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Drag a file from a chat into another program, and keep notes, links and files for yourself in Notes to self. The game overlay goes wherever you put it in a game, a game's picture comes back after a song, and Sunroom's glass looks finished.

Bots' buttons, menus and forms work in the app, and slash commands suggest their options as you type. Watch a friend's stream from their card in Right now, and two devices in the same room pair by themselves. The emoji button sits beside GIFs and stickers, videos have a volume slider, and boards can hold code.

Boards have emoji stamps and an emoji gun, photos, notes and emoji can be turned, and the pen takes any colour. The soundboard has no cooldown.

On a board, your finger draws in any direction without sliding the lists in, and a swipe from the screen's left edge still takes you back.

Proximity chat works with the Mumble Link mods you already have, for Minecraft and Arma 3. On Android, pictures and videos no longer flash black when you come back to the app. On phones, windows can be swiped down to close, and the Reactions window fits the screen.

The app tells you when our Terms, Privacy Policy or Developer Terms change, 30 days before. The new versions apply from 13 December 2026.

A short card for under-18s on what their account starts with, how to block and report, and where to get help. Teens' local time starts off, and shows to friends only when they turn it on.

Clearer sign-up: each age group says plainly what it means, and the Privacy Policy is linked. Captions in calls start straight away on computers. Themes have Reset to default, and Find more in Discover. Windows notifications are simpler: who sent what, and a click opens the conversation.

Listen along: queue songs in a call and hear them together. The app dresses up for Halloween, the holidays, Easter and more, each with its own switch in Appearance. Your own photo as your camera background. Your own typing message. App icons: six of Grumble's own, or anyone's from Discover. Richer notifications: the sender's picture, Reply and Answer on computers; conversations, message text and full-screen calls on Android. The soundboard plays a sound at once or not at all, never late. Made cosmetics show straight away. Fixes: Accept request on one line, the / commands list stays open, no freeze coming back to the phone app.

Coming back to Grumble is smoother. Chats you had open stay on screen while they catch up, and a conversation opens with its messages already there, without a loading flash. Pictures no longer nudge the chat as they load.

Opening a server is about twice as quick, showing its newest messages straight away. Changing channels and opening pictures no longer stall on phones. Jumping to an older message from a reply lands on it instead of just past it. Tools on your own computer, like a coding agent, can now connect to Grumble without a client secret.

Encrypted videos play in the Android app, and the app no longer slows to a crawl while one is on screen. A lighter flick swipes between the chat and the lists. An update that finishes downloading while you're in another app installs as soon as you come back to Grumble.

Can't hear a call? In the call's menu, Check the sound shows each step of everyone's voice reaching you and where it stops, with two test sounds, and Send gives us what it found so we can fix it. Videos in messages have a slim play bar of their own instead of the big one. Changing tabs in Discover shows the new tab straight away, with its cards fading in together, and so does the Reactions window.

Tapping outside a window on a phone closes it without also tapping what's underneath, and dragging a text selection out of a window no longer closes it. The full profile closes when you click beside it. A reaction's tooltip stays on the screen. On phones, a field you're typing in stays above the bar for unsaved changes, and the emoji picker and profile sheets stay in view when the keyboard comes up. iPads get hold menus.

Updating the Android app now shows Grumble's own updating screen with a progress bar, and Windows updates show Grumble's icon with no stray Back button at the end. On phones, changing your profile picture or banner works again, the message box has a send button, and Android's back closes only the newest thing you opened. Servers, channels and roles can be put in order on a phone from their hold menu, the server list scrolls under your finger, and dialogs and the picture viewer stay clear of the status bar. Popups no longer twitch by a pixel as they finish opening. The first-run sharing question waits until you're not in the middle of something.

Signing up now asks you to turn a pug the right way up, which keeps bots out. Closing Settings on a phone no longer looks like it closes twice. Phones should stutter less in and after channels with TikToks in them. The Android app now keeps TikTok's tracking script out of shared TikToks, and the videos still play. When the app freezes, Diagnostics now records what was running.

The Android app from grumble.gg now updates itself. Tap Update and it downloads and installs the new version, with no APK to find. Coming back to the app reconnects at once, without the Reconnecting bar. The member list on a phone closes once.

