Discord Client Encyclopedia
June 12, 2026 · View on GitHub
A non-exhaustive collection of third-party clients and mods for Discord.
Table of Contents
- Discord Client Encyclopedia
Mobile
Android Clients & Mods
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discord Android | Official Android client | [Closed source] | 🟢 Active |
| VendroidEnhanced | A fork of Vencord/Vendroid that improves upon the original project. |   | 🟢 Active |
| Vendroid | Vencord for Android! A WebView embedding the Discord site, loading Vencord and adding some goodies. |  | 🟢 Active |
| Kettu | A Discord mobile app client modification continuing Bunny's mission |  | 🟢 Active |
| Voxi | A Discord mobile app client, fork of Revenge Classic with additional features | | 🟢 Active |
| ShiggyCord | Shiggy your Discord! Fork of Kettu. Faster, refreshed, and with additional features. | | 🟢 Active |
| Revenge | A fork of Bunny | | 🟢 Active |
| Aliucord | A mod for the Android Discord app. | | 🔵 Active (Legacy App1) |
| Rain | A Discord mod for mobile written from the ground up by the creators of Kettu | | 🔵 Active (In beta) |
| Unbound | Cross-platform client modification for discord on mobile. | | 🔵 (still in development state) |
| Revenge Next | A Discord mod for Android! | | 🔵 (still in development state) |
| ReCord | A work-in-progress Discord mod, inspired by mods such as Bunny and Revenge, aimed at being lightweight and user friendly. | | 🔵 (still in development state) |
| Wintry | Make your Discord cooler, literally | | 🔴 Broken |
| Lumi | A Fork of Wintry aiming to deliver a Vencord like experience on android! | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Bunny | A mod for Discord's mobile apps, fork of Vendetta. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Vendetta | A Discord mod that is compatible with Android and iOS! | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| CutTheCord | Modular Client Mod for Discord's Android app. |  | 🔴 Discontinued |
| OpenCord | An open-source implementation of the Discord Android app | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Treecord | A modded Discord client for Android! |  | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Bluecord | Modded client mod for Android | [Closed source] | ⛔ Malware (scams and spying)2 |
iOS Clients & Mods
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discord iOS | Official iOS client | [Closed source] | 🟢 Active |
| Kettu | A Discord mobile app client modification continuing Bunny's mission | | 🟢 Active |
| Rain | A Discord mod for mobile written from the ground up by the creators of Kettu | | 🔵 Active (In beta) |
| Stossycord | Stossycord is a Discord Client Native to iOS Devices. It is made in 100% Swift and SwiftUI for Privacy, Responsiveness and Security |  | 🟠🔵 Active (In a very early beta) |
| Unbound | Cross-platform client modification for discord on mobile. | | 🔵 (still in development state) |
| BTLoader | Provides builds of Kettu (a fork of Bunny) for iOS, but will utilise Rain once it is fully released. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Revenge | Revenge is a fork of Bunny | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Bunny | A mod for Discord's mobile apps, fork of Vendetta. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Vendetta | A Discord mod that is compatible with Android and iOS! | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Enmity | The power of addons, all in your hand. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Discord Classic | A bare-bones Discord client for iOS 5 and 6. |  | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Discord Classic (continuation) | Discord client for Legacy iOS with enhanced UI and additional features. Based off the original Discord Classic. | | ⛔ Active. May get account banned. |
Desktop
Official Clients
| Name | Link | Infos |
|---|---|---|
| Discord | Web, Windows x64, Windows arm64, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu, Tarball | Main software |
| Discord PTB | Web, Windows x64, Windows arm64, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu, Tarball | Public Test Build |
| Discord Canary | Web, Windows x64, Windows arm64, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu, Tarball | Discord's canary build, releases features earlier than PTB |
| Discord Development | Windows x64, Windows arm64, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu, Tarball | Essentially Discord's canary build but with updates a few days earlier |
Mods
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| BeautifulDiscord | Simple Python script that adds CSS hot-reload to Discord. | | 🟢 Active |
| BetterDiscord | BetterDiscord extends the functionality of DiscordApp by enhancing it with new features. | | 🟢 Active |
| DiscoCSS | A tiny Discord CSS injector for Linux and Mac OS. | | 🟢 Active |
| Kernel | A super small and fast Electron client mod with the most capability. | | 🟢 Active |
| Moonlight | Yet another Discord client mod, focused on providing a decent user and developer experience. | | 🟢 Active |
