Open Beta
Free Your Group Chat.
Switch from Discord.
Real-time screen sharing, group video, and voice chat.
Built on E2EE Federated nuke-proof infrastructure that scales to millions.
📺 HD Screen Sharing
🎥 Group Video
🎙️ Group Audio
💬 Servers, Categories, and Channels
🎤 Voice Notes
🔐 E2E Encrypted DMs
Open Beta Status
What's Live Right Now
Loqa is in open beta. Here's a transparent look at what's working today and what we're actively building.
21 Features Live
7 In Progress
28 Total Tracked
💬 Text Channels, Categories & Permissions ✓
🎙️ Voice Channels (WebRTC via LiveKit) ✓
🎥 Video Chat & Screen Sharing ✓
📩 Direct Messages & Group DMs ✓
📝 Rich Embeds, Markdown & File Sharing ✓
🎭 Reactions, Animated Emoji & Stickers ✓
🧵 Threaded Conversations & Forums ✓
🛡️ Roles, Permissions & Moderation Tools ✓
🔍 Server Discovery & Invite Links ✓
🌐 Real-Time Message Translation ✓
🎤 Voice Notes & Transcription ✓
📌 Message Search, Pinning & Unread Counts ✓
🔐 E2E Encrypted DMs ✓
📊 Polls & Scheduled Events ✓
🎨 Dark & Light Themes ✓
🎧 HD Voice (Simulcast, VP9, Noise Suppression) ✓
⌨️ Typing Indicators ✓
👥 Friend Requests & Friend List ✓
🟢 Presence & User Activity (Heartbeat) ✓
💾 Settings Persistence ✓
📧 Email Verification ✓
🤖 Bot Ecosystem (discord.py & discord.js)
🔊 Soundboard
🔑 Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
🔗 Social Media Account Connections
📹 Video File Uploads
📱 Native mobile apps (iOS / Android)
🖥️ Native desktop apps (Win / Mac / Linux)
Updated February 2026 · View full feature parity breakdown →
The Complete Platform
Text, voice, video, screen sharing, and bot support — the core stuff your community actually needs.
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Screen Sharing
Share your screen in full HD inside any voice channel. Runs on LiveKit's WebRTC stack — same tech used by production video apps.
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Group Video
Video calls with noise suppression and automatic speaker focus. Grid layout handles 2 to 25+ people without falling apart.
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Voice Channels
Drop-in, drop-out voice rooms. Low-latency audio with echo cancellation and per-user volume controls.
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Text Channels
Threads, reactions, @mentions, embeds, file uploads, and Markdown. Channels and categories keep conversations organized.
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Bot Compatibility
Loqa's API mirrors Discord's, so most discord.py and discord.js bots work with a one-line import change. Slash commands, buttons, modals, and cogs are all supported.
🎭
Emoji & Stickers
Import emoji and sticker packs from Telegram, Discord, or standard formats. Full Lottie animation support — animated emoji play back at 60fps.
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Built-In Translation
Translate messages inline without leaving the app. Self-hosted TranslateGemma detects the source language and handles the rest.
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Voice Transcription
Voice notes get transcribed to text automatically via Faster-Whisper. You can read, search, and translate them just like regular messages.
Migrating from Another Platform
Switch to Loqa. Keep Everything.
Bring your bots, emoji packs, and server structure over from Discord without starting from scratch.
Python — 277+ API surfaces tested
JavaScript — 334+ API surfaces tested
✓ Commands ✓ Slash Commands ✓ Embeds ✓ Buttons ✓ Selects ✓ Modals ✓ Cogs ✓ Views ✓ Tasks ✓ Intents
📦
Pack-Level Import
Upload an entire pack at once. Loqa detects the format, keeps the names, and organizes them into a browsable collection.
✨
Full Lottie Animations
Animated emoji run at 60fps via the Lottie engine. Small file sizes and resolution-independent rendering.
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Cross-Platform Compatibility
Import from Telegram, Discord-style packs, or any standard format. Static PNG, APNG, GIF, WebP, and Lottie TGS all supported.
Complete Structure
Text, voice, forum, and stage channels with categories. Roles with full permission bitmasks and permission overwrites are all preserved.
