$ private group chat on open infrastructure_
Discord without
the company.
Your keys. Your people.
Servers, channels, threads, voice, and moderation — everything you expect from a chat app, fully end-to-end encrypted. Nobody can read your messages, sell your data, or shut your community down.
#general
Alex 09:42
new build is out — custom themes are live 🎨
🎉 4
Chad 09:43
installing right now
Everything you'd expect.
If you've used Discord, you already know how to use Armada.
Text
Voice
DerekLemon
M. K.
online
Chad Today at 2:14 PM
movie night friday? I have the projector 🍿
Alex Today at 2:15 PM
I'm in. Someone bring snacks
Morgan Today at 2:17 PM
snacks handled 🫡
Derek Today at 2:18 PM
screen share works on my end, we can vote on the movie live
Online — 6
Nobody reads your chats.
Not even us.
Messages are locked on your device before they're sent. Here's the same conversation — with the key, and without it.
Who sent it, which community it belongs to, even the community's name — all sealed. Encryption follows the open Concord protocol, so anyone can verify it — or build their own client.
A community no one can take away.
Years of memories, memes, and friendships shouldn't live or die on one company's servers. Watch what happens when things go wrong:
Server suspended
This community was removed for violating our Terms of Service. All content has been deleted.
rerouted around the dead relay — nothing lost
There's no company account to ban and no headquarters to pressure. Your community lives on many independent relays at once — lose one, lose ten, and the conversation keeps going.
Things no other chat app can do.
Chat with zero internet
Phones nearby relay messages to each other over Bluetooth — at a festival, on a plane, or during a blackout. Compatible with bitchat.
Chad · #general
nowmovie night is ON 🍿
delivered without Google
Notifications, no Google
Pings arrive straight from your community — no Google, no third-party push service watching who messages you, even with the app closed.
Log in
No account. Just a key.
Your identity is a key only you hold — no email, no phone number, nothing to hand over. The same key works across every Nostr app.
Armada is early software — version 0.x, with new releases landing almost daily. Live today on web, Android, Linux, and Windows; no iOS app yet (the web app works there in the meantime). Follow the changelog.
Optional · for teams
Or run the whole thing yourself.
Communities are serverless by default — but if you want chat as internal infrastructure, Armada ships a complete open-source server stack. One command brings up the relay, voice server, and client on your own hardware.
- Channels, roles, moderation, and voice out of the box
- Runs air-gapped on an internal network — no outside dependency
- Standard Nostr (NIP-29) underneath: works with other clients too
$ ./start.sh
$ come say hi_
We're in there daily
Join the Soapbox community on Armada.
Team Soapbox hangs out in an end-to-end encrypted Armada community — product chat, dev talk, voice hangs, and early word on everything we ship. The invite link carries its unlock key in the URL fragment, so it never touches a server.
Free forever
Chat like nobody's watching.
Armada is open source, built by Team Soapbox, and free for everyone, everywhere — no company, no central server, no one to ask for permission.
Built by Team Soapbox · Open source on GitLab · Concord protocol specs