| OpenAsar | Alternative app.asar for Discord. Makes your client feel snappier. |  | 🟢 Active |
| reUpdater | An open-source alternative to Discord's updater.node, featuring multithreaded downloads and allowing custom desktop client patches via an alternative update API. | | 🟢 Active |
| Replugged | A lightweight Discord client mod focused on simplicity and performance. | | 🟢 Active |
| shelter | shelter is a new generation client mod built to be essentially bulletproof (i.e. Discord switch to SWC). | | 🟢 Active |
| Equicord | Fork of Vencord with extra plugins and features. | | 🟢 Active |
| Vencord | Proper context isolation, inline patches, Custom CSS, Useful™ plugins | | 🟢 Active |
| Voxa | Voxa is a sleek, lightweight, and native macOS Discord client built using SwiftUI. | | 🟢 Active |
| VX | A lightweight client modification for Discord, compatible with the desktop, and web browser applications. | | 🔵 Active (Variable3) |
| Crycord | A Discord Client modification with plugins. Uses BeautifulDiscord's CSS injector. Oh it's also written in Crystal! |  | 🟠 On hiatus, since May 2021 |
| Aero | A next-generation Discord mod empowering users and developers alike. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Cumcord | Cumcord is a Discord client mod that focuses on making the Discord plugin development experience easier. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| DrDiscord | A simple client mod (compatible with other mods such as BD) | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Demoncord | A Discord client mod by satanists, for satanists. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Suncord | A fork of Vencord. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Vizality | An Discord app client modification, allowing for a truly customizable experience through the use of plugins, themes, and built-in settings. Runs on web browsers too | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Hykord | xHyroM's @discord client modification. Supports BD themes and is working on BD and PC/RP plugin support. |  | 🔴 Discontinued |
| EndPwn | An ASAR-based client modifcation for Discord. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Yelm | A private Discord client mod and datamining utility used and developed around mid 2017. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| EnhancedDiscord | A lightweight Discord client mod. | | 🔴 Abandoned |
| Acord Premium | A client you have to pay for that stole its code. | [Closed source] | ⛔ sus behavior (Stolen code) |
| hh3 | A private client mod. | [Closed source] | ⛔ (Status4) |
| GooseMod | GooseMod is a new, store-driven Discord mod. Runs on web browsers too | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| HolyMod | A lightweight client mod focused on simplicity and performance. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Lightcord | Lightcord is a simple and customizable client for Discord. | [Closed Source] | ⛔ sus behavior (Github and other stuff missing) |
| Powercord | A lightweight Discord client mod focused on simplicity and performance. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Topaz | Topaz is an upcoming mod which aims to be "next-gen" by using advanced tech to add never-before-seen innovative features. Runs on web browsers too | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Velocity | Velocity is a Discord Client modification that allows you to extend discord's functionality and capabilities. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| DiscordInjections | was a client mod that claimed to "pick up where BeautifulDiscord ends" by offering custom JavaScript in addition to custom CSS, which later transformed into a plugin system. It used DOM manipulation via mutation observers and jQuery and interacted with Discord's backend via discord.js. It is a selfbotting risk by today's standards. | | 🔴⛔ Discontinued & Ban Risk |
| Pyoncord or POC | A proof-of-concept discord client,if you see poc or pyoncord said today, they usually mean bunnycord or their team. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
Plugin bundlers
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ittai (AAGaming's fork) | Fork of Ittai that can bundle plugins to BetterDiscord, Powercord and Goosemod, making a plugin cross-platform. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Ittai (Original) | Bundler for BetterDiscord, Powercord and Goosemod, making a plugin cross-platform. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| BetterDiscordBuilder | Simplified plugin bundler for BetterDiscord. Supports JSX/TSX and TypeScript | | 🔴 Discontinued |
Wrappers/adapters/launchers for the official clients
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Datcord | An open-source discord client using firefox. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since Feb 2025 |
| Dorion | Lightweight alternative Discord client with a smaller footprint and some fancy extensible features |  | 🟢 Active |
