Everything Venoly does
This is the full list of what the app does: voice rooms, threads, a Home made of what you pin, themes, animated profiles, server backups, appeals a person reviews, the marketplace and built-in games. The tours below are the app itself; the catalogue is under them. Almost all of it is free.
The shape you know
Servers, channels and roles, ready the moment a server exists. The fragment on the right is the app itself, built from the same parts — type into it.
Voice rooms that stay
Walk into a room and start talking. No scheduling, no link to share: the room is there all day, and who is in it is listed where everyone can see. Push-to-talk and noise suppression are in the same panel. A DM call sits above the conversation, so you keep typing while you talk, and stays connected while you move around Venoly.
Lounge3 in the room
Threads that fold away
A thread is one line under its message until you open it, so the channel stays readable while a side conversation runs. Open it, answer, and it folds back.
Reactions and polls
Any emoji, several per message. A poll inside a message, in server channels. Pinned messages per channel, markdown and code blocks, link previews, GIFs, voice clips, and pictures up to 10 MB each on Free, 95 MB on Supernova.
Five header actions
The channel header carries at most five actions. Everything else a channel can do — predictions, trivia, watch together, the canvas, the time-machine replay, a focus room, a listening party, giveaways — sits in one menu, the same on every screen size.
generalLate-night chat and the weekly art contest
Thirty-one themes
From AMOLED black to Cupertino light, and a full custom palette when none of them is yours. A picture, GIF or video behind the app, the font, size, zoom, chat density and reduced motion are yours to set as well, and a server can carry a theme of its own.
Theme
Three steps in
- Create an account. An email address and a password, no card. We send one verification email; confirm it and you are in. That one step is why servers here are not overrun by bot accounts.
- Make or join a server. Start a server for your friends, your raid party or your fandom, or paste an invite link. A general channel and the default roles are ready immediately; add voice rooms and more channels in a tap.
- Invite your people. Share a link. They join, you talk. Any channel can be muted from its menu.
The full catalogue
Every feature, by category. Paid extras say so; everything else is free.
Your Home
- Pinned conversations and channels at the top of Home, with their unread counts
- Pins saved to your account, so they follow you to every device
- Favorite servers, starred on Home or from the server list
- Upcoming events across your servers, with an Interested toggle
- Unread threads you follow; Follow or Unfollow at the top of any thread
- Drafts — every message you started and did not send, in one list
Profile and identity
- Animated avatars (GIF, APNG, WebP)
- Animated banners, framed the way you choose
- Profile effects, from Sparkles and Aurora to Storm and Holographic
- Custom profile themes
- A showcase of up to 6 posts and projects on your profile
- See your profile the way a friend, a server member or anyone else sees it
- Verified websites on your profile, proved by a DNS record or a file
- Badges, each with its own drawing
- Custom emoji status with text
- Statuses — Online, Idle, Busy, Away, Do Not Disturb, Invisible — told apart by shape as well as colour
- Away notices with an end time, and status schedules that switch on by themselves
- Display name and a global handle
- 31 built-in app themes (Dark, Midnight, AMOLED, Sunset, Forest, Ocean, Rose, Cyberpunk, Dracula, Nord, Catppuccin, Cupertino and more)
- A full custom theme palette — every colour you want
- A connected Discord account
Servers and community
- Unlimited servers, unlimited members
- Text channels, voice channels, forum channels
- Threads with a collapsible main feed
- Roles, permissions and per-channel overrides
- Drag channels and categories to arrange them
- Channel icons, name colours, longer descriptions and temporary channels
- Server emoji slots (50 free)
- Server stickers
- Server badges you make and give to members (they grant no permissions)
- Server themes — colours, font and background, optionally the one everyone sees there
- Server nicknames, set by the owner or anyone with Manage Nicknames
- Reaction roles
- Webhooks, OAuth apps and slash commands
- Server welcome screen and an onboarding builder with a live preview
- Server invites with analytics
- Server insights dashboard
- Decisions — binding polls and proposals
- Events, with an Interested toggle
- Soundboard
- A tickets system for support
- Server discovery (an opt-in public listing)
- Server verification badges
Voice, video and screen share
- Voice rooms — always on, no link sharing
- DM voice and video calls that sit above the conversation and stay connected while you move around
- Camera and screen share in DM calls
- Camera and screen share in server voice channels, for roles the server gives the Video / Stream permission
- Spatial rooms — a map you click to walk around in while you talk; distance sets how loud each person is, from full volume up close to silence further away
- Push-to-talk and a voice activity indicator
- Noise suppression
- Voice and video settings — microphone, speakers, camera, a mic test and your own push-to-talk key
- Soundboard playback
Messaging
- Markdown formatting, code blocks and embeds
- Reactions (any emoji, several per message)
- One-click message actions and up to three one-click reactions, in your order
