If you’ve ever been in a clutch moment — defusing, mid-teamfight, calling out a rotation — you know that voice quality isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s the difference between winning and losing.

And yet, the tools we use to communicate haven’t kept up.

The problem with what exists

Discord revolutionized gaming communication. But under the hood, it’s an Electron app — a web browser pretending to be a desktop app. That means higher memory usage, higher latency, and a platform that prioritizes social features over the raw communication quality that gamers need. Your text messages aren’t end-to-end encrypted. Discord can read them.

TeamSpeak proved that self-hosted, low-latency voice is possible. But the UI feels like 2010, the feature set is limited, and the ecosystem hasn’t kept up with modern expectations for text chat, moderation, and community building.

We wanted something that combines the best of both worlds — and compromises on neither.

What Voidcom does differently

Native performance. The server is written in Rust. The desktop client is built with Flutter. No Electron. No Node.js. This isn’t a web app wrapped in a browser — it’s a real native application with real native performance.

End-to-end encrypted — voice and text. Your messages and voice calls are encrypted before they leave your device using XChaCha20-Poly1305 with X25519 key exchange. The server never sees your plaintext data. Discord encrypts voice but not text. TeamSpeak offers optional encryption. Voidcom encrypts everything by default.

20ms voice latency. Our voice transport runs on QUIC — the same protocol that powers HTTP/3. Combined with the Opus codec at 48kHz, we deliver crystal-clear audio with latency as low as 20ms. That’s 5x faster than Discord.

Everything you expect. Servers, channels, roles, permissions, moderation, direct messages, friend lists, typing indicators, reactions, replies, mentions, full-text search, and file sharing. We’re not cutting features to be different — we’re building all of it, just better.

Free during beta

Voidcom is currently in beta. Every feature is free, with no limits. We’re building in the open and we want your feedback.

After launch, we’ll move to a freemium model — the core communication experience will always be free. Premium features will be cosmetic and convenience-focused, never pay-to-communicate.

What’s next

We’re actively working on Linux and Android clients, video improvements, and scaling our infrastructure. Check out our roadmap for the full picture.

If you want to try Voidcom today, download it here. It’s free, it’s fast, and it’s built for people who care about how they communicate.