| GoofCord | A privacy-focused client with features like message encryption, script loading, and more. Based on ArmCord. | | 🟢 Active |
| LegCord | LegCord is a custom client designed to enhance your Discord experience while keeping everything lightweight. | | 🟢 Active |
| Vesktop | Vesktop is a cross platform desktop app aiming to give you a snappier Discord experience with Vencord pre-installed | | 🟢 Active |
| Equibop | Fork of Vesktop with extra plugins and features. | | 🟢 Active |
| WebCord | A Discord API-less client made with Electron | | 🔵 Active (Variable3) |
| ChimeraCord | A functional but elegant unofficial Discord client for freeBSD, that aims for feature-parity with the official Discord client. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since 2023 |
| Discord-PWA | A wrapper for the Discord web client as a Progressive Web Application, for use with Chromium based browsers. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since 2023 |
| LemonCord | A fast & light weight Discord Client made with love using the Rust programming language. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since 2023 |
| Themecord | A lightweight application that allows users to customize the appearance of their Discord client using custom CSS themes. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since Jun 2023 |
| Discord-Sandbox | Open-source Sandbox Discord client for the privacy-minded. Say NO to intrusive data collection. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since 2022 |
| NativeCord | SSB (site-specific browser) for Discord. In other words, all it does is load Discord as a website... in an app. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since March 2022 |
| ArmCord is a custom client designed to enhance your Discord experience while keeping everything lightweight. | | ⛔ DMCA'd by ARM, rebranded to LegCord | |
| Sunroof | A fork of Vesktop. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Discord-Lite | A Light-Weight Discord Client written in Python for developers, by developers. | | 🔴 Discontinued, Developer MIA, repo and account deleted |
| 2018cord | A Client meant to replicate the look, and feel of Discord in 2018 | | 🔴 Discontinued/ Abandon |
| Discord Tauri | A lightweight Discord wrapper made in Tauri | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| FeatherCord | FeatherCord is a lightweight alternative to the Discord client and uses up to 25% less resources compared to the default desktop client. | [Closed source] | 🔴 Discontinued |
| GTK3cord | A Gtk3 Discord client in Golang |  | 🔴 Discontinued. development shifted to GTK4cord |
| Rikka | Rikka is a fast, powerful, and extendable Discord modification. It can load plugins, manage plugins, and features a rich API. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| RyU | Powerful Discord Client written in JavaScript. Lightweight, Efficient, Feature-rich. | | 🔴 Broken |
| Voidcord | A lightweight and extendable Discord web client on top of Neutralinojs. | | 🔴 Discontinued, Developer repo and account deleted |
Third-Party Reimplementations
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abaddon | Alternative Discord client made in C++ with GTK |  | 🟢 Active |
| Acheron | Abaddon rewrite in Qt 6. | | 🔵 Work In Progress (can be downloaded here) |
| AeroChat | A Discord client themed to look like WLM 09. |  | 🟢 Active |
| Discord Lite | An ultra-lightweight native Discord client for vintage and modern MacOS | | 🟢 Active |
| Discord Messenger-DM | Discord Messenger is a free Discord-compatible messaging client targeting both new and old Windows. | | 🟢 Active |
| Discordo | A lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client | | 🟢 Active |
| Oxicord | Oxicord is a high-performance, memory-safe Discord TUI client written in Rust. | | 🟢 Active |
| Endcord | Feature rich Discord TUI client, with RPC server, ascii art media player, message search and theming | | 🟢 Active |
| Fermi Chat | A SpaceBar Client written in TS HTML and CSS | | 🟢 Active ⛔ Does not support discord.com instead is a spacebar client |
| LibreDiscord | LibreDiscord is a free and open source voice and video client for Discord written in C using GTK3 and GLib. |  | 🟢 Active |
| QTCord | A lightweight, native Discord client written in Python with QT. | | 🟢 Active |
| Unicord | Discord Client for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile |  | 🟢 Active |
| Dissent | Dissent (previously gtkcord4) is a third-party Discord client designed for a smooth, native experience on Linux desktops. | | 🟢 Active ⛔ Does not mimic a real client5 |
| MiniCord | A minimalist version of Discord based on the web version. | | 🔵 Work In Progress 🟠 On hiatus, since Feb 2024 |
| Paicord | Discord client written in SwiftUI, with a goal of feature parity with customisation and Quality-of-Life additions! | | 🟢 Active |
| EveryDiscord | EveryDiscord is a light-weight FOSS Win32 client targeting old Windows, specifically NT5 but still trying to run on MS-DOS based Windows. Supports built-in plugins. | Visual Basic 6.0 | 🟠 On hiatus, since September 2025 |
