Features
Everything. For everyone.
Grumble has no paid tier. What other chat apps sell as a monthly subscription comes with Grumble, for everyone, from the day you sign up.
No subscription
What others charge for, Grumble just has.
Everything here is free on Grumble, for everyone. There's nothing to subscribe to and nothing to buy.
Your profile
- Animated avatar
- Upload a GIF and it moves.
- Profile banner
- A picture across the top of your profile, animated ones too.
- Profile theme
- Two colours for your whole profile card. Pick them, shuffle them or mix your own.
- A profile per server
- A different avatar, banner and bio in each server, as well as a nickname.
- Name styles
- 8 fonts and 8 effects for your display name, from neon to prism.
Chat and calls
- Emoji anywhere
- Any server's emoji, animated ones too, in every server and DM, plus 500 personal emotes of your own.
- Stickers and sounds anywhere
- A server's stickers and soundboard sounds work in your other servers too.
- Bigger files
- Up to 100 MB a file, and up to 15 files to a message (500 MB in all).
- Longer messages
- 4,000 characters, and anything longer goes as a text file.
- 1080p screen share at 60 fps
- Clear text for code and slides, or smooth motion for games.
Your servers
- 384 kbps voice
- Set any voice channel to the highest voice quality, on any server.
- Animated icon and banner
- A moving server icon, a banner, and a background for your invites.
- Your own invite link
- An invite link with a name you choose, instead of random letters.
- Role icons and gradients
- An icon or emoji beside a role, and role colours that fade from one to another.
- Room for everything
- 2,000 emoji and 500 stickers in every server.
Cosmetics, free
Nameplates
8 animated scenes behind your name in member lists, in any colours you like.
Avatar decorations
8 frames for your avatar, from an ember ring to cat ears, some of them animated.
Profile effects
10 effects over your profile card, like snow, embers and shooting stars.
On Discord, as we understand it in October 2026, these come with Nitro, server boosts or a purchase from its Shop. Discord can change what it charges for at any time. Discord and Nitro are trademarks of Discord Inc., and Grumble isn't connected to Discord.
Chat
Say it however you like.
Formatting and code
Markdown, big emoji, spoilers, and code blocks with highlighting and a copy button.
Replies, threads and pins
Reply to anything, take a side conversation into a thread, pin what matters, and forward a message on.
Polls
Ask the room, with up to 10 answers, open for as long as a month.
Voice messages
Too much to type? Record it instead, and it plays right in the chat.
Search
Filter by who, where, when and what a message has. Encrypted chats are searched on your own device.
Never lose your place
Your mentions in one Inbox, a draft kept for every channel, and Ctrl+K to jump anywhere.
Voice and video
Hang out like you're in the room.
Drop-in voice
Join a voice channel and you're talking, with nobody to ring. Call friends and groups from your DMs too.
Every call encrypted
Voice, video and screen share are end-to-end encrypted, with a security code you can compare.
Clear sound
AI noise suppression runs on your device, at Natural, Balanced or Strong, and you can turn anyone up to 200%.
Look good on camera
Brighten a dim room, smooth out grain or blur your background, all before your video is encrypted.
Watch together
YouTube, Twitch, SoundCloud, video links, or your own Plex or Jellyfin, in step for the whole call.
Soundboard
Play a sound for everyone in the call. Grumble has a few of its own, and each server can add more, up to 5.2 seconds each.
Go live with friends
Put people from your call into OBS, each a source of their own, once they've said yes. Grumble for OBS
Servers and moderation
Run your community your way.
Roles and permissions
Roles with every permission, overrides for each channel, categories, and folders for your server list.
AutoMod
Block words, wildcards or patterns, then alert your mods or time the sender out, automatically.
Moderation tools
Timeouts, kicks and bans, up to 200 people at once, with an audit log of who did what.
Events
Plan game night with an event people can say they're coming to.
Keep things calm
Welcome messages, slowmode, an AFK channel, and a wait before new members can post.
In voice too
Mute, deafen, move or disconnect people, and set a status on each voice channel.
Privacy and security
Yours, and nobody else's.
Encrypted end to end
DMs, group chats, calls and servers, down to channel and role names. Only the people in them hold the keys.
Your password stays with you
It never leaves your device, not even when you log in, so it can't leak from our servers.
Two-factor
An authenticator app and backup codes, and a list of your devices to sign out of.
Keys that follow you
12 recovery words and a locked backup, so your DMs come with you to a new device.
No tracking
No ads, no data brokers, and no logs of your IP address. Visits are counted only as daily totals.
Your data, your call
Download what we hold about you, or delete your account, whenever you like.
Apps and more
Wherever your pack is.
On every screen
Windows, Linux and Android, or any up-to-date browser. macOS is on the way, and iPhone is coming to the App Store. Downloads
Made for gaming
In the desktop app, push-to-talk, mute and deafen keys that work mid-game, and what you're playing on your profile, once you turn that on.
Bots and apps
Build bots with a Discord-compatible API and the libraries you already know. Developers
Moving from Discord
Bring your profile and settings, copy a server's channels and roles from a template link, and bring your emoji. How moving works
Safety built in
Report anything, hide words you never want to see, block people, and keep age-restricted channels opt-in. Safety
Accessible
Screen reader labels throughout, alt text on images, keyboard shortcuts, and less motion when your device asks for it.