Osmium Chat vs Daccord
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Osmium Chat
Experience fast, reliable, and private messaging with a global server network. This app offers a free, public API for developers and is independently owned with a privacy-first approach, ensuring no ads or data harvesting.
- Fast global messaging
- Reliable on unstable connections
- Private data infrastructure
- Free public API for developers
- No ads or data harvesting
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FAST - Built on a network of servers distributed around the world to keep messaging and voice fast anywhere. OPEN - Free, public API lets developers build custom bots, integrations, and clients without restrictions. RELIABLE - Built to deliver your messages even on slow or unstable connections. PRIVATE - Your data is stored in your region in our custom-build private infrastructure. INDEPENDENT - Privately owned and privacy first - no ads, no data harvesting, just messaging.
Daccord
An open-source chat and voice application offering real-time messaging, voice, video, and screen sharing. Users can connect to their own servers for complete data control and privacy, with no ads or tracking.
- Real-time messaging
- Multi-server support
- Voice, video, and screen sharing
- Custom emoji support
- Native cross-platform apps
- Self-hosted server option
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Daccord is the free, open-source alternative to Discord — chat, voice, and video with native apps you control. Connect to your own server, not someone else's cloud. No ads. No tracking. No corporate lock-in. Your server, your data, your rules. FEATURES • Real-time messaging — send, edit, delete, and reply across channels and direct messages, with updates that feel alive. • Multi-server — connect to many Daccord servers at once and switch between them seamlessly. Your work crew and your gaming crew, side by side. • Voice, video & screen sharing — crystal-clear calls powered by LiveKit/WebRTC, with camera and screen share built right in. • Emoji — full unicode support plus custom server emoji, all behind a slick built-in picker. • Native on every platform — lightweight, fast, and built with Flutter, with a responsive UI that adapts from phone to desktop. SELF-HOSTED BY DESIGN Don't just join a server — run your own and keep full control of your data, accounts, and voice traffic. Nothing passes through us. Daccord is GPLv3-licensed and community-driven, with nothing locked behind a paywall. Note: Daccord is in early development. Things move fast and you may hit rough edges — we'd love your help filing them down.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Daccord at 5.0 against Osmium Chat's 4.0. Daccord also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). Osmium Chat's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Daccord holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmium Chat has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Osmium Chat ships an update every 2 weeks, Daccord every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Osmium Chat | Daccord |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | +12 | 17+ |
| Developer | Uncollapse | Jacob Cattrall |
Customer experience
Osmium Chat
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In-app purchases
Osmium Chat
No in-app purchases
Daccord
No in-app purchases









