A place to talk that belongs to you.

Gryt is voice, video and text chat. Download the app and you can make your own server right from it. Your chats stay on your machine, and nobody has to hand over an email, a phone number or a photo of their face to join.

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Or try it in the browser, or host it yourself.

Made from the real app's own components: a server, friends, a chat and a call with screen share.

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10 November 2026Sign In With Your PhoneI'm Taking a Break1 November 2026Bring Your Discord DMs to Gryt31 October 2026Gryt 1.15: The Call Beside Your Chat31 October 2026

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1.15.1111 NovemberThe drop hint goes away when you drop a file on the message box, and Minimize to tray works without an account.1.15.1011 NovemberAdd a server shows Gryt Cloud, the hosting we're working on, and a call you're not in is easier to spot.1.15.910 NovemberAn owl shows you around Gryt now, and a screen share tells you its quality and frame rate.1.15.810 NovemberOld messages you bring over when linking a phone and a computer now show up on the new device.

Why Gryt

A different way to run a chat

Free and open source, with nobody selling ads on it. See every feature.

Your server, your disk

Make a server from the app, or put it on a machine that stays on. The messages live there, and nobody needs an account with us.

Voice built from scratch

Its own voice engine and media server, and screen share at up to 4K and 240 fps.

Bring what you already have

Import your emoji and your Discord DMs, then pick one of 47 themes.

Features

What else is in it

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ThemesBuilt-in themes, or build your own and share it as a link.Your own emojiUpload them, import a ZIP or pull a set from emoji.gg, animated ones too.LAN party modeFind servers on your network and let people in without invite codes.An account is optionalJoin with a guest identity that fits in a password manager.Bring your Discord DMsDrop in Discord's data package and your side of a chat comes across, encrypted.Bots and addonsBuild on Gryt with bots, client addons and server plugins.

Motivation

One senior engineer, four years, and a voice stack written from scratch.

I started Gryt in May 2022. I wanted somewhere for my friends to talk that I wasn't renting from anybody, and the chat apps we were using kept asking for a bit more of us every year.

Roughly two of those four years went into WebRTC before the media server was written at all. I asked every developer at my workplace how ICE negotiation and DTLS-SRTP actually work, and not one of them could tell me. So it was me, the RFCs and a lot of trial and error. The voice server is written in Go on Pion rather than an off-the-shelf SDK, because when something breaks in a call I want to be able to trace it down to an individual packet.

It's still one person. The app, the server, the voice stack, the identity system, the component library, the mobile app, the docs and this page. That's either the best or the worst thing about Gryt depending on what you need from it, and you should know that before you put a community on it.

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Get involved

Gryt is made by one person and a few people who keep showing up. There's room for more.

Join our serverTalk to the people who make it, in Gryt.Report a bugFrom inside the app, or on GitHub.ContributeEvery repository is public on GitHub.Read the docsHosting, bots, plugins and the APIs.

Sponsors

Gryt is free, and sponsors keep it running

Running Gryt costs about €1,200 a year. Nobody sponsors it monthly yet, so you’d be the first.

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