Stoat Chat
Instant messaging platform supporting text and voice channels, live video calls, secure screen sharing, private group chats, customizable permissions, moderation tools, bot integration, privacy-focused design, open-source development, and cross-platform use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Rust
- Flathub
- F-Droid
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
- Customizable
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
- Encrypted Chat
- Chat Bot
- Real time collaboration
- Cloud Sync
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Voice 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
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crse added Stoat Chat as alternative to Fluux Messenger- thinks Encrypted Chat is a important feature of Stoat Chat
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What is Stoat Chat?
Stoat Chat, previously known as Revolt, is a chat platform offering text and voice channels, video calling, screen sharing, mod tools, and more. Users can join existing communities or create their own. The platform prioritizes user privacy and data security. Beyond messaging, Stoat Chat encourages community building and idea exchange.
Stoat Chat does not sell user data, use external trackers, or display ads, abiding by the strict GDPR data protection regulations. It allows users to personalize their chat environment with custom bots and server roles. The platform accommodates both small and large communities, offering role-based access control and server customization.
Other features include text channels with image attachment, user mentions, and website linking. It offers fine-grained permissions, mod tools, and bots for added functionality. The platform is customizable, reflecting the user's personal aesthetic. It is free and open-source.
Stoat Chat ensures secure and confidential communication with no ads or trackers. It is developed in Europe, adhering to GDPR privacy standards. It simplifies direct messaging and group chats, allowing users to send friend requests and start communicating instantly.
Stoat Chat information
Developed by
Revolt Platforms Ltd Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4Alternatives
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Social & Communications, Office & Productivity, Remote Work & Education, Security & PrivacyGitHub repository
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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.
those who's fleeing from Discord, please be aware Stoat team was out of emails yesterday (11.02.26), but today it seems to be ok again. if you didn't receive a confirmation email, please give it a chance and wait a little bit U_U 人
If you're fleeing Discord, you're a moron. The worst that could happen is you're not allowed in an 'adult content' channel IF they ask you to prove your age, and you don't.
They made a news release yesterday saying that they likely already know how old you are, because that's how the internet works behind the scenes these days. If they need to verify your age, they'll verify your age, and delete your proof from their servers. Also, you don't HAVE to provide proof. As I said, you just won't be able to get in to NSFR channels or whatever.
Personally, I've never ever used Discord to look for NSFR content.. but whatever floats your boat.
Certainly no reason to "flee Discord".
No reason to flee Discord? Discord leaked 70k ID's in October previous year. Used to verify age in UK and Australia.
Discord movements are a danger to global privacy constant veryfing age by AI through searching messages in servers. In nowadays you can get banned caused you just typed that "i have 10 years old" in some part of joke or someone edited message that you have this "10 years".
Support of Discord that we know by few years non exist; Replaced just by bots that can't recognize context of talk.
NSFW content is not that big deal of that for existence of Discord, but AI but breaking the privacy of the conversation by constantly acting and AI checking if the person writing is definitely an adult is a turning point for many to distance themselves from this platform
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.