Spokes is currently in Early Access!

As an early access, you may encounter occasional bugs as features are actively being worked on. Spokes is developed as a one-person operation. If you find value in this software, consider buying a license to support its continuous development.

Last year I became a father and, more generally, children have been appearing in my friend group at an alarming rate. We are all a bit uneasy about posting family pictures to Discord, Messenger, etc... We want to preserve our children's privacy as much as possible. I started developing Spokes after trying all the other self-hosted options to replace Discord and finding that none of them perfectly matched what we needed. We settled on Matrix / Element, but have never been completely satisfied. So here comes Spokes to fix that.

The goal of Spokes is to replace Discord for friend groups and families. Here's a few of the base features that Spokes supports today:

Public chat channels for all members of the server.
Completely self-hosted Voice / Video channels.
Private encrypted channels.

Get Spokes

Download the mobile apps or deploy the server to your own infrastructure.

Spokes Server

Deploy the entire Spokes platform via Docker in a few minutes.

docker pull ghcr.io/pcbeeqc/spokes:latest

Read Deployment Guide

Mobile Apps

Connect to your self-hosted server on the go with our native iOS and Android apps.

App Store Google Play

The iOS app is currently in development. You can request to be added to TestFlight by messaging [email protected].

Web & Desktop

Access Spokes instantly from any modern web browser at your server's url, or install it as a native desktop application via PWA.

Learn About PWA

Native App Stores

Deploy Spokes instantly with a single click using our official integrations with popular homelab and NAS platforms.