# Osmium

> Osmium is a free community chat app with real-time messaging, voice and video channels, screen sharing, roles and permissions, custom emojis, open APIs, regional data storage, and no ads or tracking.

## Canonical pages

- Home: https://osmium.chat/
- Feature inventory: https://osmium.chat/features/
- Downloads: https://osmium.chat/download/
- Privacy policy: https://osmium.chat/privacy/
- Terms of service: https://osmium.chat/terms/
- Blog: https://osmium.chat/blog/
- RSS feed: https://osmium.chat/blog/rss.xml
- GitHub: https://github.com/osmiumchat

## Feature inventory

See what Osmium can do today and what we are building next, from fast chat and voice to roles, customization, privacy, and open APIs.

## Communication
- Voice and video chat
- Direct messages and group chats
- Screen sharing and audio sharing on all platforms
- Music presence
- Markdown messages
- Message reactions
- Link previews
- Advanced search
- Game presence
- Polls

## Communities
- Hierarchical role-based permissions
- Private roles
- Custom nicknames
- Community discovery
- Announcement channels
- Audit logs
- Advanced moderation tools
- Raid protection
- Mass delete protection
- Forums (Planned)
- Web previews (Planned)

## Customization
- Custom emojis
- Animated emojis
- Profile customization
- Custom statuses
- Animated avatars
- Shareable themes and layouts
- Stickers
- Per-community profiles

## Moderation tools
- Channel-specific permissions
- Temporary bans
- Slowmode
- Moderator reports
- Timeouts and warnings
- Ban appeals
- Moderator comments

## Developer and platform features
- Open protocol for bots and clients
- OAuth
- Webhooks
- Slash commands
- Per-message name and avatar cloaking
- Voice plugin system
- 3D positional audio controls
- Embedded widgets and activities

## Privacy and security
- Regional data storage
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- Independent infrastructure
- No tracking or fingerprinting
- No AI message scanning
- Device management
- Passkeys (Planned)
- Granular sharing settings (Planned)
- End-to-end encrypted chats (Planned)