Real-time screen sharing, group video, and voice chat.
Built on nuke-proof infrastructure that scales to millions.
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Everything your community needs to connect in real time — text, voice, video, screen sharing, and the richest bot ecosystem anywhere.
Share your screen in full HD with anyone in your group. Perfect for presentations, code reviews, watch parties, or troubleshooting together. Powered by LiveKit's enterprise-grade WebRTC stack.
Crystal-clear group video calls with adaptive bitrate, automatic speaker focus, and noise suppression. See everyone on a dynamic grid that scales from 2 to 25+ participants.
Drop-in, drop-out voice channels — just like being in the same room. Ultra-low latency audio with echo cancellation, per-user volume, and server-wide voice activity indicators.
Threaded conversations, reactions, @mentions, inline embeds, file sharing, and full Markdown support. Organized channels keep your community connected at any scale.
Run your existing Discord bots on Loqa with a single import change. Commands, slash commands, embeds, buttons, selects, modals, and cogs — all fully compatible.
Import your entire emoji library with full Lottie animation support. Animated stickers, custom emoji packs, and pack-level one-click migration from other platforms.
Translate any message instantly into your language. Loqa detects the source language and translates in-line — no copy-paste, no browser extensions. Your multilingual community just works.
Every voice note is automatically transcribed to text. Read what people said without listening, search voice content, and translate transcriptions in real time across languages.
Whether it's your bots, your emoji packs, or your community — migration is measured in seconds, not days.
Loqa mirrors the discord.py and discord.js API surface-for-surface. Change one import and your bot runs on Loqa. No refactoring. No rewriting. No surprises.
Import your entire emoji and sticker library in a single action. Loqa supports full Lottie animation playback — your animated emoji look and move exactly how they were designed.
Upload an entire emoji pack at once. Loqa auto-detects formats, preserves names, and organizes them into browsable collections.
Animated emoji rendered with the Lottie engine — smooth 60fps animations, tiny file sizes, and perfect quality at any resolution.
Import from Telegram, Discord-style packs, or any standard format. Static PNG, APNG, GIF, WebP, and Lottie TGS all supported.
Bring your entire Discord server structure to Loqa in seconds. Channels, roles, permissions, emoji, bans — everything lands exactly where it should. No JSON exports. No scripts. Just click.
All channels (text, voice, forums, stages), categories with nesting, roles with full permission bitmasks, and permission overwrites — all preserved exactly.
Custom emoji, server icon, and ban lists are automatically downloaded from Discord's CDN and re-uploaded. Animated GIFs stay animated.
Get a shareable invite link and a pre-written announcement to paste in your Discord server. Your community joins with one click.
Discord holds the kill switch to your community.
We built Loqa so no platform ever has that power over you again.
Discord can delete your entire server — years of history, conversations, and community — in seconds, with no appeal. Loqa is built so your community isn't at the mercy of opaque policies.
Coming soon — every server on Loqa will be fully exportable. Download your messages, media, roles, channels, and member list. Your community's history belongs to you — not us.
We comply with all applicable laws and regulations. We enforce clear, published community guidelines — consistently, transparently, and with advance notice whenever possible. No vague rules, no selective enforcement.
Your messages are yours. Your uploads are yours. When you decide to leave, you'll be able to take everything with you. Zero vendor lock-in — by design, not by accident.
"We've seen too many communities lose everything overnight — years of history deleted without warning.
Loqa exists because your community shouldn't live at someone else's mercy."
See how Loqa stacks up against Discord, Stoat/Revolt, and Telegram across the features that matter.
| Messaging | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group Chat / Channels | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Threaded Conversations | ✅ | ✅ | — | ◐ |
| Rich Embeds & Markdown | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Reactions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Animated Reactions | ✅ | 💰 | — | 💰 |
| Polls | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Ephemeral Messages | ✅ | ✅ | — | ◐ |
| Forums | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| File Sharing | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Categories | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | — |
| Channel Permissions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ |
| Real-Time Translation | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Mobile-Native App | planned | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Voice & Video | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| Group Voice Channels | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | ✅ |
| Group Video Chat | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| HD Screen Sharing | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| Always-On Voice Rooms | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ | — |
| Voice Notes | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Voice Transcription | ✅ | — | — | — |
| Voice Note Translation | ✅ | — | — | — |
| Bot Ecosystem | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| Custom Bots / API | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| discord.py Compatibility | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| discord.js Compatibility | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| Slash Commands | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Buttons & Interactive UI | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Customization & Media | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| Animated Emoji (Lottie) | ✅ | 💰 | — | ✅ |
| Custom Emoji Packs | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Animated Stickers | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| GIF Picker | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Server Roles & Permissions | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ◐ |
| Moderation & UX | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| Bulk Moderation (Ban/Mute) | ✅ | ✅ | — | ◐ |
| Unread Counts & @mentions | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Message Search & Jump | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Pin Jump | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| Server Discovery / Browse | ✅ | ✅ | — | ✅ |
| Consecutive Message Collapse | ✅ | ✅ | — | — |
| Privacy & Hosting | ||||
| Feature | Loqa | Discord | Stoat/Revolt | Telegram |
| No Telemetry / Tracking | ✅ | — | ◐ | ◐ |
| E2E Encryption (DMs) | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Disappearing Messages (DMs) | ✅ | — | — | ✅ |
| Open Source Client | — | — | ✅ | ✅ |
| Self-Hostable | ✅ | — | ✅ | — |
| Federated Instances | ✅ | — | — | — |
| Managed Cloud Hosting | ✅ | — | — | — |
What we're building next — including managed self-hosting on major infrastructure providers.
