among the fixes, messages you write while you're offline go out the moment you reconnect, and a message you delete before it goes out is canceled. Channels show their members' pictures the first time you open them, mention pills sit beside the words after them, and a muted chat stays quiet in the chats list. In Hungarian and Romanian, Trillian addresses you formally. We also fixed four freezes and a handful of crashes, including a rare one at sign-in right after answering the permission prompts.

Get the latest build

It's on Google Play now. Once you have it, send someone a link to a post on X and see the card.

Trillian 7.0 for Android Build 40Changelog Google Play

A new call screen, iPad keyboard shortcuts and links that keep your words

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Trillian for iPhone and iPad has a new call screen, keyboard shortcuts on iPad, links that stay in your sentence, and a line in channels when someone new joins. Voice clips record every time, and Trillian is ready for iPhone Duo too.

A new call screen

While a video call rings

Calls now use the same glass look as the rest of iOS 26 and iOS 27. On a voice call, the other person's picture sits in a ring that moves with the sound, with their name and how long you've been talking underneath. When you start a video call Pro, your camera fills the screen while it rings, then springs into its own tile when they answer.

Back to your call

On earlier iOS versions

If you leave a call to check something, getting back takes one tap from anywhere: a row above the tabs on iOS 26 and later, or a floating card on earlier versions. Switching cameras during a video call Pro is clean, with no black screen or flash of the old camera.

Your iPad, with a keyboard

Open a chat on an iPad with a keyboard attached and you can start typing right away. Page Up and Page Down move through the conversation, and Esc backs out one step at a time. In search results and other lists you pick from, the arrow keys move and Return chooses. The photo viewer pages through pictures with the left and right arrows, and Space plays or pauses a video.

Links stay in your sentence

Your words and the card, together

Send a YouTube, Instagram, Imgur, or X link with a few words around it, and the message shows your words with the link's card right where the link was. Every link card leads with the site's icon before its name, so you can tell a YouTube video from an Instagram post at a glance. Long-press a card, GIF, photo, video, or file that has a web address, and Copy URL is right there in the menu.

The GIF is found before it sends

/gif finds it first

Type /gif and a word, and Trillian finds the GIF before anything is sent, with the Send button turning into a spinner while it looks.

Say hello to new members

Someone new is here

When someone joins a channel while you're in it, a line in the conversation says they've joined, with their name in it as soon as Trillian has it. It's an easy cue to say hello.

Straight into the chat

Share a video from another messaging app to Trillian and it sends. If Trillian wasn't running when you shared, the chat opens right where you are, with the keyboard up and ready for a caption.

Voice clips that record every time

Every so often iOS restarts its audio system behind the scenes. Recording now picks right back up after a restart like that, so what you say is what gets sent, and clips sound clear even when you start one while another is playing.

Urgent, from end to end Enterprise

Urgent, at a glance

When you hold Send and choose Urgent, every photo, file, GIF, pasted picture and voice clip in that send goes out urgent too, not just the text. An urgent photo, GIF, or video sits in a red frame that carries the bubble's tail, so it reads as urgent the moment it lands.

Keep them somewhere safe

Setting up two-factor sign-in shows your ten backup codes, with Copy and Print right under them, so you can tuck them away in case you lose your authenticator app.

On Apple Watch

Everyone by name

Group chats on Apple Watch show everyone by name, including people who aren't in your contacts, with each name right above its message text. An unread urgent message Enterprise shows the red urgent mark in the chat list, as it does on your phone.

Better on iPad

Sheets that close the same way

A chat's info sheet closes with an X in the upper left, like every other sheet in the app, and the chat, contact, or Settings row you've selected stands out in a darker gray. Paste works after Trillian has been in the background, and switching between Chats and Contacts leaves a chat you closed closed.

Smaller things

Large pictures you send go out at full size. Bold text and headings in a message show in bold in the chat list too. /me lines, buzzes and slash commands stand on their own instead of joining the bubbles around them. Pictures with a transparent background keep it when you send them, and the @mention list shows everyone's avatar the first time it opens.

Among the fixes, a chat you switch away from is right where you left it when you come back, and your messages turn from delivered to read the moment they're read. Your sent messages land in the right order, a message you delete before it goes out is canceled for good, and edits Pro go out right away. Capital Ö and Ä, and { and }, type correctly on German and other keyboards. If the server is down when you sign in, Trillian says "Server temporarily unavailable" right away, and in Hungarian and Romanian, Trillian addresses you formally everywhere. Every new word in the app is translated into all 13 languages.

Get the latest build

Grab it from the App Store, then send a friend a link with a few words around it.

Trillian 7.0 for iOS Build 99Changelog App Store

Trillian is ready for iPhone Duo

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000

iPhone Duo is here, and Trillian is ready for it. Open it on its side and Trillian works like it does on an iPad, with your chats beside the conversation. Close it and Trillian keeps going on the cover screen. Fold or unfold in the middle of a chat and you're right where you left off.

