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Sonion Chat 5 · the most free Discord alternative

Talk, hang out and go live with your friends.

Servers, voice and video calls, screen sharing, custom profiles and a shop full of things the community made. No subscription, no paywall on the fun parts.

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Hosted in the EU Two-factor sign-in Free for everyone

Voice that just works

Hop into a voice channel, call a friend, share your camera. Noise suppression and push to talk built in.

Go Live

Share your game, a window or your whole screen with everyone in the call, in HD. No boosts, no subscription.

Make it yours

Palettes, backgrounds, fonts, your own intro and sounds, avatar decorations and badges you actually earn.

New in Sonion Chat 5

The most free Discord alternative just got weirder.

A new look, random events for everyone at once, secrets to find, faster voice, and a place to tell us about bugs. Still free. Still no paywall.

5.0🔦

Random events

Now and then something happens to everyone online at the same moment. A blackout, a blood moon, a meteor shower, low gravity, a disco…

5.0💡

Fix the blackout

When the lights go out, tiny light bulbs are hidden somewhere on your screen. Find one with your flashlight. Enough people find one and the lights come back for everybody.

5.0🎈

Pop balloons, catch shards

Balloons, moon shards, meteors and disco notes give onions. Or chip in together in the Shop to start an event: the pot becomes the prize.

5.0🥚

Easter eggs

Some are hidden in the app. We’re not telling where. (Okay, one hint: old cheat codes still work.)

5.0🎧

Faster voice

Joining voice takes three fewer trips to the server, your voice goes first on a busy connection, and lost bits of sound are sent again instead of clicking.

5.0🐞

A bug page

Found something broken? Tell us on the bug page, see what we already know about, and press “Me too”.

New in Sonion Chat 3

Faster, smoother, and a lot more alive.

A new look, new places to find things, and an app that moves like it means it.

3.1

See who’s typing, everywhere

A little bubble on their picture, in your DM list and next to the channel. Even when that chat isn’t open.

NRNoor is typing…
3.1

Messages that fly in

Rise, zoom, swoosh or bounce. Or let Sonion Chat surprise you. Confetti when someone says congrats.

congrats!! 🎉
3.0

Inbox & Read all

Every mention in one place, and one button to clear all those red dots.

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Discover

Find servers to join. Owners sign up, the Sonion Chat team checks every one first.

3.0

Your layout

Server list on the left, right, top or bottom. Channels on either side. It’s your window.

3.0

Learn

Short lessons and a guided tour, right in the app. New here? Tap the cap at the top.

onions & Shop

Get rewarded for hanging out.

Chatting, being in voice with friends and coming by every day earns onions. Spend them on decorations, themes and sound packs.

  • Make your own decoration, theme or sound pack
  • Offer it in the shop and earn half of every sale
  • Being away doesn’t count, so it stays fair
LBubblesFREE
LHeadphonesFREE
LKelp crown150
LSparkles200
LLantern250
LStarry night300
Over 100 badges to collect

Show what you’ve done.

Your first message, a 30-day streak, hosting a party, finding a bug. Collect them all and get one more.

Bring your friends.

Make a server in seconds and send them an invite link.

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Features

Everything you need. Nothing behind a paywall.

Sonion Chat grows with every update. See what changed lately under Updates.

Servers & channels

Build a home for your group, your class or your community.

  • Text, voice, announcement, forum, media and stage channels, plus threads
  • Roles with colours and fine-grained permissions, categories you can rename and reorder
  • Invite links, server discovery, events and a welcome screen

Voice & video

  • Noise suppression, push to talk
  • Camera, DM and group calls
  • Soundboard

Go Live

  • Share a game, window or screen
  • Pick your quality: sharp text or smooth motion
  • Sound sharing on Windows

Messages

  • Markdown, replies, reactions, polls
  • Custom emoji and voice messages
  • Big files, pictures and videos, search

Make it yours

  • 10 palettes, your own background
  • Fonts, roundness, chat bubbles
  • Your own intro and sounds

Onions & Shop

  • Earn points by being active
  • Decorations, themes, sound packs
  • Sell what you make

Listening to

  • Show the song you’re playing
  • Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL and more
  • No account needed in the desktop app

Profiles

  • Banner, bio, pronouns, status
  • Avatar decorations and badges
  • Away mode with a night sky
  • See who’s typing from anywhere
Download

Sonion Chat on all your devices.

The apps keep you signed in, show notifications and start with your computer if you want. Or just use the browser.

Windows

Windows 10 and 11. Includes sharing your computer’s sound when you Go Live.

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macOS

For Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Open it once with right-click → Open the first time.

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Android

Android 8 and newer. Notifications, voice in the background and invite links that open the app.

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Windows 7 and 8

For older computers. Works the same, with fewer of the newest extras.

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iPhone & iPad

On its way. Until then, open Sonion Chat in Safari and choose Share → Add to Home Screen.

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In your browser

Nothing to install. Works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.

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BETA

Want the newest things first?

Sonion Chat Beta gets every change the moment it’s made, a few days before everyone else. Sometimes it has a bug: tell us with the bug button. It installs next to the normal app, so you can keep both.

Sonion Chat Beta for WindowsDownloading… Sonion Chat Beta for MacDownloading… Not sure? Take the normal one above.
Updates

What’s new in Sonion Chat.

Every update, straight from the Sonion Chat team.

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Safety & privacy

A friendly place, kept that way.

Moderation tools for every server, plus a Sonion Chat team that looks at every report.

Moderation built in

AutoMod, timeouts, kicks and bans, an audit log, and a report button on every message, profile and server.

No impersonation

Names of well-known creators, brands and Sonion Chat staff are protected. The real ones get a Verified badge.

Hosted in the EU

Your account lives on a server in Germany, under European privacy law. No ads, no selling your data.

Your data, your choice

Two-factor sign-in, download all your data, or delete your account any time from Settings.

You need to be 13 or older to use Sonion Chat. Read the terms and the privacy statement, or report abuse at [email protected].

Bugs

Found a bug? Tell us.

Every report is read by the Sonion Chat team. Known bugs are listed here, so you can see what we’re on and press “Me too” when it happens to you.

Known bugs

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