Assets Included
Custom emoji, server icon, and ban lists are downloaded from Discord's CDN and re-uploaded automatically. Animated GIFs stay animated.
Ready-to-Share
After import, you get a shareable invite link and a draft announcement to post in your Discord server.
Why We Exist
Fundamentally Different.
Discord holds the kill switch to your community.
Loqa is built so that's not possible.
🛡️
Your Server, Your Call
Discord can delete your server without warning or appeal — years of conversations, gone. Loqa is designed so that doesn't happen to you.
📦
Server Export (Coming Soon)
We're building full server export — messages, media, roles, channels, and member list. If you want to leave, you take your data with you.
⚖️
Clear, Published Rules
We enforce published community guidelines — consistently and transparently. No vague rules, no selective enforcement, no surprises.
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No Lock-In
Your messages and uploads belong to you. When we ship server export, you'll be able to take everything with you if you decide to leave.
We started building Loqa after watching communities lose everything overnight — no warning, no recourse. Your community shouldn't exist at someone else's mercy.
How We Compare
Feature Comparison Across Platforms
See how Loqa stacks up against Discord, Stoat/Revolt, and Telegram across the features that matter.
| Messaging | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group Chat / Channels | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Threaded Conversations | ✅ | ✅ | — | ◐ |
| Rich Embeds & Markdown | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Reactions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Animated Reactions | ✅ | 💰 | — | 💰 |
| Polls | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Ephemeral Messages | ✅ | ✅ | — | ◐ |
| Forums | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| File Sharing | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Categories | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | — |
| Channel Permissions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ |
| Real-Time Translation | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Mobile-Native App | planned | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Voice & Video | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| Group Voice Channels | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ✅ |
| Group Video Chat | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| HD Screen Sharing | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| Always-On Voice Rooms | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | — |
| Voice Notes | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Voice Transcription | ✅ | — | — | — |
| Voice Note Translation | ✅ | — | — | — |
| Bot Ecosystem | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| Custom Bots / API | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| discord.py Compatibility | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| discord.js Compatibility | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| Slash Commands | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Buttons & Interactive UI | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Customization & Media | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| Animated Emoji (Lottie) | ✅ | 💰 | — | ✅ |
| Custom Emoji Packs | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Animated Stickers | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| GIF Picker | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Server Roles & Permissions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ |
| Moderation & UX | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| Bulk Moderation (Ban/Mute) | ✅ | ✅ | — | ◐ |
| Unread Counts & @mentions | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Message Search & Jump | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Pin Jump | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| Server Discovery / Browse | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Consecutive Message Collapse | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| Privacy & Hosting | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| No Telemetry / Tracking | ✅ | — | ◐ | ◐ |
| E2E Encryption (DMs) | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Disappearing Messages (DMs) | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Open Source Client | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
| Self-Hostable | ✅ | — | ✅ | — |
| Federated Instances | ✅ | — | — | — |
| Managed Cloud Hosting | ✅ | — | — | — |
✅ Supported ◐ Partial 💰 Paid Only 🔜 Coming Soon — Not Available
Upcoming Features
Road Map
What we're building next — including managed self-hosting on major infrastructure providers.
🏢
Managed Self-Hosting — Scalable Tier
Hetzner / AWS
Your own Loqa instance on Hetzner or AWS, managed by us. We handle updates, backups, and scaling so you don't need DevOps.
🔒
Managed Self-Hosting — Private Tier
Shinjiru
Offshore infrastructure (e.g. Shinjiru) for maximum data sovereignty and jurisdictional separation.
🪞
Live Mirroring to Self-Hosted
Exploring
Stay on the main platform while a managed instance mirrors your messages, files, and channels in real time as a backup you control.
🌐
Federation Protocol
Shipped
Deploy your own Loqa node and connect to the main network via Ed25519-signed, E2EE-preserving server-to-server communication.
📱
Native Mobile Apps
In Development
iOS and Android apps with push notifications, background voice, and picture-in-picture video.
🖥️
Native Desktop Apps
In Development
Windows, macOS, and Linux clients with system notifications and hardware-accelerated rendering.
📦
Full Server Data Export
Planned
Download your server — messages, media, roles, channels, and member list — in a portable format.
Live
Self-Host Without Being an Island.