Your chats beside the conversation

The whole screen, not a window in the middle

An app doesn't fill the Duo's inner screen on its own. One that hasn't been rebuilt for the Duo opens in a window in the middle, with black borders all around it. Apps rebuilt with the first iOS 27 tools fill most of the screen but stop short of the strip on the right where the status bar sits. Only apps built for iOS 27.1 use the whole screen.

Three ways an app can open

Trillian is built for the latest iOS, 27.1, so it's in that last group.

Held sideways, it works like an iPad

Turn it on its side

Turn the open Duo on its side and Trillian crossfades into the layout it uses on an iPad: your chats list runs down the left, with Chats, Contacts and Settings as labeled tabs, and the conversation sits beside it. The chat's header lines up with the top of the list, and both the header and the message box keep their full size instead of shrinking the way they do on a phone turned sideways.

Long messages keep to a comfortable reading width rather than stretching across the whole screen, and photos stay inside the conversation. New Message, Add Contact and a contact's info open as cards floating over the chat, and the long-press menu and the banner for a new message line up with the conversation too. Even the camera opens in its iPad layout.

Upright, it's the iPhone you know

Familiar, with room to spare

Turn it upright and Trillian goes back to one pane, just like on your iPhone, with the tab bar along the bottom and a lot more room for the conversation.

Half open, like a laptop

A tiny laptop

Stand the Duo half open on a desk, like a tiny laptop, and start typing. The keyboard fills the half lying flat, while your conversation and the message box stay on the half standing up, so you can read and reply without holding the phone.

Closed, on the cover screen

On the cover screen

Close the Duo and Trillian is right there on the cover screen. The buttons that sit along the top on an iPhone, Back, New Message and Add Contact, move into a column down the right edge under the status bar, so the conversation gets the rest of the screen. You can read a message and answer it without opening the phone.

The screens you don't see every day fit too. The photo viewer's close button sits in that column instead of being squeezed into a corner, a thread's backdrop runs the whole width, a contact's Info and Favorites fill the screen, and signing in, the PIN lock and two-factor setup all lay out around the column instead of running under it.

Fold or unfold mid-chat

Pick up where you were

Open the phone in the middle of a chat and the conversation is waiting on the big screen, at your newest message, with the messages spread out to fill the new width. Close it again and they re-wrap for the cover screen. If you had the photo tray open, it lays itself out again for the screen it's on, and with a keyboard attached there's no empty gap left behind under the chat.

How we got it ready

Every way you hold it

We treated the Duo as a device of its own. We went through every core screen on it, open and closed, upright and sideways: the chats list, private chats and channels, the + card, @mentions, voice clips, the long press on Send, photos and the photo viewer, Contacts, Settings, and signing in. In the last week before launch alone, 25 changes went in just for the Duo, from the iPad-style layout when it's open on its side to a PIN pad that fits the open screen.

Get the latest build

Update from the App Store, open your Duo, and pick up the conversation on the big screen.

Trillian 7.0 for iOS Build 94Changelog App Store

Voice clip transcripts, a new camera and background uploads on iPhone

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Voice clips on iPhone come with transcripts now, there's a new camera, uploads keep going in the background, and Trillian stays connected through more of what a phone goes through in a day.

Read your voice clips

Save a clip to Files

On iOS 26, the words appear under each voice clip as your phone works them out, so you can read a clip when playing it out loud isn't an option. As the clip plays, the word being spoken lights up. Tap a long transcript to open the whole thing and follow along, or tap a word to jump to that spot. You can also save a voice clip to Files from its long-press menu.

Hold Send for urgent Enterprise

Send as urgent

Everything behind +

Hold the send button to send a message as urgent, and it works for GIFs, big emoji and voice clips too. The first time you tap +, a tip points you to the new long press.

That's not the only change around the message box. The + button now opens one menu with every action in it, and that's where Business accounts find their text snippets Business. Their organization's custom emoji Business arrive this month as well.

A new camera

A second look

Pause while you record

After you take a photo, it waits on a review screen, and you can retake it if it's not quite right. Videos can be paused and resumed while you record. Once you're happy with the shot, add it to your message or send it straight away, and it gets the same send animation as your other photos.

On iPad, the camera fills the screen, and its controls stand in a column down the right side.

Uploads keep going in the background

Start sending a video, switch to another app, and it keeps uploading. Photos, voice clips, and files finish sending too, so there's no need to sit and watch the progress ring.

Picks up where it stopped

Tap to retry

If your connection drops partway through, the upload tries again by itself and carries on from where it was. An upload that can't get started shows its retry button.

Resend in low quality

And when an upload is slow, you see how long it has left and can resend it in low quality.

Staying connected

After the server restarts, Trillian connects again on its own, with no need to sign out and back in. A connection problem doesn't freeze the app, a sign-in that gets an error back from the server stops showing "Connecting...", and waking the phone gets you connected right away. Calls stay up after Trillian has been in the background for a while, and incoming calls ring even if Trillian is closed after you sign in.

