Taverns vs Haven

Taverns is a community and group chat app for gaming groups, guilds, clans, fandoms, roleplayers, creators, and friends. Create a Tavern, organize it into Halls, and give every conversation, call, event, and watch party a place of its own. Core community features are available without a subscription, including Stage watch parties and file uploads up to 2 GB. WATCH TOGETHER IN A STAGE • Start a synchronized watch party from a YouTube, TikTok, X, Vimeo, Twitch clip, or video-file link • Chat and react over the video, build an Up Next queue, and vote to skip CHAT, CALL, AND SHARE • Use text Halls, direct messages, group chats, threads, forums, announcements, and polls • Join voice and video calls and share your screen • Send files up to 2 GB each • Use up to 700 custom emoji and 1,000 stickers per Tavern, plus GIFs and reactions BUILD A PLACE THAT FEELS LIKE YOURS • Customize Tavern themes, backgrounds, colors, fonts, Hall icons, and profiles • Arrange Halls into categories and create public, private, or staff-only spaces • Discover public Taverns or build your own TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY OWNERS • Set roles and detailed permissions • Publish rules, plan events, manage invites, and moderate members • Keep fast chat and longer forum discussions organized SAFETY AND PRIVACY Report content or accounts, block people, choose who can contact you, manage friend requests, and control how sensitive content appears. Voice, video, and screen sharing are end-to-end encrypted when everyone is using a current Taverns app. A voice Hall is not encrypted while it is being restreamed to a third-party service. Taverns works with the same account on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, Linux, and the web. Support: https://tav.gg/support Privacy Policy: https://tav.gg/privacy Terms of Service: https://tav.gg/terms Community Guidelines: https://tav.gg/policies/community-guidelines

Haven is private chat for communities that run their own server. Your messages live on a box you control, not on someone else's cloud, and direct messages are end-to-end encrypted so even the server can't read them. END-TO-END ENCRYPTED • Direct messages and group DMs are encrypted on your device (ECDH P-256, HKDF-SHA256, AES-256-GCM) • Pictures and files in encrypted conversations are encrypted too • Group messages are signed, so you can tell who really sent them • Optional encrypted key backup restores your keys with your password CHAT THE WAY YOUR GROUP DOES • Text channels, private channels, DMs and group DMs • Threads, replies, quotes, reactions, custom emoji and stickers • Forums with topics and tags, polls, pinned messages and search • Pictures, video, files and GIFs • Markdown, tables, spoilers and code blocks • Official messages that make staff announcements stand out VOICE AND VIDEO • Drop-in voice channels • Video and screen sharing • Push notifications for mentions and DMs YOUR DATA, YOUR RULES • Delete your own messages, all of them or only those older than a day, a week, a month or a year • Auto-delete your messages after a set time • Export your data as one file • Block people, and see and sign out every device on your account MAKE IT YOURS Dozens of themes, icon packs, adjustable text size and accessibility settings. SELF-HOSTED AND OPEN Haven connects to Haven servers. Run your own on a home PC or a small server, or join a community that already has one. Save several servers and switch between them in a tap. TRY IT FIRST On the connect screen, tap Try the demo for a sample server that runs on your phone. No account needed. Haven is free, with no ads.