No more whoosh when someone joins a call. AI noise suppression on computers is a stronger model that takes out keyboard clicks and sudden noises. Enhance my camera no longer blows faces out, or darkens a face in front of a window. Drag the bottom edge of a call above a DM to make it taller or shorter. Live captions in calls, worked out on your own device.

Sunroom is finished: Vista's glass over a moving sky, on every screen, in Settings and when signing in. Profiles, nameplates and name styles look the same in every skin and theme. No more whoosh when someone joins a call. Light themes read properly over nameplates and in code, and a theme's colour no longer fills every box. Link players load as they come on screen without stuttering. Long channel names, small windows and zoomed-in screens keep every button in the bar. Apply a store cosmetic to your bot, or pick one from Discover.

Replies, notifications and the phone's list of DMs show people, roles and channels by name, not as a string of numbers. React in a call: tap React beside the soundboard and your emoji floats up for everyone. Hold a reaction on a phone, or right-click it, to see who reacted. An unread DM's count sits on top of the person's picture in the server list. A server banner's corner stays rounded as you scroll.

Calls on the Android app keep their sound on the loudspeaker or a headset from the moment you join. A server's channel list scrolls smoothly on a phone, banner and all, and nameplates no longer slow the app down. Emoji match Twemoji again, so 🥺 has both eyes. A mention you pick in the message box shows as its name. A message that mentions you glows while it's new, then fades. Right-click the channel list for New channel, New category and Invite friends. Bots have their own settings and can wear a nameplate.

Downloads ask where to go: Save image and a file's Download open a Save dialog. A bot you made has Manage bot on its card and menu. A server's settings can add a Discord template's roles and channels (Add from Discord). A TikTok share link to a video that's gone says so instead of a play button that does nothing. An app's page in Bots and apps fits the window.

Twitch and YouTube in a browser show as watching on Twitch or YouTube, with a way to the channel, instead of a song in the browser. A bot's Add window closes once the bot's added, and says which server it went to.

A DM call rings, with a card to join or decline, and you can choose its sound. Click someone's activity in the member list to see what they're playing, with its picture, a way to it, and quick reactions or a message about it. Games show their own picture. Every emoji is the same set everywhere. Forum channels look like forums, and an invite link shows just its invite. Calls now use 128-bit encryption keys, LiveKit's standard, so bots can talk in them: update to this version on every device, since calls between this and older versions have no audio.

Choose every sound you hear: the message sound, everywhere or for one server or DM, and each call sound, from Grumble's own, none, or any soundboard sound. Pick a join sound that everyone in a voice channel hears as you join. What you're playing now says where it plays, Spotify or the site in your browser, with its album cover and a link there, and you can turn sharing on or off for each service. TikTok share links play in the desktop app. An unread DM is counted once.

A DM shows the other person's nameplate when you hover it, and has a video call button. People slide between Online and Offline in a server's member list. Your call panel has the soundboard, and on a phone mute and deafen too. A new server can have an icon from the start, animated GIFs included. What someone is playing or listening to now links to where it is. Calls recover when someone's keys arrive late, so nobody is left unable to hear. Logging out removes this device's DM key. Profile cards and Discover lists open without jumping, and Sunroom frames pictures in their sender's bubble colour.

Apps on this computer, like stream decks, overlays and your own tools, can connect to Grumble the way they connect to Discord. Grumble asks you first and says what each one could do, and Settings, Authorised apps lists them so you can remove one at any time. Sunroom is sharper: Lato, a calm pale aqua background, crisp glass bubbles with a clear outline, and cut-out server tiles. Avatar decorations are no longer cut off at the edge of the member list.

Names in two colours (Gradient, Prism, Gummy, and a role's two colours) keep their colours over a nameplate, where the nameplate's shadow had turned them dark.

Your own themes and cosmetics have Edit, Hide and Delete wherever they show, Discover included. Names, rings and profile effects that move are smooth on phones now. Sunroom is plain blue gloss, with glass window buttons in the desktop app, round profile rings and glossy rounded-square servers, and its lime ring is a decoration you can wear, the Aqua ring. Scrolling lists no longer shift when their scroll bar shows. A TikTok post that can't be played says so, with its link, and TikTok photo posts play too.

Search in Settings finds settings inside each page now, not only page names. Searching "update" brings up the Desktop app page, and "microphone" brings up Sound and video.