Also this month

Links to X posts try to show a preview card with the post's picture. Buzz is on the info screen you open from the Contacts tab or a chat's card. Large text sizes and other accessibility settings work better throughout the app, and when you open a chat from a notification, a spinner under the last message shows the new one is on its way.

Among the fixes, a reply typed on the lock screen leaves your other chats unread, alerts don't vanish on their own, and channel alerts show the channel's name and the sender's photo. Photos shared in from other apps stay put after they upload, sharing one photo to two chats works for both, and reactions Pro show who reacted by the name in your address book. When someone deletes a message, its notification goes away with it, and media cleanup on Business accounts Business leaves photos and videos that are still waiting to send alone.

Get the latest build

Update, and if you're on iOS 26, your next voice clip comes with its words attached.

Trillian 7.0 for iOS Build 76Changelog App Store

Link previews that wait for a click, by customer request

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000

A customer pointed out a problem with GIFs: in an in-person meeting, any GIF someone sends you plays for everyone around you. So in this update to Trillian for Windows, link previews and GIFs can wait until you click them.

Link previews, when you want them

Previews wait for a click

Three ways to show previews

What used to be a checkbox for link previews is now a list with three choices, in Settings under Chat Windows: Show previews automatically, Click to show previews, and Show links only. With Click to show previews, a picture, GIF, or YouTube video from another site waits in the chat as a faint, labeled box, and Trillian loads nothing from that site until you click it.

After you've looked, Trillian hides it again once you scroll it out of view, or close and reopen the chat. The next time a GIF arrives mid-meeting, the people around you see a box where the GIF would be.

A few other changes

Initials without the title

Photos and files people send through Trillian now show up even with link previews off. Tenor links show as plain links, and the GIF browser uses KLIPY. Contacts without a picture get initials that skip titles, so Dr. Priya Shah gets PS.

Of the 11 fixes, several started as customer reports. Custom emoji Business at the start of a message are now the same size as the rest of the line, and typing a slash command no longer sends your organization's disclaimer Business. The Trillian bot Business no longer shows up under your teams in the contact list. Search no longer hides contacts behind channels with similar names, and in the dark theme, the scroll-down arrow and the links in dialog boxes are no longer too dark to see.

Update Trillian for Windows

It's ready whenever you are.

Trillian 6.6 for Windows Build 19Changelog Download

Reactions and two-factor setup on Linux

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Trillian for Linux gets emoji reactions in this update, along with two-factor setup inside the app, file transfers you can pause partway, and 64 fixes.

React with an emoji Pro

React with an emoji

A banner for reactions

Hover over a message and click the reaction button that appears, or open the message's menu instead. Reactions show on the message itself, and in channels each one has a count next to it. When someone else reacts, Trillian plays a sound, and you can turn on a banner as well if a sound isn't enough.

Two-factor setup, right in the app Enterprise

Scan the QR code

Ten scratch codes

You can set up two-factor sign-in from Trillian itself now. Scan the QR code with your authenticator app, and you get ten scratch codes for the times your authenticator isn't within reach. Copy them, print them, or save them as a PDF.

A few sign-in snags are gone as well. If your organization requires two-factor sign-in, you're no longer locked out before you've had the chance to set it up. A wrong code lets you try again instead of signing you out, and you can cancel the code prompt.

Transfers you can pause

Progress as it transfers

Pause and resume

Images, videos, and files show a progress ring while they upload or download, along with how much has made it across so far. Click a transfer to pause it, resume it, or retry it. If one gets interrupted, it picks up from where it stopped. And if you change your mind partway, you can delete the message while its upload is running, paused, or failed.

Videos show as videos

Videos you send show up in the chat as videos, with a preview frame, instead of as a file. You can also copy files in your file manager and paste them into a chat to send them.

The smaller stuff

Search for emoji

Find people as you type

When you've scrolled a long way up, a button takes you back to the newest message. You can search emoji from the top of the emoji browser. The Send Message window, opened from the + beside Private Chats, shows directory results Business as you type, and matches job title and department as well as names. The dialogs for starting a private chat and creating a private channel list and sort people and channels the same way on Linux, Windows, and Mac.

Of the 64 fixes, these are the ones you're most likely to have noticed. Adding people to a channel works, and so does muting or unmuting one. You can create public channels Business and see the full list of them. The emoji browser has about 1,000 more person emoji. Files you send appear in the chat instead of going missing, organization accounts Business get their 2 GB file limit instead of 25 MB, and images no longer download again every time you look at them.

Get the latest build

Install it when you're ready, and tell us how reactions go over in your channels.

Trillian 6.6 for Linux Build 6Changelog Download

A customer asked for PDF history exports, so we built them

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000

That new build is live in Trillian for Web. Chat history can now be exported as PDF, pictures included if you want them, and the same build makes generated passwords easier to read and trims about 9 MB off what the app loads when it opens.

Chat history as a PDF Business

History as a PDF

You could already export one day or the whole archive as text. Now administrators can export a user's or a channel's history as PDFs, one per month, with a bookmark for every day so you can jump to the one you need.