| Spacebar Chat Client | Open source, themeable and extendable discord-compatible native Spacebar client | | 🟠 Inactive, Incomplete (Variable6) ⛔ Does not support discord.com instead is a spacebar client |
| Accord | Client for modern Macs | | 🟠 On hiatus, since December 2022 |
| Unofficial-discord-client | Unofficial client for discord build in C++ with Qt. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since March 2022 |
| Ripcord | Alternative desktop chat client for Slack (and Discord) designed for power users. | [Closed source] | 🔴 Broken (Patchs7) ⛔ (Warning8) |
| MiniCord | A minimalist version of Discord based on the web version. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since Oct 2022 |
| Swiftcord | A completely native Discord client for macOS built 100% in Swift and SwiftUI! | | 🔴 Broken |
| 6cord | A terminal front-end for the Discord chat service | | 🔴 Broken |
| concord | Discord client made in Qt5 | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Cordless | Cordless is a custom Discord client that aims to have a low memory footprint and be aimed at power-users. | | 🔴 Broken, Developer got banned during development |
| Discline | A terminal Discord client that you can actually use. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| discord-curses | Terminal-based discord client | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| DiscordFlex | A custom Discord client built from the ground up. |  | 🔴 Discontinued |
| DiscordQt | A Discord desktop client powered by Node.JS and NodeGui. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| discord-screenaudio | A custom Discord client that supports streaming with audio on Linux. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Discord-Terminal | An extensible Discord terminal client. Can be used with bot or user tokens. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Disorder | Command line discord client | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Disrust | A discord TUI client written entirely in Rust | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Fast-Discord | Client written in C++ and Qt | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Harmony | A Java-based Discord client. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| micro-discord | Simple discord client that doesn't use javascript |  | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Mirdorph | A crappy low feature Discord Client using libadwaita | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Pesterchum-Discord | A Discord client mimicking the Pesterchum chat client from Homestuck, for the few people who are still interested in that. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| protocord | A prototype CLI for a tiny Discord client. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Terminalcord | Simple terminal client for discord with a minimal look and UI. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| ToastCord | Discord Terminal UI made in Python 3 | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| DiscordBSD | An attempt at a native discord client for FreeBSD. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| RustCord | Tiny (5MiB) Discord client built with Pake/Tauri.Warning: This is a showcase of Pake and Tauri and is not meant to be daily-driven all though working. | | 🔴⛔ Discontinued |
Game console clients
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tricord | A modern Discord client for the Nintendo 3DS | | 🟢active |
| A-client-for-Discord-for-3DS | Applications that can use discord on 3DS | | 🟠 On hiatus, since since January 2022 |
| Quarrel | Quarrel is a Discord client for Windows and Xbox that aims to bring voice chat to Xbox and improved support for varying screen sizes on devices running windows. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since August 2022 |
| NXCord | Unofficial Nintendo Switch Discord client | | 🟠 On hiatus, since April 2020 |
| crcophony | Fast, neat discord TUI written in Crystal (read: cacophony) | | 🟠 On hiatus, since November 2019 |
| VitaCord | Discord Client for PS Vita / PS TV | | 🟠 On hiatus, since March 2018 |
| Unofficial Discord 3DS Client | This just a simple Discord client for the 3DS build using the Sleepy Discord library and the Wslay library. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since November 2017 |
| Switchcord | An unofficial Discord client for the Nintendo Switch console. | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| 3DiScord | A Discord client for the Nintendo 3DS | | ⛔ Discontinued. will get you banned |
Other clients
Other clients
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discross | A webhook bridge to send messages on Discord through a webpage | | 🟢 Active |
| purple-discord | A libpurple/Pidgin plugin for Discord | | 🟢 Active |
| Reliable Discord-client IRC Daemon (rdircd) | Reliable personal discord-client to irc-server translation daemon | | 🟢 Active |
| Sailcord (Previously SailDiscord) | A SailfishOS Discord Client |  | 🟢 Active |
