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Revolt

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Revolt is a user-first, privacy focused chat platform.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • GB flagUnited Kingdom

Platforms

  • Mac  Available as a .dmg file
  • Windows  Visit GitHub for an .exe installer, or download Revolt directly from the Microsoft Store
  • Linux  Revolt is available on the AUR, and as an .appimage file
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • Rust
  • Flathub
  • F-Droid
  • GitHub
3.9 / 5 Avg rating (15)
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13comments
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Support for Themes
  3.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Text chat
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Bots
  5.  Multiple Servers
  6.  VoiP Calls
  7.  Cross-Platform
  8.  Dark Mode
  9.  Reactions
  10.  Custom roles
  11.  Two-factor Authentication
  12.  Self-hosted
  13.  Support for @mentions
  14.  Group Voice Chat
  15.  Team Collaboration
  16.  Public groups chat
  17.  Multi Channel
  18.  Support for MarkDown
  19.  Chat Bot
  20.  Real time collaboration
  21.  Cloud Sync
  22.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  23.  Voice Chat
  24.  Low Latency
  25.  Rust

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Revolt information

  • Developed by

    GB flagRevolt Platforms Ltd
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9 (15 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    44 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Hindi
    • Azerbaijani
    • Belarusian
    • Bulgarian
    • Bengali
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • German
    • Greek
    • Spanish
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Irish
    • Croatian
    • Hungarian
    • Armenian
    • Indonesian
    • Icelandic
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Luxembourgish
    • Lithuanian
    • Latvian
    • Macedonian
    • Malay
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Dutch
    • Persian
    • Esperanto
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Breton
    • Hebrew
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Slovene
    • Serbian
    • Albanian
    • Sinhala, Sinhalese
    • Tamil
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Urdu
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese
    • Chinese
    • Afrikaans
    • Assamese
    • Basque
    • Cornish
    • Galician
    • Georgian
    • Kazakh
    • Kurdish
    • Latin
    • Limburgish, Limburgan, Limburger
    • Malayalam
    • Maltese
    • Nepali
    • Norwegian Nynorsk
    • Telugu
    • Welsh

Our users have written 13 comments and reviews about Revolt , and it has gotten 92 likes

Revolt was added to AlternativeTo by architsastam on Apr 19, 2021 and this page was last updated Apr 26, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Revolt is praised as a promising, open-source alternative to Discord, appreciated for its familiar interface and lack of paywall features. However, concerns exist regarding its buggy performance, lack of video chat, and problematic community behavior. While lightweight and suitable for gaming communities, its mobile apps and self-hosting support are criticized. Concerns about moderation practices and management's conduct also arise, impacting its appeal despite potential as a Discord substitute.
Top Positive Comment
RemovedUser
Jan 11, 2023
2

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.

Top Negative Comment
fuck off
Jul 30, 2022
3

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.

catalin560
Oct 26, 2022

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...

RemovedUser
Jan 11, 2023

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.

ITryOutnSee
Jul 17, 2024
1

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.

Flamy
Aug 30, 2024

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.

3DJ
Feb 4, 2024
0

Discord, but lightweight Though it's so basic that it's far from a replacement, so I'm looking forward to the rewrite!

BarnMTB
Aug 27, 2023
0

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.

Mark
Mar 8, 2023
1

the best alternative to discord

Guest
Jan 24, 2023
-15

Horrible community furries , lgbt ,etc

B C
Feb 20, 2023

Because of us ????? Then we don't want you hun.

tommycattyyt
Dec 15, 2023

Really, hating on the LGTBQ community?

Omar
Apr 9, 2024

You don't have to participate in those communities. I myself never interacted with them (not that I have something against it).

The hole point of it is that you can do your community and can bring your friends to it. And compared to the main competitor, discord is objectively way better. From example revolt is pro privacy and not being run by big corporations.

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What is Revolt ?

Communication is critical. Privacy is essential.

Simple, just how you like it. Revolt is built on the same technologies as other popular chat applications, so there won’t be any need to re-learn on how to use it. Also, you can customize it to your heart’s content.

Open source to the public. We believe that there’s more to it than just code. By having the Revolt project open source means that we can create a transparent layer between us and the user. Contribute, create your own bot or make your own version of the Revolt client.

Available everywhere. From desktop to mobile, the Revolt app is available wherever you are, so you can chat, call or get in a video call, even if you're not in front of your computer.

Your data should be yours, not ours. Privacy has become a major concern over the past few years, and we wanted to take action by building a privacy-safe, open source chat platform without any data aggregation.

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