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.
Comparison
Stoat - Find your community vs Mumble
Stoat - Find your community and Mumble both land on Depends.
Mumble
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Choose it if you want free, low-latency voice you can self-host and someone technical can run the server.
| Compare | Stoat - Find your community | Mumble |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Friend groups | Self-hosters and privacy fans |
| Who it's not for | Businesses needing compliance, SLAs, or support contracts | Anyone wanting Discord-style chat, video, and screenshare |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.10 | Open source with a published security policy; two notable CVEs exist, both fixed in later releases.14 |
| Support quality | No support evidence in sources | No support evidence found |
| Public sentiment | Most buzz is forum discussion positioning Stoat as a Discord alternative; formal user reviews are very scarce.⁶ | Long-time users praise audio quality and low latency but consistently warn the setup and interface are not beginner-friendly.12 |
| Biggest gotcha | 20MB per-file upload cap; media-heavy communities will hit it quickly | Self-hosters must track updates themselves; unpatched versions had RCE risk14 |
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 Mumble when
- Self-hosters and privacy fans
- Competitive gamers needing low latency
- Linux and open-source communities
- Voice-only comms with a technical admin
When Mumble is not a fit
- Anyone wanting Discord-style chat, video, and screenshare
- Non-technical groups with nobody to run a server
- Businesses needing support SLAs or vendor accountability
- Casual friend groups . setup friction kills adoption
Sources
official
- Stoat on GitHubgithub.comofficial
- Stoat - Find Your Community - Google Playplay.google.comofficial
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