💊 BluePill (v1.1.0) — Native C++20 & Qt6/QML iMessage, SMS & RCS Client for Omarchy / Wayland + Zero-Electron macOS Relay & Web UI (AUR: bluepill)

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💊 BluePill (nertwork/bluepill v1.1.0) — Native C++20 & Qt6/QML iMessage, SMS & RCS Client for Omarchy Linux + Zero-Electron macOS Relay & Web UI

Hey everyone! Excited to share BluePill (nertwork/bluepill v1.1.0) (formerly imsg), a fast, native C++20 and Qt6/QML desktop and CLI client for Apple iMessage, RCS, and SMS built for Omarchy Linux / Hyprland / Wayland, paired with a lightweight zero-Electron macOS chat.db relay daemon & built-in Web UI (bluepill-server) and 100% backward compatibility with legacy BlueBubbles servers!

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📸 Screenshots (Zero-PII Demo Mode)

1. Conversation View — Pinned Conversations Bar, 1-Click 2FA OTP Pill, Edited/Expressive Badges & Inline Tapbacks

2. BluePill Home Dashboard & Built-In Web UI Launcher

3. Full-Window Interactive Photo Lightbox (Zoom, Pan, Save, Copy)

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✨ What's New in BluePill v1.1.0

• 📌 Pinned Conversations Avatar Bar: Native horizontal circular avatar strip at the top of the conversation sidebar synced with macOS ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.messages.pinning.plist (/api/v1/pinned) + right-click Pin / Unpin Conversation.
• 🔑 1-Click 2FA OTP Verification Pill: Automatically extracts 4–8 digit verification codes from incoming SMS/iMessage texts (with smart calendar year filtering 1990..2039) and renders a 🔑 Copy 849201 pill directly on the message bubble.
• ✏️ Edited, Expressive Send & Delivery Failure Badges: Inline · Edited, · sent with confetti/slam/lasers, and ⚠ Not Delivered indicators.
• 📋 Ctrl+V Clipboard Screenshot Paste: Paste Wayland/Hyprland clipboard images directly into the message composer.
• 🌐 Built-In BluePill Web UI (GET /web & bluepill --webui): Browse conversations, pinned chats, and send messages from any browser on your LAN/Tailscale alongside the native Qt6 client.
• 🍎 Zero-Electron macOS Relay Daemon (bluepill-server): Single-file Python 3 stdlib macOS relay (brew install nertwork/tap/bluepill) reading chat.db WAL, AddressBook-v22.abcddb, and binary NSAttributedString streamtyped blobs directly, supporting both HTTPS/Socket.IO v4 and Direct SSH (ssh://user@mac-host). Remains 100% backward-compatible with legacy BlueBubbles Server (1.9.x).
• 🎨 Dynamic Omarchy Theme Sync: Live-watches ~/.config/omarchy/current/theme/ (colors.toml / alacritty.toml / hyprland.conf).

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📦 Installation

Linux Desktop & CLI Client (Arch Linux / Omarchy — AUR)

yay -S bluepill
# or
paru -S bluepill

(Provides /usr/bin/bluepill and a backward-compatible /usr/bin/imsg symlink, and automatically migrates ~/.config/imsg/config.json -> ~/.config/bluepill/config.json.)

macOS Headless Relay Daemon + Web UI (Homebrew)

brew tap nertwork/tap
brew install nertwork/tap/bluepill
bluepill-server doctor
brew services start nertwork/tap/bluepill

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🖥️ Supported & Tested Platforms

Component	Operating Systems	CPU Architectures	Display / Runtime Stack
Linux Desktop Client (bluepill)	Arch Linux · Omarchy Linux · Fedora · Ubuntu/Debian	x86_64 & aarch64 (arm64)	Wayland (Hyprland, Sway, KDE Plasma, GNOME) & X11 · Qt6 / C++20 · PipeWire · mako
macOS Relay Daemon (bluepill-server)	macOS Sequoia (15.x), Sonoma (14.x), Ventura (13.x), Tahoe (26.x)	Apple Silicon (arm64) & Intel (x86_64)	Python 3.9+ stdlib (sqlite3, plistlib) · ~/Library/Messages/chat.db WAL

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🔗 Links

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/nertwork/bluepill
• Arch User Repository (aur/bluepill): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bluepill
• macOS Homebrew Tap (nertwork/homebrew-tap): https://github.com/nertwork/homebrew-tap
• macOS Relay & BlueBubbles Setup Guide: https://github.com/nertwork/bluepill/blob/main/docs/BLUEBUBBLES_SETUP_GUIDE.md