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.

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Refund Policy

Last updated: June 2, 2026

All sales are final and non-refundable.

Because Spokes is a self-hosted platform and our software licenses are issued as standalone cryptographic keys, licenses cannot be "returned" or retroactively deactivated once they have been delivered to you.

We strongly encourage all customers to thoroughly evaluate the software prior to making a purchase. You can download, install, and run your own fully-featured server instance indefinitely without a license. The only restriction of this evaluation mode is that you cannot install future software updates. Please utilize this self-hosted evaluation period to ensure Spokes meets your requirements before buying a license.