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.
- stars on GitHub
- 1.6k
- latest release
- v0.0.31
- open source license
- MIT
- from download to running
- 1 min
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.
Play together
Cameras on, game on screen, everyone in the same room. Crystal clear quality.
Extend with plugins
Extend the core experience with plugins like music bots, soundboards and more.
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.
Under your control
Name it, decide who can join, hand out roles. The server is yours, you are in control.
Your own emojis
Upload the ones your group actually uses, GIFs included, and react with them anywhere. No limits, no restrictions.
Plugins in a couple of clicks
Browse what the community made and install it straight from your settings. No files to copy around.
Roles that do what they say
Who can talk, post, share a screen or change things. One switch each, nothing hidden.
Know who is around
Everyone on your server in one list, with their roles, when they joined and whether they are online.
Share freely
Set your own upload limits and quotas. If your disk can hold it, your friends can send it.
Sharp picture, no subscription
Share your screen at up to 4k 60fps, no subscription required. Everything stays sharp for everyone.
Make your profile yours
Pick an avatar, a banner, a colour and a bio, so people know it is you.
Small by default, yours with plugins
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 type { PluginContext } from "@sharkord/plugin-sdk";
const onLoad = async (ctx: PluginContext) => {
ctx.commands.register({
name: "hello",
description: "Says hello.",
executes: async (invoker) => `Hello, user ${invoker.userId}`,
});
ctx.events.on("user:joined", async ({ username }) => {
await ctx.messages.send(1, `<p>${username} just joined</p>`);
});
};
export { onLoad };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 | |||
Desktop app Windows, macOS and Linux, or just use the browser | |||
Mobile app Where we are still behind | Planned |
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
Not for thousands of strangers. For your friends, your family and the people you game with, in a room that is always there with no one watching.
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.
Windows, macOS and Linux. Download the file for your system and open it. Done.
Download Sharkord
The app to join, the server to host. Both free, both open source.
Desktop app
v0.1.2For everyone joining a server. The browser works too, the app gives the best experience.
A mobile app is planned.
Server
v0.0.31For whoever hosts. One file, nothing else to install.
Give your group a place of its own
The demo is a real server you can wander around in, no sign-up. Just pick an identity and join.