Pick your picture size

Every language and emoji

Pictures go in at small or large size, or you can leave them out, and the zip has the original pictures next to each conversation's PDFs. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Hebrew text gets the right fonts, and emoji look the way they do in Trillian.

A few other changes

Easier-to-read passwords

Passwords an administrator Business generates are easier to read now: three groups of six letters and numbers. Generated passwords, two-factor secrets, and backup codes Enterprise are stronger too. Languages download only when you pick one, which is where the 9 MB went. And with link previews set to Click to show, a preview you've opened closes again once you scroll past it.

Some fixes you might notice: switching chats is faster, and the GIF browser no longer plays sound. In History, reactions Pro show who added them, and check mark, heart, and star reactions no longer show up blank. A custom emoji Business that fails to load shows its :name: instead of a broken picture.

Try it in your browser

The next time you open Trillian on the web, you'll be on the latest build.

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Voice clip transcripts and a new + card on Android

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000

On Android, you can read a voice clip now instead of playing it. This update also gathers your tools onto a new card behind the + button.

Transcripts, made on your phone

On Android 14 and up, your phone does the transcribing by itself, and nothing leaves the phone to do it. With Show voice transcripts turned on in Settings, the text sits right under the waveform, and a tap opens a long one full screen.

Your tools behind the +

Everything behind the +

Your team's snippets

Tap + and your tools open on a card. When you're done, drag it away to close it. On Business accounts, a Snippets row on the card opens up a list of your organization's text snippets Business.

Hold Send for Urgent

Urgent has moved to a long press on Send Enterprise. It shows up there once your admin has turned urgent messages on.

More in this build

Pause and zoom presets

In the camera, you can now pause and resume a video, zoom with presets, and send a photo straight away or add it to your message. Videos get the same send animation as photos.

Resend in Low Quality

When a photo upload is slow, its progress ring turns amber and a Resend in Low Quality button appears under it.

Your organization's custom emoji Business show up in the app, and the first launch after an update shows what the release added. The app also starts sooner, photos take less memory, and chats with lots of reactions Pro scroll more smoothly.

The chat's scrollbar is back, and short videos recorded in the camera are no longer thrown away. Voice clips keep their last moment when you let go mid-word, and the waveform stays in step with the sound. Opening a RAW (DNG) photo full screen no longer freezes the app, and cropping an avatar no longer crashes.

Get it on Google Play

The latest build is there now. Send a voice clip and read along.

Trillian 7.0 for Android Build 33Changelog Google Play

Trillian 7.0 for Web brings reactions and themes

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Trillian 7.0 for Web is now available, and it's a big one. The web app speaks your language, it has a dark theme, and a lot more of what people send you opens right inside your chats. We squashed a good number of bugs along the way, too.

Trillian, in your language

Trillian in your language

Choose before you sign in

Pick one of 39 languages in Settings and most of the app switches over right away. You can even choose it on the sign-in screen before you've signed in, along with light or dark.

Emoji reactions Pro

React with emoji

See who reacted

Sometimes a thumbs up says it all. React to any message from a quick picker instead of typing a reply, and see a list of everyone who reacted.

Dark mode is here Pro

Night owls, this one's for you. Choose light, dark, or follow your system setting, then pick an accent color to go with it.

Link previews

YouTube and X previews

Picture links show pictures

YouTube links now show the video's title, X posts show who posted them and when, and links to pictures on other sites show the picture itself.

Previews when you click

Hide any preview

Prefer a calmer chat? Set previews to show only when you click, or turn them off, and hide any single preview from its right-click menu.

Code and spreadsheets, right in your chat

CSV and code previews

Long pastes become files

Someone sent you a CSV? Trillian opens code, CSV, and text files in its own viewer, with code highlighted and CSVs laid out as a table. It works the other way too: paste a big block of text and it goes out as a text file, instead of a message that takes over everyone's screen.

A better image viewer

Zoom in or see the set

Download, copy or open

Zoom in and pan around any picture, or open a grid of the other photos sent with it. From the viewer you can download a picture, copy it, or open it in a new tab. Pictures load a quick preview first and sharpen as the full image arrives, so there's something to look at right away.

Send a whole batch of files

Up to ten files

Pictures as a cluster

Sending files got easier as well. Attach up to ten at once, put them in order, and drop any one before you send. Several pictures sent together arrive as an image cluster you can flick through.

Settings that follow you

Your settings now follow you from one computer to the next, and they're sorted into Appearance, Contact List, Chat Windows, Notifications, and History. Private chats and channels get their own notification settings, and urgent messages Enterprise always get through, whatever those settings say.

A few small touches

Jump to any day

History's scrollbar now shows dates as you drag, so you can jump straight to any day. The message box grows as you type, and you can see who you've blocked and unblock them. Slash commands autocomplete as you type, including your organization's bots Business, text snippets Business expand when you type them, and your organization's custom emoji Business work in chats.

For administrators Business

Test a rule first

Data loss prevention rules can now redact or delete a message, and you can test a rule live on a sample message before you turn it on.

