WHERE CHAOS MEETS CHAT

Free voice, video, and text chat for your group — no tracking, no bloat, no paywall.

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Why ruckus?

Chat without the baggage.

Privacy First

No tracking, no data harvesting, no peeking at your messages. Your conversations stay between you and your friends — not us and our advertisers.

Screen Sharing

Stream your screen to a voice channel. Show off gameplay, walk through a project, or watch stuff together.

File Sharing

Drop images, videos, documents — whatever you need. Share files right in the conversation without leaving the app.

Zero Bloat

No game stores, no AI chatbots, no social feeds. Just the stuff you actually came for — chat and voice.

Federated Servers Soon

Connect your server to others across the network. Shared channels, cross-server friends, one seamless experience.

What you get

What you actually came for.

Voice

Crystal Clear
Zero Lag

Drop into voice channels that actually sound good. No robot voices, no cutting out mid-sentence. Just you and your friends, sounding like you're in the same room.

Crystal Clear Zero Lag
Chat

Real-Time
Messaging

Rich text, emoji, GIFs, and file sharing — all instant. Conversations that flow naturally, not like you're waiting for a page to load.

Real-Time Messaging
Servers

Channels, Roles
& Permissions

Organize your community with text and voice channels, assign roles, and fine-tune who can do what. Structure that scales from 5 friends to 500.

Channels, Roles & Permissions
Apps

Desktop, Web
& Mobile

Native desktop app, full web client, and a PWA for mobile right now. Native iOS and Android apps are in the works.

Desktop, Web & Mobile

But like... why switch?

Because you deserve better. Here's what you're missing.

Feature
Discord
Ruckus
File Uploads
10 MB (25 MB with Nitro)
500 MB
Message Length
2,000 chars (4,000 with Nitro)
4,000 chars
Voice Quality
96 kbps (384 kbps with Nitro)
Full quality
Screen Sharing
720p 30fps (1080p 60fps with Nitro)
1080p 60fps
Privacy
Tracks activity, sells data
Zero tracking, zero ads

Ready to cause a ruckus?

Grab the app, jump in, and start making noise with your people.

Roadmap

What's coming next.

Ruckus already has voice, chat, screen sharing, and more. Here's what we're building next.

Federation

Connect servers across the network. Shared channels, cross-server friends, one seamless experience.

Self-Hosting

Run your own instance. Your hardware, your data, your rules.

Native Mobile App

Full native iOS and Android apps. Not a wrapper — built from the ground up.

In-Game Overlay

Voice chat, text, and notifications without alt-tabbing.