Your conversations. Your data. Your control.
Open-source chat platform for friends who value privacy. Voice, video, and screen sharing without the bloat or surveillance.
No account with us. No subscription. No upsells, ever.
Everything you liked about group chat, none of the landlord
Your conversations stay yours
Everything anyone says or shares sits on your machine. No company reads it, sells it, trains on it, or hands it to anyone else.
Hang out, not just chat
Voice, webcam and screen sharing with sound, so you can play something together or watch a film without anyone paying for a better picture.
No limits and no upsells
No premium tier, no member cap, no locked features. The only limit is the machine you put it on, and it asks for very little.
You decide who does what
Give people the run of the place or keep them to one room. Who can talk, post, invite or change things is entirely up to you.
Make it your own
Add a music bot, a soundboard, or something nobody has built yet. Extras are one click away, and anyone can make more.
Nobody is watching
No ads, no tracking, no algorithm deciding what you see. Nothing about your server is reported to us, because there is no us to report it to.
See Sharkord in Action
A glimpse into Sharkord's sleek interface and powerful features.
Watch something together
Share your screen with the sound, put your cameras on, and hang out like you are in the same room.
Rooms for whatever you are into
Replies, reactions, your own emojis and a list of who is around. It works the way you already expect.
Settings that fit on one screen
Name it, decide who can join, hand out roles. Everything you need and nothing you have to learn.
Running in about a minute
No setup wizard, no database to install, no account to create. Download it, run it, and it is already working.
- 1
Run it
Download the file and open it. There is nothing to configure and nothing else to install.
- 2
Open your browser
Go to the address it prints and the whole app is there. Same on any device, nothing to download.
- 3
Send the link
Your friends pick a name and they are in. That is the entire setup.
Download the file for your system and open it. Done.
docker run \
-p 4991:4991/tcp \
-p 40000:40000/tcp \
-p 40000:40000/udp \
-v ./data:/home/bun/.config/sharkord \
--name sharkord \
sharkord/sharkord:latestOne command, and it keeps itself running in the background.
Docker with Caddy is the setup we recommend
It puts your server on your own domain with HTTPS, which browsers insist on before they let anyone use a camera or share a screen. Two small files and one command.
No domain of your own? We give you one for free.
Bare by default, yours by the evening
We keep the app small so it stays fast and easy to understand. Anything else you want, you add in a couple of clicks from a growing list of free plugins.
Music bot
Queue up something and let it play in the voice room while you talk over it.
Live TV
Put a channel or a stream on for everyone in the room at once.
Missing something? If you can write a little TypeScript, you can build it yourself. This is a whole working plugin:
import { createRegisterCommand } from "@sharkord/plugin-sdk";
export const onLoad = async (ctx) => {
const registerCommand = createRegisterCommand(ctx);
registerCommand("hello", { description: "Says hello" }, async (invoker) =>
`Hello, user ${invoker.userId}`,
);
ctx.events.on("user:joined", ({ username }) => {
ctx.messages.send(1, `<p>${username} just joined</p>`);
});
};You already know how to use it
Discord and TeamSpeak got plenty right, and we kept that. What we dropped is the ads, the paid tiers, and the company sitting in the middle of your group.
| What matters | Sharkord | Discord | TeamSpeak 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
It lives on your machine Nobody else holds your messages or your files | |||
Free, with nothing held back No premium tier waiting behind the good features | Nitro | Paid for bigger servers | |
Nothing to install to join You send a link, they open it | |||
Video and screen sharing Cameras, screens, and the sound that goes with them | |||
Sharp picture without paying Nobody blurs your stream to sell you an upgrade | |||
No ads, no tracking Nothing about you is collected or sold | |||
You can see how it works The code is public and anyone can check it | |||
Phone and desktop apps Where we are still behind | Browser only |
Based on what each one gives you for free today. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
Built for a group, not a crowd
Discord is built to hold rooms of thousands of strangers. Sharkord is not trying to be that, and never will be. It is for the people you would actually invite round: your family, your friends, the group you game with, the handful of you who work together.
No public directory, no growing an audience, no moderating newcomers you have never met. Just a room that is always there when you want it.
Wondering whether it will handle your group? We answer that here.
Ready to take control?
The demo is a real server you can wander around in, no sign-up. It is a small one, so bring a friend rather than a football team, and see if it feels right.