Comparison

Stoat - Find your community vs Discord - Group Chat That's All Fun & Games

Stoat - Find your community and Discord - Group Chat That's All Fun & Games both land on Depends.

Stoat - Find your community

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Take it if you want a free, open-source Discord-style chat for friends or hobby communities and accept a young, thinly-reviewed project.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it for gaming crews, friend groups, and hobby communities that want free voice, video, and text hangouts.

Stoat - Find your community versus Discord - Group Chat That's All Fun & Games
Compare	Stoat - Find your community	Discord - Group Chat That's All Fun & Games
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Friend groups	Gaming friend groups
Who it's not for	Businesses needing compliance, SLAs, or support contracts	Businesses needing searchable, auditable work chat
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹⁰	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹²
Support quality	No support evidence in sources	Account issues redirected away; no clear official support path
Public sentiment	Most buzz is forum discussion positioning Stoat as a Discord alternative; formal user reviews are very scarce.^⁶	Users love the casual hangout experience but complain about Windows 11 performance, tedious bulk message deletion, and community-only support.¹⁵
Biggest gotcha	20MB per-file upload cap; media-heavy communities will hit it quickly	Third-party client mods breach ToS and can expose accounts to malicious code¹⁴