Shard
Free voice chat

Free voice chat for your group.

Create a server, send one link, and talk: voice channels you walk into, with cameras and screen sharing, in the browser. Nothing to install, and a first name is all anyone is asked.

Free. One of you creates it. The others join with a link and a first name.

A Shard server called Night Shift: its channels on the left, a conversation with reactions and a picture in the middle, who is online on the right.
The same conversation on a phone.

How a call works here

A voice channel is a room that stays open: walk in and you are talking with whoever is there, and the list shows who is in each one. Mute, deafen, push to talk, a volume for each person, noise suppression, a choice of microphone and speakers.

Calls pass through the server, so nobody in a call learns anybody's network address. A voice channel takes up to 50 people: that is a first limit, not a measured one.

A voice channel in a call: a screen shared by one person above the faces of the four people in it.

Hop into a call

A voice channel is a room. Walk in and talk, turn a camera on, share your screen: everyone in it watches together.

An invitation as a messaging app shows it: the name of the server and how many are in.

One link brings them in

Send the invitation where your group already talks. It shows your server; they open it, type a first name, and they are in. Nothing to install.

The same conversation on a phone.

On a phone too

The same link opens the same server in a phone's browser.

It is yours

  • Its own address

    Your server lives at the name you give it, at an address of its own.

  • You run it

    Whoever creates it is its admin: you let people in, and you show them out.

  • Nothing asked

    No ID, no age check, no phone number, no ads. A first name gets your friends in.

Why now: Discord estimates the age of accounts from how they behave, and says fewer than one in ten is then asked to prove it, with a selfie, a card or an ID, to reach what is meant for adults. Discord, 22 September 2026.

Said plainly

  • It is free

    Creating a server, inviting your group and calling cost nothing. No card is asked.

  • Who hosts it

    The servers created here are hosted by Solar Beam Studio, in Finland, in the European Union.

  • What the host can read

    Your messages are kept where the server is hosted, so your group can read them back. They are not encrypted end to end: whoever hosts a server can open what is written in it.

Three steps

  1. 1Name your server.
  2. 2Send the link to your group.
  3. 3They type a first name.