Actually yours
Yappa is built around self-hosted servers, so your community is not trapped inside someone else’s platform rules, pricing, or outages.
Open source • self-hosted • gamer-first
Own your community.
Keep the vibe.
Yappa is the self-hosted chat platform built to replace the bloated, closed-off experience people settled for. Run your own node, keep control of your space, and bring people together with fast text chat, voice decks, video calls, and screen sharing.
Text chat
Voice chat
Video
Screen share
Self-hosted nodes
Why Yappa?
The better solution for communities that want control.
Yappa keeps the parts people actually love about modern chat apps, then cuts out the lock-in. You host the server node, you own the community, and you decide what the experience becomes next.
Built by gamers
Fast channels, clean voice decks, real-time presence, and screen sharing designed with the feel of a modern gaming client instead of corporate software.
Open source from the start
Inspect it, improve it, fork it, deploy it. Yappa is meant to be transparent and community-driven rather than boxed in.
One place for everything
Text, voice, video, and screen sharing all live together in one coherent experience, with room to grow into way more.
Designed to be sleek
Dark, focused, and made to feel good.
The Yappa visual identity leans into deep blacks, rich reds, and warm highlights so it feels more like a gaming platform than a boring dashboard.
- Dark red brand palette inspired by default.
- Responsive layout for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
- Updates on a weekly basis.
- Completely customizable and easy-to-use.
100%
Open source
Self-hosted
Server-first model
Voice + Video
Built into the platform
Gamers first
But ready for more
Downloads
Grab the client for your platform.
One clean download bubble, all three platforms, and a native build selector that stays on the same page. Yappa will preselect the platform you are browsing from, but you can swap between Windows, macOS, and Linux anytime.
Platform detected
Download Yappa
Choose the build you want below. Yappa will highlight the one that fits your device best.
Windows
Selected build
Ready to build your own space?
Run Yappa your way.
Deploy your own node, customize the project, and help shape an open alternative that feels like it was made for real communities.