
Discord is a dynamic instant messaging and VoIP social platform built for seamless communication across voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media sharing. While originally designed for gaming, it excels as a versatile tool for relaxing with friends or building a vibrant community. You can easily customize your own dedicated space and gather your friends to talk while playing your favorite games, or hang out, making it the ideal free voice chat application for gamers who value private server features.
Discord lets friends chat via voice, video, or text, and join servers where large communities come together. While gaming is Discord’s primary focus — at one point even offering free PC games to paid subscribers before discontinuing the effort due to competition from Steam — its useful features extend to non-gamers as well.
Discord offers highly flexible communication options, ranging from secure private chats to dynamic, large-scale communities. These virtual communities, known as “servers,” function as personalized, dedicated hubs where people can easily gather around a shared interest. Each server is a collection of continuous text chat rooms and voice channels that anyone can join with a simple invite link. Ultimately, it is the premier space for fostering a vibrant online community centered on gaming, hobbies, or virtually any topic you can imagine.
Features of Discord:
Group chat that’s all fun games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Make your group chats more fun.
Use custom emojis, stickers, soundboard effects, and more to add your personality to your voice, video, or text chat. Set your avatar and a custom status, and write your profile to show up in chat your way.
Stream like you’re in the same room.
High-quality, low-latency streaming makes it feel like you’re hanging out on the couch with friends while playing games, watching shows, viewing photos, or even working on homework.
Join in when you’re free; there’s no need to call.
Easily hop in and out of voice or text chats without having to call or invite anyone, so your party chat lasts before, during, and after your game session.
See who’s around to chill.
See who’s around, playing games, or just hanging out. For supported games, you can view the modes or characters your friends are using and join them directly.
Always have something to do together.
Enjoy a shared experience with friends. Watch videos, play built-in games, listen to music, or scroll through memes together. Seamlessly communicate within the same group chat: text, make voice or video calls, and even play games concurrently.
Wherever you game, hang out here.
Whether on your PC, phone, or console, you can still hang out on Discord. Easily switch between devices and use tools to manage multiple group chats with friends.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 10+
- macOS 10.15+ (Catalina)+
- Linux Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 16.2+ and Fedora Linux 32+
- Android 7+
- iOS 14+