# Flotilla Chat — Decentralized communities

> Decentralized communities (iPhone/iPad app by Coracle Social LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flotilla-chat/id6741344107 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Coracle Social LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1793844924)
- Category: Social Networking
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 27 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-02-22
- Data updated: 2026-08-23
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flotilla-chat/id6741344107/reviews.md

## What is Flotilla Chat?

Engage with your community online, without giving up control.

- Protect your community from censorship and surveillance by self-hosting.
- Switch between forum-style threads, chat, and encrypted direct messages.
- Communities are fully configurable, down to what software your server is running.
- Engage with the wider nostr network by cross-posting between public and community spaces.
- Compatible third-party apps allow users to control their own experience.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.9.1 — 2026-08-19

* Re-work how claims work under the hood
* Fix storage and synchronization bugs
* And long-form articles
* Fix quote loading, rendering, and comments
* Add "create thread" from chat message
* Fix voice chat bugs
* Fix notification bugs
* Improve video tiling and chrome
* Add ability to send logs to developer
* Add theme selector
* Add native sharing registration

### 1.9.0 — 2026-07-30

* Fix nav safe are inset, qr code reactivity
* Performance optimizations for chat rooms
* Add room invite links
* Improve audio/video calls
* Bugfixes and UI refinements
* Fix push notification icon
* Swap datepicker implementations
* Fix popover clipping
* Add member directory page
* Add pinboards and content library
* Improve white-labeled support
* Add full profile page at /people/[npub]
* Add theming support, improve app design

### 1.8.2 — 2026-06-25

* Fix thread board styling
* Fix space joining errors

### 1.8.1 — 2026-06-24

* Add space dashboard and directory
* Add space roles
* Fix UI bugs
* Redesign threads as a linear phpBB-style forum view
* Unwrap messages that are only quotes
* Speed up feed loading
* Fix bunker login
* Replace zap slider with common amount pills
* Make join rejections due to an empty claim more forgiving
* Show voice room participants before joining
* Fix direct links to spaces
* Show per-relay publish status on outgoing messages
* Fix A/V call bugs
* Sync checked read state for cross-device badges
* Fix deleted rooms persisting in navigation
* Turn on notification defaults and prompt on first DM visit

### 1.8.0 — 2026-05-12

* Fix relay badge overflow
* Suppress programmatic scroll when user is scrolling
* Fix vertical alignment of emoji and overflow buttons in shared event action row
* Use type=email for signup/login email inputs, validate password
* Improve toggle switch placement on settings screens
* Fix relay auth privacy toggle
* Improve field layout
* Add progress bar to signup flow
* Bundle emojis properly
* Rework hosting page
* Fix padding on pages on small screens
* Add richer link preview support
* Fix pasting into event summary
* Publish fewer join/claim requests
* Fix new messages not rendering in safari
* Avoid capturing stale cleanup function in chat
* Hide keyboard on app resume
* Add email rendering support
* Fix bunker login
* Fix undefined chat draft key
* Allow sharing to chat without a message
* Make sure to show date on calendar events when embedded
* Improve space search

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