Deploy your own Loqa instance in minutes. Stay connected to the entire network through federation — your community, your rules, zero isolation.
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🛠️
Build
Use the Loqa Platform Builder to customize your instance — branding, features, modules, and configuration. Point-and-click setup, no YAML wrangling.
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Deploy
The Platform Builder packages a production-ready Rust Docker image and pushes it directly to your VPS. One click from config to running instance.
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Federate
Connect your instance to the Loqa network. Messages, channels, and presence will flow between your instance and the Loqa cloud via our federation protocol.
⚡
Federation Protocol
Loqa uses a custom federation protocol built for low-latency, E2EE-preserving server-to-server communication. Your self-hosted instance connects to the main Loqa network — messages, channels, and presence flow seamlessly between nodes with mutual TLS authentication and Ed25519-signed payloads.
Full Data SovereigntyZero DevOpsFederated MessagingShared User DirectoryLoqa Protocol
🔒 Privacy First
Your Data. Your Rules.
No tracking, no telemetry, no data sales. Here's specifically how we handle your information.
🚫 Zero Telemetry & Tracking
🔐 E2EE Encrypted DMs
🛡️ AES-256 PII Encrypted at Rest
🛑 0 Third-Party Data Sales
🔐
End-to-End Encrypted DMs
DMs and group DMs are encrypted using the MLS protocol (via OpenMLS). Messages are encrypted on your device before they leave — the server never sees plaintext.
🛡️
Encrypted PII
Emails are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and looked up via HMAC-SHA256 blind indexes. We can verify your identity without storing your email in plaintext. Passwords are Argon2-hashed.
🚫
No Telemetry
No analytics scripts, no behavioral tracking, no ad tech. We don't collect data about how you use the app.
💨
Disappearing Messages
Set a timer on DM conversations. Messages are deleted server-side when the timer expires — no ghost copies.
📦
Server Export soon
Download your entire server — messages, media, roles, channels, member list — in a portable format. Your data, not ours.
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Rust Backend
The backend is written in Rust with memory safety guarantees. Smaller attack surface, no garbage collector, predictable performance.
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Self-Hosting
Run Loqa on your own hardware. Full data sovereignty, with built-in federation to connect back to the main network if you want.
FAQ
Frequently Asked
Common questions about Loqa and switching from Discord.
What is Loqa and how is it different from Discord?
Loqa is a free chat platform with screen sharing, group video, voice channels, and a Discord-compatible API. The main differences: end-to-end encrypted DMs, zero telemetry, and a self-hosting option. It's in open beta — not a finished product yet, but the core features work.
Can I migrate my Discord bot to Loqa?
In most cases, yes. Loqa's API mirrors discord.py and discord.js, so changing one import line is usually enough. Slash commands, interactions, embeds, and webhooks work the same way. Some edge cases may need tweaks — check the API docs for specifics.
How does Loqa compare to Revolt, Stoat, and other alternatives?
The main difference is API compatibility — Loqa mirrors Discord's API surface, so existing bots work without rewriting. Loqa also has screen sharing, group video, and voice channels via LiveKit, which most alternatives don't. The comparison table on the landing page has the full breakdown.
Is Loqa really free?
Yes. Screen sharing, voice channels, video chat, reactions, threads, and bot support are all free with no paywall. We plan to offer optional premium tiers for things like managed self-hosting, but core communication features will stay free.
Does Loqa support screen sharing and video chat?
Yes — both are live and working. Screen sharing and video run through LiveKit (WebRTC) and work in any voice channel.
Is Loqa open source or self-hostable?
Loqa supports self-hosting today. We're also building managed hosting options for people who don't want to run their own infrastructure. The federation protocol lets self-hosted instances talk to each other and to the main network.
How does Loqa protect my privacy?
Emails are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and looked up via blind indexes — never stored in plaintext. DMs are end-to-end encrypted via OpenMLS. Passwords use Argon2. There are no analytics scripts or tracking of any kind. Voice and video streams are not recorded.
Can I export my Loqa server data?
Not yet, but we're building it. Full server export — messages, members, channels, roles, and media — is on the roadmap. The goal is that you always own your data and can take it with you.
Ready to Make the Switch?
Create a free account, migrate your bots with one import change, and bring your emoji packs along.