Your own emoji

Bots get a tag

Custom emoji can be uploaded, and a picture with transparent borders gets a Trim button. Bots get a Bot tag in the admin area's member lists and a BOT label on their messages.

Two-factor policies Enterprise can require an authentication app, and audit logs Enterprise show which emoji a reaction used.

Try Trillian 7.0 for Web

There's nothing to download: sign in on the web and you're already on 7.0. We hope you enjoy it!

Pick your own quick reactions on iPhone and Android

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

The emoji on your quick reaction bar are now yours to choose, on iPhone and Android alike. It reached both phones in updates over the last few days, each with a few extras.

Your reactions, your picks Pro

The gear and recents

Pick your quick reactions

Tap the gear to choose which emoji sit on your reaction bar. On iPhone, it's in the reaction picker, next to a new row of the emoji you've used lately.

The gear on Android

On Android, tap the add-a-reaction button at the end of the bar, and the gear is beside Search emoji. Picking an emoji there closes the sheet and adds it to your bar.

On iPhone, taking a reaction back now plays a pop.

Elsewhere in these updates

Android picked up a few smaller changes. Long-press a message that's partly hidden and it slides fully into view, sending a photo while you're scrolled up takes you to the bottom of the chat, and videos show up in the chat sooner after you send them.

On iPhone, the update fixes two things: a picture dropped mid-sentence no longer eats the words after it, and small HEIC photos from the camera roll go out as JPEG again.

Get the update

Both updates are out now, so go decide which emoji earn a spot on your bar.

Trillian 7.0 for iOS Build 59Changelog App Store

Trillian 7.0 for Android Build 31Changelog Google Play

Choose when your status message clears on Windows

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Both headline features in this Trillian for Windows update started as customer requests. A temporary status can now clear at the hour you choose, and pictures can sit inside your message text again. You can also attach several pictures at once and send a batch of files as a single zip, and there are 35 fixes.

Pick when your status clears

When you set a status to clear tomorrow or next week, Trillian clears it in the morning, and until now that always meant 8 AM. In Settings, under Status, the new Default time to clear a temporary status setting lets you pick the hour. If your day starts at 9, your "back tomorrow" can stay up until you're actually back.

Pictures back in your text

In the text or attached

The May 26 update gave the pictures you attach their own area apart from your text, which kept them at the end of your message. Now you can have it either way: put a picture wherever you're typing, with words before, between, and after it, or keep your pictures together as attachments. A switch on the attachments flips between the two, and the same choice is in Settings under Chat Windows.

Drop several pictures

Many files, one zip

Drop or insert several pictures at once and they all attach to your message. Send several files or folders together and they go out as one zip file.

Also new

View day as text, which opens a day's messages as a text file, now works when your chat history is kept in the cloud Pro. Adding or removing a reaction Pro plays a sound, and one setting covers both. The English autocorrect rules are updated as well.

The 35 fixes include a better fallback for files: when a file you drag into a private chat can't be uploaded, it goes straight to the other person instead of failing. Some messages that couldn't be deleted now can be, and undo in the message box brings your text back. Autocorrect works in languages other than English, and regional languages such as British English get spell checked.

Get the update

The latest build is ready for Windows, so go pick your hour.

Trillian 6.6 for Windows Build 18Changelog Download

Share straight into a chat, and Trillian calls in your iPhone's Recents

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Sharing into a Trillian chat is easier on iPhone, and your Trillian calls now show up in the phone's own Recents list.

Trillian in the share sheet

Ready for a caption

Your Trillian conversations can now show up in the row of people in the iPhone's share sheet. Share to one of them and Trillian opens that chat with whatever you shared waiting, ready for a caption.

Share the whole cluster

Going the other way, Share All sends a whole image cluster out to another app.

See the GIF before you send

See the GIF first

A GIF you pick waits in the compose bar like a photo does, already playing, so you can see what's about to go out.

Call back from Recents

Trillian calls in Recents

Call back from the details

Your Trillian calls now show up in the iPhone's own Recents list, right alongside your other calls. Call someone back from there and the call goes through Trillian, and the phone's call-detail card can dial through Trillian too.

Small touches

A closer look first

Long-press a photo in the picker tray to see it full width, and videos play there with sound. When you send, your photos travel from the compose bar to their place in the chat. In the photo viewer, a double-tap zooms in one step and another double-tap zooms back out, while pinch still goes further. Forward All skips any photos in a cluster that didn't send and forwards the rest. Catch a typo in the first 30 seconds and your edit Pro won't leave an (Edited) label behind, and long-press a notification to find Mute in its menu.

Calls got three fixes as well. The call buttons are ready as soon as you sign in for the first time, a call you already answered or declined on another device stays quiet on this one, and the call buttons in a chat and on that contact's info screen always agree on whether you can call.

On the App Store now

Next time you want to send something from another app, look for Trillian in the share sheet.

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New accent colors and @mention pills on Android

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Rose, Navy, and Graphite join the accent colors in this update to Trillian for Android. @mentions now show as pills with the person's name and photo, and a few of the fixes keep messages, reactions, and edits in order when they arrive out of sequence.

