Strike a chord in your circle.

Chord is chat with spaces, channels, and DMs. It runs on XMPP, so your account works with any server, and no company owns the network.

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tsukasa20:41

who left a hoodie at mine

kagami20:43

grey one?

tsukasa20:43

yeah

NEW

kagami20:44

thats konata's

konata20:44

i was wondering where that went

konata i was wondering where that went

miyuki20:46

you said it was stolen

patty@xmpp.example.net20:47

hoodie custody hearing at 9?

Message #generalGIF

This is Chord.

Yes, it's a real app. Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android, in whichever of dark and light you'll argue about.

Chord on the desktop: the basement space with its channels, and a friend group talking about a new song in the music channel, with a link preview and a fire reaction

Chord's Home: direct messages and a group chat, with unread counts — **DMs and group chats**Home is where the people are. Unread counts included, so you know who's been waiting.

**DMs and group chats**Home is where the people are. Unread counts included, so you know who's been waiting.

A channel with the member list open, showing owners, admins, and who is online or offline — **Who's here**The member list tells you who runs the place, who's online, and who's pretending to be offline.

**Who's here**The member list tells you who runs the place, who's online, and who's pretending to be offline.

And in your pocket.

Same spaces, same channels, smaller screen. Swipe in from the left for the rail.

Chord on Android: the music channel with a reply, an unread divider, and a typing line — **The channel**Replies, a red line for what you missed, and a typing indicator to keep you in suspense.

**The channel**Replies, a red line for what you missed, and a typing indicator to keep you in suspense.

Chord on Android: the space rail and channel list in the side drawer — **The drawer**All your spaces, one swipe away. Yes, the rail is on the phone too.

**The drawer**All your spaces, one swipe away. Yes, the rail is on the phone too.

Chord on Android: Home with direct messages, a group chat, and contacts — **Home**Your DMs and group chats, and the little orange numbers that mean someone wants you.

**Home**Your DMs and group chats, and the little orange numbers that mean someone wants you.

The chat you know, on a network nobody owns.

One address, any server

Your address looks like an email address. Talk to people on any XMPP server, not only the one you signed up on.

Spaces, channels, and DMs

The layout you already use. Group channels into spaces, and keep DMs one click away.

Your server, or ours

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Protocols, not platforms.

Chord speaks XMPP, an open standard from the IETF. Servers talk to each other directly, so no single company sits in the middle of your conversations.

Your account works in other XMPP apps too. Chord is one client of many.
Your spaces live on your server, not on ours.

Make it yours.

Chord Dark, Chord Light come built in, plus Catppuccin Mocha and Latte. Themes are written in CSS, so import one from a link or write your own. We won't stop you.

Imported themes can't load anything from outside the app.
A linked theme asks before it updates. No surprise makeovers.

Chord's Appearance settings: a Dark, Light, or System mode switch, and the built-in themes Chord Dark, Catppuccin Mocha, Chord Light, and Catppuccin Latte

Get Chord.

Chord is still in testing, so expect a few rough edges!

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Desktop: Linux, Windows and macOS (ARM). Android: 8.0 or later.