Sunroom is now set in aqua water, with soap bubbles, sparkles and a streak of light behind the conversation. Messages are jelly glass, see-through gel with a shine on top, and your own are lime. Names over nameplates are easier to read.

Sunroom gets more of its aqua look: glossier bars and buttons, speech bubbles that point at whoever's talking, glossy status dots and its own typeface. Two people in one call from the same room: Grumble notices, and one mic carries them both. On Windows, installing and updating shows Grumble's own window with a progress bar.

Skins: Sunroom, sky blue and glass, with glossy round buttons and speech bubbles. Pick it in Settings, Skins, and any theme colours it. X posts get a card with their pictures or video, and YouTube Shorts play upright. Soundboard sounds play on Android in a call.

The safety team is told when there's something to look at, with a count on Settings and the app's icon. The taskbar's unread count clears when you've read. Updating the desktop app shows its progress from the moment you click (from the next update on).

On Android, calls play on the loudspeaker (or your headphones or Bluetooth) instead of the earpiece, with a button in the call to choose, and a call carries on when you put the app away, with a notification to get back or leave. The keyboard slides over the chat and then makes room, as in Discord. Turn on your local time in Profile so friends abroad see it. TikTok links play in the message, players show without a card around them and stay loaded when you come back to a chat, and links to pictures, GIFs, Wikipedia, GitHub, Steam and events get rich cards. Wear your own nameplates and decorations straight away. On a phone, a bar takes you back to your call.

On phones the keyboard no longer pushes the app far above it, and opening it is smooth again. Emotes show as pictures in the message box, and server descriptions can have emotes. A message you send slides in once. Settings has a Connection page that shows whether a problem is your internet or Grumble, with a link to the status page. Add friends in person with a QR code, and invites can show one too.

Voice channels have their own chat beside the call. Watching a Twitch channel together shows Twitch's chat beside it, and you can sign in to Twitch inside Grumble, so mature channels play and you can write in their chat. Scroll bars only show while you scroll. On some phones the screen jumped far above the keyboard: fixed.

Calls: a much lighter noise filter, so far less delay, and a volume check in your call panel that shows what the others get from your microphone. Links to sites that turn away anything but a browser (drop.cobrand.com, say) get their title and picture. YouTube and Twitch players show in the message, in wider cards. Pick your own talking colour in your profile. Staff can turn on diagnostics and send a problem straight to Claude.

Spotify and Beatport links play in their messages, and SoundCloud's player shows in the message once you've said yes to SoundCloud. A message that's only a link shows just its card, and right-clicking a link or card offers Copy link and Open link. Messages are spaced as in Discord, with an even hover around each and nothing moving under the mouse. A report update is a bar across the top rather than covering the buttons there.

Pinned messages list the channel you're in, and nothing says "encrypted" in place of a message or file any more. Threads in DMs: start one from a message or the + menu. Every link in a message gets its preview, so a YouTube link after another link shows its title and picture. The inbox and pinned messages fill in at once rather than growing, and a channel's messages arrive at their full size. Forwarding an encrypted picture sends the picture. Forums work in encrypted servers, and New channel can make one. A message's hover reaches the next one.

Twitch plays in watch together on Windows and Android. Pictures and files open in older versions of the app again. Right-click a picture to save it, and Download buttons work on Android. Drag files into the Windows app to send them. Big videos show their picture on a computer. Text no longer shifts a pixel under the mouse. Polls in encrypted servers show their words, and YouTube, Twitch and SoundCloud links show their title and picture. The version number is in Settings and About, and updates appear by themselves.

Messages from people who aren't your friends wait in Message requests until you accept them. Servers can set rules to accept, a welcome screen, and questions that give you roles when you join. Links get a preview, made on your device and sent inside the encrypted message. Share photos, videos and links to Grumble from other apps, and reply straight from a notification. Log in on a new device by scanning its QR code with your phone, and your DMs come with you. A video sent as a file plays as a video, and big pictures and videos show with a play button instead of a locked card. Stage channels have speakers and an audience who can raise a hand. Announcement channels can be followed from other servers. Switch between accounts from the status menu. Compact messages, chat text size and streamer mode are in Settings. Emoji uploads no longer stall, and copies are left out.