Three new colors

Pick Rose, Navy, or Graphite from an accent picker that now lists every color in rainbow order. Each swatch is split in two, so you can see its light and dark versions before you choose. Teal fans, don't panic: it's still there, now called Mint.

@mentions you can tap

An @mention shows the person's name and photo in a pill. Tap it and you get the same member card you'd see from a channel's member list, which is also new in this build.

And a few smaller changes

GIFs wait beside photos

Photos you send now animate into the chat, and a GIF you pick waits next to your photos as a small, playing thumbnail until you send. Image clusters have Forward All and Share All. Edits Pro made within 30 seconds of sending skip the (Edited) label.

Notifications keep up with changes, too. If someone edits Pro a message you haven't read, its notification updates, and if they delete it, the notification goes away. Contacts linked to your phone book use its name and photo everywhere in the app, and sign-in errors are clearer, in a popup that includes the new "too many devices" message.

A few of the 20 fixes deal with things that arrived out of order. Messages no longer swap places when one comes in while you're sending, and a reaction Pro, an edit Pro, or a delete that shows up before its message now waits for it instead of getting lost.

Get the latest build

It's on Google Play, and Graphite is waiting in the color picker.

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Better buzzing on iPhone and Android

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

A buzz on your phone now gets the classic Trillian treatment: the screen shakes. It arrived on iPhone and Android today, and on both phones a contact's info screen now puts calling and buzzing a tap away.

Give it a shake

Android shakes too

Send or get a buzz on iPhone and the whole screen rattles, much like a Trillian window does on your desktop. On Android the chat window shakes and plays a sound.

Keep your phone still

If you'd rather your phone stayed still, each app has a switch in Settings to turn the shaking off.

Call, Video, and Buzz, one tap away

Open a contact's info screen and Call, Video Pro, and Buzz are right there. On iPhone the whole screen was redesigned with the contact's details at the top, and channel member cards and metacontacts match it.

More on iPhone

Mentions as pills

@mentions show as pills with the person's first name and photo. Tap one and that person's card opens, so you can message or buzz them right from there, even if they aren't one of your contacts. Chat previews say "hey @Lucy" instead of showing a raw address.

Fourteen accent colors

You can pick from fourteen accent colors, each previewed in light and dark, and message bubbles blur as they scroll under the chat header. Photos and videos transfer up to twenty at a time, so a screenful of thumbnails shows up in moments, and whatever you've downloaded in the last two weeks stays on the phone.

More on Android

A menu on every photo

Photo grids got a long-press menu on every tile to save, share, open, or delete the photo, and you can react to it Pro from the same menu. Photos in the grid keep their natural shapes. Taking back a reaction Pro has a sound of its own: the pop, played backwards. And downloaded photos and videos are now kept for two weeks, instead of until they hit a size limit.

Try it on your phone

Grab the update, then buzz someone and watch your screen shake.

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Trillian 7.0 for Android Build 28Changelog Google Play

Trillian 7.0 for iOS, rebuilt for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Three months after we rewrote the Android app, it's the iPhone's turn. Trillian 7.0 for iOS is rebuilt for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, with the glass look of iOS 26, photos that arrive together as one image cluster, and a full Trillian app on your wrist again. Come take the tour.

Made for iOS 26, ready for iOS 27

Glass info screens

Dark mode throughout

The whole app takes on the glass look of iOS 26, with dark mode throughout. It looks right at home on iOS 27, too, which arrives this fall. Info screens are built around a large avatar on a floating glass card.

The iPad changed the most. It has a layout of its own now, and on iPadOS 26 you get a floating glass sidebar, with your conversations in their own pane.

Image clusters

Send several photos together and they arrive as one image cluster, a stack of cards you can swipe. Before you send, photos and videos wait in the compose bar as small previews.

Tap the count to see them all

The new full-screen viewer

Tap the count badge to see them all in a grid, and tap a photo in the chat to open the rebuilt full-screen viewer. Swipe down when you're done looking.

Apple Watch, rebuilt

Apple Watch has a full Trillian app again, rebuilt from scratch. It handles your chats, photos, videos, voice clips, and reactions Pro.

New in your conversations

Edit what you've sent

React with emoji

You can now edit messages you've sent Pro, and long-press any message to react with emoji Pro, in channels too.

Bold, italics and code

Messages can carry bold, italics, and code written in Markdown, and there's a setting to turn the formatting off.

Link previews

Voice clips

Links to YouTube, Instagram, and other sites expand into preview cards. Voice clips have a new design, with a live waveform you can scrub through.

Read by everyone

In channels, a triple checkmark means everyone has read your message.

The chat list, redesigned

Rows in the chat list now show two-line previews, round unread badges, and read receipts. Flag a conversation to mark it unread, and it sorts above the ones you've read. Swipe a row to favorite, flag, mute, archive, or delete it.

Drafts wait for you

Jump to what's new

Anything you typed but didn't send waits for you as a draft. Inside a chat, scroll up and a jump-to-bottom button appears, with your unread count on it.

