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Should I Use Stoat - Find your community?
Stoat is the chat app for friends and communities that finally works the way you always wished it would.
Depends
DependsTake it if you want a free, open-source Discord-style chat for friends or hobby communities and accept a young, thinly-reviewed project.
Free open-source Discord alternative for hobby communities. Too young and thin on reviews for business use.
Confidence: Medium
$0
Starting price
free to download, no paid tiers found
Yes
Free tier
whole product is free
20MB
File upload limit
per-file cap
Value for money
5
Completely free and open source
Feature depth
3
Servers, text, voice, emojis; lighter than Discord
Security posture
2
No published security page found
Pros
Cons
Gotchas
- medium20MB per-file upload cap; media-heavy communities will hit it quickly
- mediumNo published security page; vetting posture means reading the source yourself10
- mediumGuess: young open-source project means community-only support, no SLAs or paid support²
- lowis a new domain; some security scanners flag it until reputation builds⁹
Best for
- Friend groups
- Hobbyist and gaming communities
- Users avoiding Discord's ID checks
- Self-hosting fans
Not for
- Businesses needing compliance, SLAs, or support contracts
- Large communities dependent on Discord's bot ecosystem
- Teams needing guaranteed uptime and vendor accountability
- Media-heavy servers; 20MB upload cap bites fast
Pricing
Free
$0
- Full chat, servers, voice and text channels
- Custom emojis, 20MB upload limit
- Open-source clients and self-hosting
Security
No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
What users say
Most buzz is forum discussion positioning Stoat as a Discord alternative; formal user reviews are very scarce.
“Stoat.chat: alternative to Discord”
“You can create communities, too, but there is no feature allowing users”
Alternatives
Compare Stoat - Find your community with each alternative.
Discord
The default; biggest ecosystem and bots, now with ID checks
Element (Matrix)
Open-source federated chat with end-to-end encryption options
Stoat - Find your community vs Element (Matrix)Guilded
Discord-style with more built-in features for gaming groups
Mumble
Lightweight self-hosted voice chat for LAN parties
Stoat - Find your community vs MumbleFull analysis
Based on ~14 public sources; formal reviews are scarce (4 Trustpilot reviewers), so most evidence is official pages and forum discussion.
Sources
official
- Stoat on GitHubgithub.comofficial
- Stoat - Find Your Community - Google Playplay.google.comofficial
- AppBrain listing (free app, Revolt Platforms)appbrain.comreview
- Gizmodo download pagegizmodo.comnews
- Trustpilot reviewstrustpilot.comreview
- Zcash Community Forum threadforum.zcashcommunity.comreview
- NeoGAF Discord ID-check threadneogaf.comnews
- Gridinsoft domain checkgridinsoft.comsecurity
- revolt.chat/securityrevolt.chatsecurity
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