- Polls inside messages in server channels
- Pinned messages per channel
- Message search (channel and server)
- Editing, deletion and bulk delete
- Forwarding across channels
- Audio messages (voice clips)
- Link previews, which you can hide on your own message
- GIFs from GIPHY and KLIPY, and memes from Imgflip templates
- Pictures (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP), up to five at once — 10 MB each on Free, up to 95 MB on Supernova
- A full-screen viewer for pictures; voice clips play inline
- @mentions, highlighted and tappable
- Replies that show who you are answering, and a way back after jumping to one
- Translate a message before you send it
- Disappearing DMs (1 hour to 1 week) and messages set to delete themselves
- DM folders
- Mark as unread, in channels and DMs
- Reminders
- Bookmarks (saved messages)
Discovery
- Server discovery — Featured, Gaming, Music, Tech, Art, Education, Social
- Marketplace — themes, emoji packs, stickers, server templates, soundboards, bot apps, AI personas
- Signed marketplace releases you can check before installing, and verified creators
- Policy marketplace — browse moderation policies; activation is reviewed by Venoly
- Custom policy submissions
- Art gallery — a curated collection of artwork to browse
Games
- A Games page — Home → Games, or Ctrl+G
- Ascendant, an action-roguelite across four realms, solo or in real-time co-op
- Seasons and server-vs-server leaderboards for Ascendant
- Server Empire, a management game: grow a bedroom server into an infrastructure company
- Trivia rounds inside a channel
- A games library in the desktop app only: free games by independent developers, downloaded when you choose to play — Animdustry, Black Stamp (Windows), Echoes in Red, Liminality, and Ash Hollow (played from its author’s site)
Moderation and appeals
- Slow mode (a per-channel cooldown), which can skip the roles you choose
- Auto-moderation — block, warn or mute on patterns
- Content filters — text, link and pattern rules, per server and platform-wide
- Audit logs — the full server action trail
- Member management — ban, kick, mute, role assignment
- Raid protection — join-velocity detection and an owner lockdown switch
- Raid Radar — report raiders and share raid signals with other servers that opt in
- Verification levels — None, Low, Medium, High (Highest works like High for now)
- Copilot — AI moderation recommendations
- Venilator policy VM — 8 enforcing security policies
- Appeals inside Venoly — a suspension, termination, posting limit or warning from the Venoly team, within 6 months
- Appeal from Settings → Account standing, or at venoly.nl/appeal with a code sent to your email if you cannot sign in
- A person reviews every appeal; one appeal per decision; the outcome and reasons by email and in the app
- Server bans and warnings are appealed to that server’s moderators, in Server Settings → Appeals, which a server can switch off
Privacy and safety
- Two-factor authentication (TOTP) with backup codes
- Vault encryption for sensitive data at rest
- Per-user rate limiting and Watchguard automatic attacker blocking
- Device recognition by a hashed device fingerprint; the raw canvas, WebGL and hardware signals only with your consent
- Captcha on sensitive actions
- File scanning with ClamAV
- A session list with remote sign-out, and sign-out of devices idle for 7, 30 or 90 days
- Block users and report content
- Privacy controls — who can DM you, call you, add you to group chats and see your servers in common, and your online status
- A DM greeting shown at the top of new conversations with you
- Account deletion, purged within 30 days (device identifiers are kept up to 2 years so a ban cannot be dodged)
- No third-party trackers
- Hosted in the Netherlands
Accessibility and customisation
- Reduced-motion mode (system and manual)
- Animation speed, colour saturation, reduce transparency and colour-blind mode
- Fonts — Venoly Sans, your device’s font, Inter, Lexend, Atkinson Hyperlegible, Merriweather, Minecraft, VT323 and more
- Font size (12px–20px)
- UI zoom (80% to 125%)
- Chat density (cozy or compact)
- High-contrast mode
- A picture, GIF or video behind the app, and background music that plays only on your device
- Name plates in many colours, and message colours that blend two or three
- Smooth mode (Settings → Performance), off by default
Server-owner tools
- Server analytics — member activity, peak hours, message volume (free)
- Custom welcome screen and onboarding builder (free)
- Auto-mod rules engine (free)
- Audit logs (free)
- Bulk message management and channel templates (free)
- Change up to 50 channels at once — move, slow mode, lock, delete (free)
- Backups and history — snapshots by hand or daily or weekly, restore, and cloning into a new server (free)
- Scheduled maintenance windows and scheduled announcements (free)
- Boosts — included with Aurora and Supernova, pooled by the members of a server
- Boost level 1 (2 boosts): 100 emoji slots, a server banner, an invite background and 128 kbps voice audio
- Boost level 2 (7): 150 emoji slots and 256 kbps voice audio
- Boost level 3 (14): 250 emoji slots, a vanity invite link and 384 kbps voice audio
Apps
- Android app — download it from venoly.nl/download; not on Google Play yet
- Desktop app for Windows and Linux, a direct download
- No iOS or macOS app yet, and no date promised
- Push notifications
- Real-time sync across devices
- Safe-area awareness on notched devices
- All questions — a searchable page of answers about accounts, privacy, servers, calls and plans