A new way in

Signing in starts on a new welcome screen, with seasonal scenes that change through the year.

Your PIN at sign-in

Codes that fill themselves in

You set up a PIN Enterprise during sign-in and enter it on Trillian's own keypad, and two-factor works with any authenticator app Enterprise, with codes that autofill.

A few more things

Photos you send have their metadata removed before they leave your phone, location and camera details included, and everything Trillian stores on the device is in an encrypted database.

It's faster, too. The largest accounts now sign in within seconds, tapping a bubble responds right away, big photos no longer hog memory, and scrolling through history holds steady while older messages load.

Emoji are updated to JoyPixels 11, with a new player for animated emoji, and GIF search and trending come from KLIPY, since Google shut Tenor off for other apps. Contacts are always grouped, and you can sort them by first name, last name, or status. Channel operators can kick members from the info screen, sharing from another app goes straight to the conversation picker, and the translations were redone and checked in all 13 languages.

As for fixes, we went through the whole app for anything that could crash it or leak memory, and fixed a long list of them. Answering a call from a notification when Trillian wasn't running now connects reliably, and redialing a Trillian call from the iPhone's Recents list works again.

Get Trillian 7.0 for iOS

Update from the App Store, and say hello to the new Watch app while you're at it.

Trillian 7.0 for iOS Build 24Changelog App Store

Edit and delete messages on Linux

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Trillian 6.6 for Linux lets you edit a message after you've sent it, or delete it. Silent sending and the JoyPixels 11 emoji come along too, plus a round of fixes for Wayland.

Edit a message after you send it Pro

For the times you type 3:00 and mean 2:00, you can now fix the message itself rather than sending a correction after it.

Or take it back

Some messages are better unsent. Pick Delete and it's gone from the conversation.

What else is new

Send it silently

Hover for channel details

You can send a message silently, too, so it reaches the other person without a sound or a notification. Hover over a channel to see its display name, real name, topic, team, and member count, or over a team for its member and channel counts and its purpose. Emoji are updated to JoyPixels 11, and link colors adapt to each message bubble, so links stay readable on every accent color.

On Wayland, opening links or menus no longer crashes Trillian, and auto-away works across desktop environments. The tray icon appears reliably on KDE and modern GNOME, Ubuntu included. Trillian opens again without trouble after you've quit it, and the chat view stays steady instead of going blank or flickering when you resize the window. Sending a message scrolls to it even when you're far back in history, and you can pick @mention and slash-command suggestions with the mouse or the keyboard.

Update Trillian for Linux

If you run Trillian on Wayland, you'll want this one.

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Audit logs in Trillian Server

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Trillian Server now shows audit logs, the record of who changed what on your server. This Trillian Server 6.6 update also adds four policies for the desktop apps, and reworks how you browse chat history and users.

See who did what, and when Enterprise

Who did what, and when

On each user's page

You'll find them in the main window, and on each user's and channel's own page, so you can check the record right where you're working.

Four new desktop policies Business

Four new policies

Set it for a team

Four new policies set how your users' desktop apps behave: their notifications, their sounds, the badge color, and whether new chat windows open minimized. You can also set a policy for everyone in a group or team from its right-click menu, and the policy list is in alphabetical order now.

Chat history, sorted

Chat history is split into private conversations and channels, each sorted by newest activity. Messages show their emoji reactions, and media and files appear right in the conversation. Search matches display names and IM addresses as well.

Users at a glance

Who it is, up top

In user management, inactive users are grouped together, and the list shows each user's status and message count and highlights what you searched for. A user's detail screen has their name, avatar, and status at the top, and you can select several users at once in more places.

The rest of this update

The media and file browser groups items by month and retries thumbnails that fail to load, and media previews zoom and pan, with a checkerboard behind transparent images. Emoji are updated to JoyPixels 11, and they show as JoyPixels in messages and in user, team, channel, and member lists. The emoji browser has new headers and a preview when you hover.

Type-to-search works in more admin lists. A built-in log viewer shows errors on startup, and connecting to something that isn't a Trillian server shows an error with the address and what came back.

Two certificate problems are fixed as well: a key size warning no longer appears for elliptic-curve certificates, and certificate validation no longer fails when the configuration data directory has been moved from its default.

Upgrading your server

Install the update whenever it suits your schedule.

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Windows moves to JoyPixels 11 emoji

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Emoji on Windows move to JoyPixels 11 in this Trillian 6.6 update. It's a small one otherwise, with four fixes for calls, spelling suggestions, and the docked contact list.

JoyPixels 11 emoji

Emoji in Trillian for Windows now come from JoyPixels 11, the newest version of the set, and every emoji gets new art.

Eight new emoji

Eight are new to Trillian, from Emoji 17.0: Distorted Face, Ballet Dancer, Orca, Hairy Creature, Landslide, Fight Cloud, Trombone, and Treasure Chest. Ballet Dancer comes in five skin tones, and a few emoji you already know, like people holding hands and couples, pick up skin tones too. Trillian Server picked up the same set a day later.

