Can Rambox CE still be used?

The 2022 binary still installs, but it is no longer fixed and its engine is old. Some services work poorly or not at all inside it, and no security flaw found since has been patched in that version.

Can I bring my Rambox configuration across?

There is no automatic import. Services are added by hand in Nexus, and each session signs in once.

Will Nexus go paid too?

The code is published under the MIT licence. That licence is irrevocable for releases already published: whatever happens to the project, what is out stays free and reusable.

Are there other free options?

Yes, and the comparison page on this site lists them: Ferdium in particular, which is active and cross-platform. The goal here is not to pretend there is only one choice.

Nexus as a free Rambox alternative

Plenty of people search for “Rambox free” and land on a pricing page. The explanation is simple, and it is public: the community edition is no longer developed, and the commercial product took its place.

What happened

For a user the consequence is twofold. The 2022 binary still installs, but it ships a browser engine several years old: modern web services behave worse and worse inside it, and some now refuse to load at all. And no vulnerability fixed since has been backported.

Rambox today, against Nexus

	Rambox CE (archived)	Rambox (commercial)	Nexus
Last free release	0.8.0, 21 April 2022	—	1.0.0
Price	Free, unmaintained	Subscription	Free
Source code	Open, archived	Closed	Open, MIT
Engine kept current	No	Yes	Yes, Chromium 150
Isolated sessions	Yes	Yes	Yes
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows 10 and 11

Recorded on 8 August 2026. Rambox’s commercial product is alive and maintained: if a subscription does not bother you it is a serious option, and a more complete one than Nexus in the number of systems it covers.

Why a frozen engine eventually becomes a problem

An aggregator ships its own copy of Chromium; it only moves when the application publishes a new version. An application that stopped in 2022 therefore keeps the 2022 engine indefinitely. Web services, meanwhile, deprecate old engines regularly: Slack does it twice a year, with dates announced in advance.

That is why maintaining the engine is not an implementation detail: it is what determines the useful life of the tool. An aggregator that stops publishing loses its services one at a time, without breaking anything else, which makes the pattern all the harder to diagnose.

What Nexus keeps, and what it does not

Kept: the isolated session per service, which is what allows several accounts of one service in parallel. It was Rambox’s best idea.
Kept: the sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, unread badges and free reordering of services.
Not kept: the sheer count of built-in services. Nexus offers a catalogue of the common ones and accepts any URL, without claiming an exhaustive directory.
Not kept: cross-platform support. Nexus is a Windows 10 and 11 application only.

Common questions

Can Rambox CE still be used?: The 2022 binary still installs, but it is no longer fixed and its engine is old. Some services work poorly or not at all inside it, and no security flaw found since has been patched in that version.
Can I bring my Rambox configuration across?: There is no automatic import. Services are added by hand in Nexus, and each session signs in once.
Will Nexus go paid too?: The code is published under the MIT licence. That licence is irrevocable for releases already published: whatever happens to the project, what is out stays free and reusable.
Are there other free options?: Yes, and the comparison page on this site lists them: Ferdium in particular, which is active and cross-platform. The goal here is not to pretend there is only one choice.