Comparison

Stoat - Find your community vs Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities

Stoat - Find your community lands on Depends, and Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities lands on Worth it.

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.

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Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities

Worth it

Confidence: Medium

Strong free pick for gaming clans and Roblox groups that want chat, voice, calendars, and forums in one place.

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Stoat - Find your community versus Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Compare	Stoat - Find your community	Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities
Verdict	Depends	Worth it
Best for	Friend groups	Gaming clans and guilds
Who it's not for	Businesses needing compliance, SLAs, or support contracts	Workplace teams . gamer-first, no compliance story
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	No support evidence in sources
Public sentiment	Most buzz is forum discussion positioning Stoat as a Discord alternative; formal user reviews are very scarce.^⁶	Forum users treat Guilded as a workable Discord alternative, but a recent update and bot shutdowns frustrated parts of its base.¹⁶
Biggest gotcha	20MB per-file upload cap; media-heavy communities will hit it quickly	A 2024 'bad update' reshaped the product; bots and features vanished, angering longtime users.¹⁶

Pick Stoat - Find your community when

Friend groups
Hobbyist and gaming communities
Users avoiding Discord's ID checks
Self-hosting fans

When Stoat - Find your community is not a fit

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

Pick Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities when

Gaming clans and guilds
Roblox developer communities
Tabletop RPG groups needing scheduling
Communities replacing paid chat tools

When Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities is not a fit

Workplace teams . gamer-first, no compliance story
Communities whose members already live on Discord
Bot-heavy servers needing Discord's huge bot ecosystem
Guess: enterprises needing SSO, SLAs, or admin controls

Sources

Stoat - Find your community (official site)stoat.chat
official
Stoat on GitHubgithub.com
official
Stoat - Find Your Community - Google Playplay.google.com
official
AppBrain listing (free app, Revolt Platforms)appbrain.com
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Gizmodo download pagegizmodo.com
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Trustpilot reviewstrustpilot.com
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Zcash Community Forum threadforum.zcashcommunity.com
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NeoGAF Discord ID-check threadneogaf.com
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Gridinsoft domain checkgridinsoft.com
security
revolt.chat/securityrevolt.chat
security
Guilded - Chat for Gaming Communities (official site)guilded.gg
official
Guilded security pageguilded.gg
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Guilded on Y Combinatorycombinator.com
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What Is Guilded? Roblox's Newly Purchased Discord Alternativeesportstalk.com
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Guilded - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
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So, how is the user base 5 months since the bad update? (r/guilded)reddit.com
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