Open Source Discord Alternatives
The best open source alternative to Discord is Element. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Element or Mumble. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Discord and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Discord are Signal, Zulip, Matrix and Jami.
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Discord alternatives are mainly Group Chat Apps, but if you're looking for Video Calling Apps or Instant Messengers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Online, iPhone, Chrome OS, Self-Hosted, Screen Sharing, Self-Hosted + Open Source and Windows Phone. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Discord.
Alternatives list
Dirc is a peer-to-peer web application which uses WebRTC to set up connections between chat participants without requiring a back-end server. The static files can be self-hosted. Other features:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Self-Hosted
Start your next video call with a single click. No download, plug-in or login required. Just get straight to talking, messaging and sharing your screen.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Online
- Microsoft Edge
- Internet Explorer
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Brave
- Firefox
Make video calls to anybody in the world with a private connection. Share the conversation by sharing url.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Android
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This app is the Prologue, and you and your friends create the story. Chat, voice call, video call, screenshare, and more. Always free and privacy first.
Clatter is a free and open source chatting platform for work and casual purposes and is the successor to TeamSpace, another chatting platform but for work only. Clatter is very early in development, so it lacks crucial features, but it has been updated regularly.
Webrowse helps your team easily collaborate via a shared browsing window during your online meetings. Webrowse is based in chrome, and so regardless of the meeting platform you use, you and your team can easily collaborate inside Chrome.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
GitChat is a free, open-source IDE extension that brings real-time developer chat, GitHub-based social networking, and repo community channels into VS Code, Cursor, and compatible editors - without leaving your coding environment.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Visual Studio Code
- Cursor
- Windsurf
- iPhone
- iPad
- Mac
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