Stoat Chat
Stoat (previously Revolt) is a chat platform that puts users first. With text & voice channels, video calling, screen sharing, permissions, mod tools, bots & more. Join any community or build one just the way you like it. It also respects your privacy.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Rust
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- GitHub
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
Features
- Ad-free
- Text chat
- No Tracking
- Multiple Servers
- Bots
- VoiP Calls
- Cross-Platform
- Reactions
- Dark Mode
- Two-factor Authentication
- Custom roles
- Group Voice Chat
- Self-hosted
- Support for @mentions
- Team Collaboration
- Public groups chat
- Multi Channel
- Support for MarkDown
- Chat Bot
- Real time collaboration
- Cloud Sync
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Voice Chat
- Encrypted Chat
- Low Latency
- Rust
Stoat Chat News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Stoat Chat
Chat app Revolt rebrands to Stoat, keeps all services, features, and core values unchangedRevolt, the open source chat service positioned as a privacy-focused alternative to Discord, has re...
Recent activities
- gwrvan-barre added Encrypted Chat as a feature to Stoat Chat
- gwrvan-barre reviewed Stoat Chat
Best Discord alternative !
- gwrvan-barre liked Stoat Chat
moughxyz added Stoat Chat as alternative to Shape Teams
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What is Stoat Chat?
Stoat (previously Revolt) is a chat platform that puts users first. With text & voice channels, video calling, screen sharing, permissions, mod tools, bots & more. Join any community or build one just the way you like it. It also respects your privacy.
Here's the Plan
We believe that chat apps should be more than just a way to send messages. They should be a place where people can come together, share ideas, and build communities. We want to create a chat app that is truly built with the user in mind.
Take it from the Founder
My vision is chat software that doesn't suck. —insert
Stoat Chat information
Developed by
Revolt Platforms Ltd Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3.9Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
If you are looking into a discord alternative I personally prefer this one over element and others alike because this project seems to be moving in a direction that is focused on “gaming-adjacent” communities. So if the project doesn’t stop being developed (and even if it does it will probably be forked) it may one day replace Discord.
The app is buggy , the community is toxic and the voice chat doesn't even work. The owners of the app will platform-ban your account just because they dislike you. I don't recommend discord either , just stop using these kind of shitty apps and go touch grass.
agree that their only community that they currently have is incredibly toxic and that the owners are twats, but this still can be useful to whoever can self host it...
If you get platform banned it’s highly unlikely it’s just because they “don’t like you”. You probably did or said something stupid. Almost all the “main” devs are in a university studying and doing classes, they would rather post out-dated among us memes than platform-ban you because “they dislike you”. You probably said/did something and even more likely did it on multiple servers or kept making new accounts to repeatedly do the same offense. At least from what I have seen even if you say some bigotry level stuff they will ban you on the “main” server because it’s against the rules, but you can go to another or make your own. The only platform bans I have witnessed sorta, are the ones where they got reported multiple times by different users of some devious deads they were doing. There also is no technical “app”. As far as I know I’m pretty sure nothing native has been developed. Native apps are being developed, but you could also instead of complaining find out a way to help/contribute as the project is FOSS.
Best Discord alternative !
Revolt is a semi open source application meaning it contains some components to the application which are specifically closed source. The self hostable version is not up to date being the same version as the main instance is & is stripped of features due to those features being proprietary such as the admin control panel, automod platform moderation, server discovery, & built in imgur replica.
Many users online have written bad reviews of their experience in multiple webpages stating that the platform staff engages in many unethical behaviors including taking action out of prejudice. The staff is a majority of underage youths who are lead by adults exploiting the youths for their coding contributions.
Although the functionality of customization is nice this application is a decent one it's the people behind it & their intentions which have hindered the growth & created a false positive recognition while attempting to sweep the bad press under the rug.
If your looking to use this as a self-hosting alternative know that you will be completely on your own if you run into any trouble. The staff will not support any issues when it comes to self hosting they want users to not self host & stay on their instance even though they made it self hostable because the userbase for revolt is small.
Do you have a source for this? Particularly the claim about young devs being exploited by their elder contributers? While I wouldn't be surprised, I'm hesitant to believe that with no source since there are many cases of genuine good-faith collaboration between adults and youths being interpreted as being exploitative.
Discord, but lightweight Though it's so basic that it's far from a replacement, so I'm looking forward to the rewrite!
It feels nice enough, but their Android & iOS apps are just a PWA web wrapper right now; which can be essential for a communication app. I don't trust that a PWA client on a mobile phone would handle & scale well once your server got large with hundreds of images, videos, and gifs in each channel like on Discord.
It also doesn't show a persistent in-call control in notification while using other apps - which is a basic & may indicate that calls doesn't work well in background.
Other comments about toxic community & ban-happy admins are also highly worrying; you can choose to just stay inside your own servers and avoid the centralized Public Server Directory, and I can confirm that most servers listed there are advertised as belonging to some certain types, but the real issue is that if their moderation are as terrible as Discord's with things like server-wide nukebans then it's not a good sign.
the best alternative to discord
False in many ways.