Talk, type, share your screen and send files to the people you actually play with. One of you runs the server, everyone else types the address. No accounts, no feed, and the app uses about 40 MB of memory.
baucord is a desktop app. Open this page on a Windows, macOS or Linux machine to download it.
Everything a group of friends needs to hang out, and nothing that needs an account.
Opus with voice activation, tuned for the shortest gap between a word and hearing it. One friend on hotel Wi-Fi doesn't touch anyone else's audio.
Everyone lands in the Lobby and splits off: a room for the game, one for the movie, an AFK corner. Passwords, limits, and channels you create yourself.
Your screen and its audio at 720p or 1080p, up to 60 fps. Viewers get a resizable window; a bad connection drops a moment of video, never the voices.
One room for the whole server, plus private conversations that wait for you when you're offline. History comes back when you reconnect.
Drop anything into the chat or a DM — pictures show inline, everything else is a card with a progress ring, cancel, and one click to save.
Guests, members, organizers, admins — and your own roles, each a named set of permissions with its own badge. Invites grant a role, no accounts anywhere.
Users, roles, restrictions, invites, channels, files and a readable audit log, in one window. Every action confirms first, and the same commands work from the chat.
The server keeps history, direct messages, files and profiles in a single SQLite file. Back it up with one command, restore it with another, or run it in memory and keep nothing.
Right-click anyone to adjust their volume or mute them. It's remembered for next time.
Mute, deafen, share and push to talk from any window. The keys keep working everywhere else.
Every connection is encrypted and your client pins the server's identity. Nothing goes anywhere but the server your friend runs.
About 40 MB of memory at idle. Closes to the tray and keeps the call going. No installer, no background services.
The whole interface, as it looks on a call.
The server is in the same zip as the app. Any machine your friends can reach will do: a spare PC, a small VPS, a homelab.
Unzip and start dedicated-server. It writes a
config file on first start; set a room password there and open
UDP port 5000.
The server prints an invite at startup: its address plus its identity. Send that to your friends however you like.
They paste the invite into baucord once, pick a nickname and connect. The server is remembered from then on.
Prefer containers? The repository includes a Dockerfile, a compose file and a setup script for a Linux host. Details are in the deployment guide.
Every zip contains the app and the dedicated server for that platform, so whoever hosts needs nothing extra.
| Platform | File | Size | |
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Free and open source. The app checks for updates on start and replaces itself in place; the server is updated by unzipping the new one over it. Older versions and checksums are on the releases page.