tyto.chat
client.tyto.chat
A community channel with threads, reactions and sections
client.tyto.chat
A thread panel open beside the channel timeline
client.tyto.chat
Direct messages with unread badges
client.tyto.chat
Full-text search across a community

Your community's chat.
Yours to keep.

Open-source · self-hostable · MIT

Community chat you own.

Tyto is a free, open-source chat platform you run on your own server — channels, threads, voice, search, moderation, and built-in EU-compliance tooling. No seats, no tiers, no lock-in.

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Self-hosted — your data GDPR & DSA ready Free forever

Self-hosted & private

Runs on your infrastructure. Nothing phones home; every byte stays on your server.

Real-time & rich

Live messages, presence, typing, voice channels, threads, reactions and search.

Moderation & compliance

Roles, reports, appeals, retention and legal tooling — safety built in, not bolted on.

Free forever

The whole product under the MIT license. No paywalls, no feature gates, ever.

Everything you'd expect

A complete chat platform

Feature parity with the tools you know — without the subscription or the surveillance.

Messaging
  • Channels & sections
  • Threads — channels & DMs
  • Direct messages
  • Reactions — Unicode + custom emoji
  • Pins, edits & history
  • Permalinks & embeds
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Real-time
  • Live updates — SSE
  • Presence — online / away / DND
  • Typing indicators
  • Voice channels — LiveKit
  • Video & screen-share
  • Full-text search
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Community
  • Public & private servers
  • Invite-only communities
  • Roles & moderators
  • User groups
  • Per-channel access
  • Favorites & hidden
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Moderation
  • Warn / timeout / ban
  • Server-wide bans
  • Content reports — DSA
  • Statement of reasons
  • Appeals
  • Moderation log
  • Registration anti-spam — opt-in
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Notifications
  • Per-channel levels
  • Community mute
  • Desktop notifications
  • Web Push
  • Email digest
  • Smart coalescing
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Platform
  • 10-language i18n
  • Admin console
  • Webhooks
  • API keys — PATs
  • REST API — JSON-LD
  • GDPR export & erasure
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The promise

Always free. Always open.

MIT-licensedCore & client, source on GitHub. Fork it, audit it, ship it.
No paid tiersNo seat limits, no feature gates. The entire product, for everyone.
You own your dataSelf-hosted by design. Your server, your rules, your export.
Compliance includedGDPR & DSA tooling is built in — not a paid add-on.
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Why “Tyto”?

Named after the barn owl

Tyto is the barn owl's genus — in Scottish and Celtic lore the owl is the Cailleach's bird, a messenger between worlds that sees the hidden and hears the unspoken; a barn owl over the door was kept as a ward of good fortune. A fitting patron for a messenger that lives under your own roof.

See it live

Try the public instance

A Tyto server runs at client.tyto.chat. Jump in, or spin up your own in minutes with the quick start.

Open Community ↗Read the docs