Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Discord
The 20 closest Voice and text chat alternatives to Discord, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Discord? The closest matches are WhatsApp, telegram.org and Viber. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Discord
Discord discordapp.com
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Summary by Claude
Discord is a free voice, video and text chat service where users join or create servers and group chats, stream games and screens, and build online communities across PC, mobile and consoles.
- Who it’s for
- Gamers, friend groups and online communities
- Business model
- Subscriptions (Nitro) and in-app purchases
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Discord’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Discord
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Discord, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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WhatsApp | Secure and Reliable Free Private Messaging and Calling
Use WhatsApp Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.
Very close cos 0.901 - 02 Very close cos 0.895
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Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
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Twitch
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.
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Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
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Tango Live - Live Stream & Video Chat
Tango is your free video chat and live streaming platform to meet new people, stream live, and connect in real time, anytime. Join now and start chatting.
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tawk.to - Free Live Chat Software for Your Website
One free inbox for all your customer channels. Live chat, ticketing, knowledge base, AI assist, and CRM — all in one place. Trusted by 6M+ businesses.
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Live Chat Software with AI by Text | LiveChat.com
Text is live chat software for your website with an AI Agent that answers 24/7. Qualify leads and track sales from chats. Start your free 14-day trial.
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Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
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American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
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Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
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Tinder | Dating, Make Friends & Meet New People
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
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LINE|always at your side.
More than just a messenger app. LINE is new level of communication and the very infrastructure of your life.
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zeta
The No.1 AI chat! Over 13 hours of weekly use — and it’s free. Not using zeta yet? Everyone else is!
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Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools
Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
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One platform to connect | Zoom
Modernize workflows with Zoom's trusted collaboration tools: including video meetings, Zoom Chat, VoIP phone, webinars, whiteboard, contact center, and events.
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Grindr: The World’s Largest Social Networking App for LGBTQ People.
Grindr is the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Download Grindr today to discover, connect to, and explore the queer world around you.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to discordapp.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Discord uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Discord is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Website builders
- Webflow page source: data-wf-page=
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=1d56fec5a0f745dabfbe48592806853324fe50a8d4448c10e…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd1f5de562b4-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gabe.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-sign-verification=d19200aacd69c1b8e10cd1a5b47c91c3
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=xPWro2NHlvCQs7LI
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=JNe2Ze7P8p623k8f7xRaHDyQWb6VzLxjFga1tu8…
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=66jnk5y945ew
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ihjYpERVTt6QLWL2IBBLsEZroHPjP3vVQHQG97oXZlI
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:sendg…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=wmXS8pleSDJ3LgREcHasvMfdkHmBbUvNI6nHNnJl
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Discord adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Atlassian 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on discordapp.com 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on discordapp.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on discordapp.com 7/20
- OneTrust 7/20
- Stripe 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Zendesk 6/20
- Apple Business 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on discordapp.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on discordapp.com 5/20
- HubSpot 4/20
- Zoom · not on discordapp.com 4/20
- Cloudflare 4/20