Four fixes

Call audio no longer degrades the longer a call goes on, and a microphone warning no longer pops up during a call when it shouldn't. Choosing a spelling suggestion from the right-click menu now replaces the word. Docking the contact list to a screen edge got several fixes, including undocking it back to its old size.

Get the new emoji

Update, and the eight new ones are waiting in the emoji browser.

Trillian turns 26

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Twenty-six years ago today, two of us shipped the first version of Trillian out of Brookfield, Connecticut. The messengers we used every day refused to talk to each other, and we were stubborn enough to think we could fix that.

That first version signed you in to all your buddy lists at once: one window instead of five. Since then the buddy list became channels and teams, and one Windows app became six.

Then and now

What's changed

	2000	2026
Where Trillian ran	Windows	Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the web
Where your friends were	AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger	Right here, in chats, channels, and teams
How you got online	Dial-up, mostly	Wherever you are
Downloads	Zero	More than 50 million

Along the way Trillian picked up video calls, reactions, and read receipts, and hospitals now use it for secure messaging.

Still here

When Trillian started, it lived alongside the big messengers of the day. Almost all of them have since signed off for good:

AIM, 1997 to 2017
MSN Messenger, later Windows Live Messenger, 1999 to 2013
Yahoo Messenger, 1998 to 2018
ICQ, 1996 to 2024

We're still here, and we still answer our own support tickets.

The last year

In the past twelve months we shipped Trillian 6.6, with reactions and video calls, and rewrote the Android app from the ground up. Linux got 6.6 as well, with channels and read receipts that go both ways.

Thank you

Some of you have used Trillian since dial-up. You're the reason we made it to 26, and all of us at Cerulean Studios are grateful. Here's to the next 26! 🎂

Google killed the Tenor API, so our GIFs moved to KLIPY

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Today, June 30, Google switched off the Tenor API, which apps used to search and share Tenor's GIFs. New sign-ups had stopped in January. Tenor lives on inside Google's own products; every other app needs a new source, and the API is already on Killed by Google.

Trillian had used Tenor for GIF search since 2020. Our GIFs come from KLIPY now.

When each app switched (updated August 5)

Windows: the May 26 update shows the KLIPY GIFs other people send you, and since June 26 the GIFs you pick come from KLIPY too.
Mac: the June 29 update switched GIFs to KLIPY.
Linux: since the June 4 update, GIFs play right in the chat with the logo of the service they came from, Tenor or KLIPY.
Android: 7.0 shows the KLIPY GIFs people send you, and starting with the July 27 update you send them too.
Web: the GIFs you send have come from KLIPY since July 15.
iOS: GIF search and trending come from KLIPY since 7.0 on August 5.

Nothing changes in how you pick a GIF. If search comes up empty, that copy of Trillian is still asking Tenor; update it and your GIFs come back.

Trillian Blog

A lighter Trillian for Android, with X previews and steadier calls

Lighter, with GIFs that arrive ready

Previews for posts on X

Your words around a link

See who just joined

Ready for Android 17, with steadier calls

Urgent photos in a red frame Enterprise

A clearer chats list

Smoother chats and tablets

Backup codes for two-factor sign-in Enterprise

Smaller things

Get the latest build

A new call screen, iPad keyboard shortcuts and links that keep your words

A new call screen

Your iPad, with a keyboard

Links stay in your sentence

The GIF is found before it sends

Say hello to new members

Share from other apps

Voice clips that record every time

Urgent, from end to end Enterprise

Backup codes for two-factor sign-in Enterprise

On Apple Watch

Better on iPad

Smaller things

Get the latest build

Trillian is ready for iPhone Duo

The whole screen, not a window in the middle

Held sideways, it works like an iPad

Upright, it's the iPhone you know

Half open, like a laptop

Closed, on the cover screen

Fold or unfold mid-chat

How we got it ready

Get the latest build

Voice clip transcripts, a new camera and background uploads on iPhone

Read your voice clips

Hold Send for urgent Enterprise

A new camera

Uploads keep going in the background

Staying connected

Also this month

Get the latest build

Link previews that wait for a click, by customer request

Link previews, when you want them

A few other changes

Update Trillian for Windows

Reactions and two-factor setup on Linux

React with an emoji Pro

Two-factor setup, right in the app Enterprise

Transfers you can pause

The smaller stuff

Get the latest build

A customer asked for PDF history exports, so we built them

Chat history as a PDF Business

A few other changes

Try it in your browser

Voice clip transcripts and a new + card on Android

Transcripts, made on your phone

Your tools behind the +

More in this build

Get it on Google Play

Trillian 7.0 for Web brings reactions and themes

Trillian, in your language

Emoji reactions Pro

Dark mode is here Pro

Link previews

Code and spreadsheets, right in your chat

A better image viewer

Send a whole batch of files

Settings that follow you

A few small touches

For administrators Business

Try Trillian 7.0 for Web

Pick your own quick reactions on iPhone and Android

Your reactions, your picks Pro

Elsewhere in these updates

Get the update

Choose when your status message clears on Windows