Self-Hosted Alternatives to Discord

Discord combines text channels, voice rooms and screen sharing for communities and friend groups. People host alternatives to avoid mandatory accounts tied to a corporate platform, to keep moderation and data under their own rules, and to sidestep policy changes or age-verification requirements they never agreed to.

8 open-source alternatives to Discord you can host yourself, ranked by GitHub stars and updated daily.

# App Category Stars Language Updated
1 mattermost/mattermost Chat & Messaging 39,587 TypeScript today
2 zulip/zulip Chat & Messaging 26,211 Python today
3 element-hq/element-web Chat & Messaging 13,654 TypeScript today
4 mumble-voip/mumble Chat & Messaging 8,414 C++ today
5 matrix-org/dendrite archived Chat & Messaging 5,617 Go 1y
6 element-hq/synapse Chat & Messaging 4,786 Python today
7 msgbyte/tailchat Chat & Messaging 3,648 TypeScript 1mo
8 stoatchat/self-hosted Chat & Messaging 2,684 JavaScript 1d