Videos show a frame straight away and play as you watch, skipping ahead without downloading the rest. The app opens where you left it, each server remembers its channel, chats you've opened show their latest messages at once, and pictures and files you've opened don't download again (kept encrypted on your device, cleared when you log out or in Settings, Advanced). The microphone and speaker lists show your devices' names the first time. The app is a little lighter all round.

Closing the member list on a phone no longer flashes the dim back. Notices and short messages appear at the top instead of over the message box. On phones, things you could only reach with a mouse are there to tap: saving a GIF, removing an attachment, a friend's buttons, deleting emotes and stickers, revoking invites, removing roles. Switches and small buttons are bigger, the call buttons fit the screen, and the words say tap and hold. Profiles have room between their sections, Add friend and server members fit a phone, and the audit log reads in plain words. Escape closes search results.

With the keyboard up on Android, windows, sheets, Settings, the emoji picker and toasts end where the keyboard starts instead of sitting under it, so Search's box is always in sight. A server's banner has room under it before Search. A window's title stays clear of its close button, and hints about keyboard keys no longer show on phones.

Back on Android closes whatever is open first (a menu, a sheet, a panel), then shows your lists, instead of jumping to the last page. Tapping Messages or a server in the rail shows its list, and the app opens on your conversations. Discover's tabs scroll sideways on a phone. No stray gap in a server's channel list, and your status no longer covers your name in the panel. Menus, windows, sheets and panels now animate away when they close instead of vanishing, and the report banner no longer covers a phone's hold menu.

On Android the message box sits right on the keyboard again, with no gap. Double-tap a message to react; a single tap no longer reacts by accident. Only one video or voice message plays at a time. A little phone shows by people who are only on their phone (turn yours off in Settings, What you share). Discover is new: categories across the top, Picked for you, games to play in calls, colour themes for the whole app, and cosmetics people made. Make your own theme in Settings, Appearance.

Encrypted DMs sent before 18 October open again. The keyboard on Android no longer covers the message box, and notifications show the Grumble pug. Direct Messages shows what was last said in every conversation, with friends who are online in a row across the top. Find public servers and apps under Discover, the compass on the left. Start an activity in a call for everyone to join. An arrow takes you back to the newest messages when you've scrolled up, and bars and banners now slide in and out. New servers can start from a set of channels, and servers can share a template or show a widget on a website.

Pick several photos and videos at once from a gallery in the + menu on Android. On a phone, someone's profile opens in full, with Message, Call and Add friend, and tabs you can swipe between. New members get a welcome line and a button to wave hello. The member list glides in and out, and offline members keep their name banners.

Swipe a message left to reply, and swipe left anywhere else in a server for the member list. The emoji picker and profiles open half way up and pull up to full height. Phones buzz on a long press, a reaction and a reply swipe. A spinner while older messages load, loading rows that line up with the messages, banners that fade in, and a bigger back arrow. Coming back to the app no longer flashes Reconnecting.

Smoother on phones: the chat slides off the lists and back under your finger and carries on when you let go, menus drag down to close, icons and text are a better size, and the Friends tabs fit. Taps no longer flash, presses give a little and spring back, and icons that change pop into place. The message box says Message @name, and the NEW line fades once you've seen what's new.

A new look on phones: the lists are their own screen and follow your finger when you swipe, conversations show what was last said and when, servers have a search bar with invite and events, and the message box has a round + beside it. The Android app now tells you when there's a new version.

Encrypted messages open again: a message a device can't read no longer spins on Decrypting and holds up sending. On phones, sheets close when you tap outside them, Photos and videos opens your gallery, and server icons are bigger. A lower title bar.

Grumble for Linux and Android, alongside Windows. A soundboard, films to watch together, notifications on Android, and notifications that still arrive with the window hidden.

A lighter look.

A new look of Grumble's own.

Sent messages can no longer get stuck greyed out.

Updates install without Windows' installer window popping up.

Nameplates move all the time.

A volume slider for each person's screen share.

Opening encrypted DMs and channels no longer holds the app up.

No more browser bar announcing that you're sharing your screen.

The new logo, calls without a browser microphone prompt, and nothing left behind from the browser engine.

Add Grumble to OBS with one click, and links to other sites open in your browser.

A safer way of signing in, the new name, and streaming with OBS.