Your own Loqa instance on Hetzner or AWS. Fully managed by us — automatic updates, backups, and scaling. Isolation of self-hosting with zero DevOps overhead.
Maximum privacy on offshore infrastructure like Shinjiru. Enhanced data sovereignty, no logs, full jurisdictional separation.
Stay on the main Loqa platform with all its features while your managed instance mirrors messages, files, and channels in real time — a secure, always-current backup you fully control.
Deploy your own Loqa node and stay connected to the main network via our custom federation protocol — E2EE-preserving, Ed25519-signed, low-latency server-to-server communication.
Native iOS and Android with push notifications, background voice, and picture-in-picture video.
Native Windows, macOS, and Linux clients with system-level notifications, hardware-accelerated rendering, and deep OS integration.
Download your entire server — messages, media, roles, channels, and member list — in a portable format you can back up or migrate.
Deploy your own Loqa instance in minutes. Stay connected to the entire network through federation — your community, your rules, zero isolation.
Use the Loqa Platform Builder to customize your instance — branding, features, modules, and configuration. Point-and-click setup, no YAML wrangling.
The Platform Builder packages a production-ready Rust Docker image and pushes it directly to your VPS. One click from config to running instance.
Connect your instance to the Loqa network. Messages, channels, and presence will flow between your instance and the Loqa cloud via our federation protocol.
Loqa uses a custom federation protocol built for low-latency, E2EE-preserving server-to-server communication. Your self-hosted instance connects to the main Loqa network — messages, channels, and presence flow seamlessly between nodes with mutual TLS authentication and Ed25519-signed payloads.
No tracking, no telemetry, no data sales. Loqa is built from the ground up to respect your privacy — not monetize it.
Your DMs and group DMs are encrypted end-to-end using a Signal-style Double Ratchet protocol. Not even Loqa can read them — only the people in the conversation.
Email addresses are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and looked up via HMAC-SHA256 blind indexes — we can verify your identity without ever storing your email in plaintext. OAuth secrets are hashed with Argon2, and API tokens use SHA-256.
We don't track what you click, how long you linger, or where you browse. Zero analytics scripts, zero behavioral profiling, zero ad tech.
Set a timer and your DMs will vanish automatically. Messages are purged server-side — no ghost copies, no hidden archives.
Download your entire server — messages, media, roles, channels, and member list — at any time. Your community's data belongs to you, always.
Our backend is written entirely in Rust with memory safety guarantees. Smaller attack surface, no garbage collector pauses, no runtime surprises.
Run your own Loqa instance on your own hardware. Full data sovereignty with built-in federation back to the main network.
Everything you need to know about switching to Loqa from Discord, Revolt, Stoat, and other platforms.
Loqa is a free, privacy-first Discord alternative with real-time screen sharing, group video, voice channels, and a fully Discord-compatible API. Unlike Discord, Loqa offers end-to-end encrypted DMs, zero telemetry, planned full server data export, and a path to self-hosting — all with no vendor lock-in.
Yes — Loqa's API is designed for drop-in compatibility with Discord.py, Discord.js, and other Discord libraries. In most cases, migrating your bot requires changing just one line of code (the base URL). Slash commands, interactions, embeds, and webhooks all work the same way.
Unlike Revolt or Stoat, Loqa offers complete API parity with Discord, meaning your existing bots and integrations work out of the box. Loqa also provides real-time screen sharing, group video calls, voice channels powered by LiveKit, and is pursuing SOC 2 certification — features many alternatives lack.
Yes. Loqa is free to use with no paywalls on core features like screen sharing, voice channels, video chat, reactions, threads, and bot hosting. We believe communication tools should be accessible to every community.
Absolutely. Loqa provides high-quality, real-time screen sharing and group video chat powered by WebRTC via LiveKit.
Loqa is built with a self-hosting path in mind. Our upcoming Platform Builder will let you deploy your own Loqa instance with one click to AWS, GCP, or Hetzner. Loqa includes a built-in federation protocol so self-hosted instances can communicate with each other and the main network out of the box.
Loqa encrypts PII (like emails) at rest with AES-256-GCM. DMs and group DMs are end-to-end encrypted using a Signal-style Double Ratchet protocol — every message gets a unique key, providing forward secrecy and post-compromise security. We use zero third-party analytics or tracking. Passwords are hashed with Argon2id. Voice/video streams are never recorded or stored.
Coming soon. Loqa is building full server data export — messages, members, channels, roles, and media. You will always own your data and be able to take it with you. This is part of our nuke-proof philosophy: your community's data belongs to you, not to us.
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