Armada: The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternative | Soapbox
$ now in open beta · v1.0 incoming_<br>Armada: encrypted,<br>open-source,<br>Discord alternative.<br>Servers, channels, threads, voice, and moderation: everything you expect from a chat app, fully end-to-end encrypted. Nobody can read your messages, and nobody can shut your community down.<br>Open ArmadaDownload on Zapstore<br>End-to-end encrypted<br>No central server<br>Free & open source
#general<br>Encrypted
Alex 09:42<br>new build is out — custom themes are live 🎨
Voice · 2 in call
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Everything you'd expect.<br>If you've used Discord, you already know how to use Armada.
🎮<br>🎸<br>📚
Team Soapbox<br>Text<br>general<br>design<br>memes<br>dev<br>Voice<br>hangout<br>Derek<br>Lemon
M. K.<br>online
general— plans, chaos, and everything else
Chad Today at 2:14 PM<br>movie night friday? I have the projector 🍿<br>🔥 34 replies
Alex Today at 2:15 PM<br>I'm in. Someone bring snacks
Morgan Today at 2:17 PM<br>snacks handled 🫡<br>🫡 2
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Online — 6
Alex
M. K.
Chad
Derek
Morgan
Lemon
Voice & screen shareThreadsReactions & custom emojiRoles & moderationDirect messagesEvents & RSVPsCtrl+K quick switcherMarkdown & code blocks
Nobody can read your chats, not even us.<br>Messages are locked on your device before they're sent. Here's the same conversation with the key, and without it.
You and your friends seekey holders<br>Chadsurprise party for Alex is a go 🎂
Derekhis place, saturday, 7pm
LemonI'll handle the cake 🤫
Everyone else seesrelays · ISPs · anyone<br>gMjNS0yIfK2yAmtKP0S5u72eqfWr+zjQ5wKrcALgwlQNbHlazbhOTgOa4z
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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.<br>Years of memories and friendships shouldn't live or die on one company's servers. Watch what happens when things go wrong:
A typical chat app1 company server<br>3 years of chat history in here 💜
best community on the internet
Armadarelay-1relay-2relay-3<br>anyone else seeing relay-2 down?
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.
you there?<br>no signal ✕
no signal ✕
Android · offline<br>Chat with zero internet<br>Phones nearby relay messages to each other over Bluetooth: at a festival, on a plane, in a blackout, or anywhere else the internet can't reach. Compatible with bitchat.
21:36▮▮▮ 82%<br>Chad · #general<br>now<br>movie night is ON 🍿
delivered without Google
Android<br>Notifications, no Google<br>Pings arrive straight from your community, even with the app closed. Google and third-party push services never learn who messages you.
Log in<br>nsec1•••••••••••••••<br>Unlock<br>emailphonesignup form
Your key is your account.<br>Your identity is a key that only you hold, with no email or phone number 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.
New · Armada v0.37<br>Works with Buzz communities.<br>Buzz, Block's open-source team communication app, only ships on desktop. Armada connects to the same workspaces from the web and Android: chat channels, threaded forums, the Projects workspace, and a mentions Inbox, right alongside your other communities and DMs.<br>Read the announcement
New · Discord bridge<br>Bridge your Discord server.<br>Connect a Discord server to an Armada community and every message and reaction flows both ways, names and avatars intact. Nobody has to move all at once.
general<br>Discord<br>Derek<br>is the Armada community actually live yet?
general<br>Armada<br>Derekvia Discord<br>is the Armada community actually live yet?
Connect your serverSet it up at bridge.armada.buzz in a few minutes: connect Discord, paste your Armada invite, confirm in-channel. A bridged channel is readable by the bridge to carry messages across, so use it for public community chat, not the rooms you keep end-to-end encrypted.
Optional · for teams<br>Or run the whole thing yourself.<br>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.<br>Channels, roles, moderation, and voice out of the box<br>Runs air-gapped on an internal network with no outside dependency<br>Standard Nostr (NIP-29) underneath: works with other clients too
armada/infra<br>$ ._
$ come say hi_
We're in there daily<br>Join the Soapbox community on Armada.<br>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...