Chat, call, share your screen and watch videos together.
Free. Runs in your browser. No email needed.
Three steps. The first one is the hardest, and it's picking a name.
A username and a password. That's the whole signup. No email. No phone number.
A space is your group's home. It comes with a #general chat and a voice room, ready to go.
Copy your invite link and drop it wherever your friends already are. They click, they're in.
The stuff you'd expect from a group chat, plus a few things we just really wanted.
Watch parties
Paste a video link and everyone watches in sync. One person holds the remote, so nobody ends up three seconds behind.
Turn on Dream mode and the whole room glows with the colors of whatever you're watching.
Dream mode is for computers. Phones get the regular player.
Voice and video
Hop into a voice room, turn on your camera, or share your screen. One click in, one click out.
A few of the themes
Profiles and themes
Pick one of eleven themes or build your own. Give your profile a banner, a GIF avatar and your top three songs.
None of it costs extra. It's your profile, not a product.
Turn on the lock in a DM or a group chat. From then on, your messages are scrambled on your device before they are sent. Our server only stores the scrambled version, so we can't read them. Neither can anyone who breaks into our server.
movie night at 8?
You and your friend always see the real message.
movie night at 8?
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Readable. With the lock off, the server keeps your message as plain text.
Scrambled. Only your devices hold the keys, so this is all we ever get.
Our mission
Not to an ad company. Not to whoever buys the app next year.
So Ohiyo is free. The code is open for anyone to read. And if you'd rather not rely on us at all, you can run your own copy.
That's the whole plan.
The desktop app stays in the tray, tells you when a friend writes, and updates itself. Everything else is the same as in your browser.
A beta that Apple has not verified. The first time, macOS will refuse to open it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and press Open Anyway.
After an update, macOS may ask for your password so Ohiyo can open its saved keys. Choose Always Allow.
Built automatically and not yet tried by hand. The AppImage updates itself; the .deb and .rpm update through your system and ask for your password. Voice may not work in the Linux app; it does in the browser.
On Windows? Not yet. Ohiyo in your browser works there today.
We don't run ads and we don't sell your data.
Custom emoji, themes and GIF avatars are just part of the app, for everyone.
The code is open source under the AGPL. Anyone can read it, check it or run it.
Paste a Discord server template link. Ohiyo rebuilds your channels, roles and colors, then shows you which rooms are private before you invite anyone.
Ohiyo is one small server program and one database file. Put it on a cheap box and your community lives on your hardware.
Juno
git clone https://github.com/New1Direction/ohiyoShort ones. We'd rather tell you than have you guess.
Yes. There are no ads, and every feature is free for everyone. The one thing we'll charge for is optional: running your community's server on our machines so it never sleeps, about $8 a month for the whole community, once managed hosting is open. Running it yourself stays free.
Locked DMs and group chats: no. Channels inside a space: yes, our server can, like most chat apps. The lock tells you which is which.
No. Ohiyo runs in your browser, on a computer or a phone. A new desktop app is on the way.
Your group's home. It holds your channels, your voice rooms and your people. On Discord it would be called a server.
That's Kikka. Kikka keeps your seat warm.