| discord-j2me | Discord client for Java ME (MIDP 1.0 & 2.0) devices | | 🟢 Active |
| Weechat Discord | Weechat plugin for Discord support. | | 🟢 Active |
| DiskCord | Discord client for older web browsers (made for BlackBerry10 OS in mind) | | 🟠🟢 Active, NEW be careful. |
| DiscordBotClient | Discord Bot Client allows you to use your bot, just like any other user account. (except Friends and Groups) | | 🟢 Active ⛔ This client is meant to be used with Discord Apps (Bots) |
| DiscordBotClient (2022 - 2025) | older-style Discord Bot Client (lighter, fewer features). | | 🟢 Active ⛔ This client is meant to be used with Discord Apps (Bots) |
| Kori | Unofficial Discord Client for KaiOS made using SolidJS | | 🟢 Active |
| Discord WAP | Client for old mobile web browsers with Wireless Application Protocol 1.x support | | 🟢 Active |
| Miranda NG | Multi Protocol Program that supports Discord | | 🟢 Active |
| bitlbee-discord | Discord protocol plugin for BitlBee. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since September 2021 |
| discord-aos | Discord client for Sailfish OS | | 🟠 On hiatus, since November 2021 |
| crocodile | Discord client for TempleOS. | | 🟠 On hiatus, since November 2017 |
| discord-ppc | Discord version for PowerPC architecture | | 🟠 On hiatus, since June 2017 |
| Arcscord | NodeJS library written in typescript who interact with the Discord API | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Scor | Discord client inside the macOS Settings/System Preferences app with Vencord support.Could not find github, best info we have for now | | 🔴 Discontinued |
| Nightcord | Discord client featuring stolen code from a couple clients and mods, as well as malware, avoid using,provided vencord source as link | private | 🔴 ⛔ Stolen code,malware and Ai Coded |
| Discord client focused on bringing the best experience possible natively. Naticord uses DirectUI and Windows Forms, both bringing a native look to the client. DirectUI is an undocumented language made by Microsoft and was never released publicly. The library used in Naticord for DirectUI is DirectUI.Net. | | 🔴 ⛔ Work in progress,listing for time being,dont use till more info. |
Third party server implementations
The following are server implementations that reimplement Discord's client-server API:
| Name | Features | Language(s) | Is Self-hostable | Development Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polyphony | Free, open source, federated communications software, compatible with the Discord API and built with polyproto, Rust and love. | | 🟢 Yes | 🟠 Work in progress |
| Spacebar Chat | Almost fully featured re-implementation of Discord API Server experimental branch implementing limited support for federation using ActivityPub as the server-server API | | 🟢 Yes | 🟢 Active |
| Hummus | 2017 Discord server reimplementation | [Closed source] | 🟠 Ask creator for permission | 🟢 Active |
| Miranda NG | Multi Protocol Program that supports Discord | | 🟢 Yes | 🟢 Active |
| Oldcord | An open-source reimplementation of the old (2015-2018) Discord backend, including an on-demand client patcher. | | 🟢 Yes | 🔵 Active, official instance is down |
| Reflectcord | Reimplementation of Discord API Server on top of Revolt.chat | | 🟢 Yes | 🟠 On hiatus, since Jan 2024 |
| Litecord | Partial reimplementation of Discord API Server | | 🟠 Allowed, not intended | 🟠 On hiatus, since December 2023 |
| Miranda NG | Multi Protocol Program that supports Discord | | 🟢 Yes | 🟢 Active |
| AI | Description |
|---|---|
| 🚽 | Vibe coded |
| 💩 | AI art used |
| 🧻 | AI assisted |
| 🪠 | Previously used AI |
| 😇 | No AI art used |
| ❔ | NA we don't know |
Contributing
Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md if you want to contribute to this project.
Further comments
Will update as needed!
If you would like feel free to reach out to Nekopara#4266 (Head of Team) on the official Discord: https://discord.gg/qQQAnahBxZ
Disclaimer
We (contributors) are not responsible for you getting banned from using a 3rd party or you getting kicked from servers.
Footnotes
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Aliucord is based on the legacy Discord Android app, which was replaced by RNA in 2022. Despite this, development efforts continue to backport features to Aliucord. ↩
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While the owner does claim to have open-sourced the code, a long history of being behind scamming and stealing accounts has proven that they cannot be trusted nor any claims they make can be trusted. (Source) ↩
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Some occasional breaks might occur depending on the maintainers' free time. ↩ ↩2
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As of now we know little about this mod, but more info will be filled in as it is discovered. ↩
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Dissent makes no effort to spoof a real client, and intentionally omits
X-Super-Propertiesamong other things a real client has. (source: Hacker News) Dissent may cause your account to be flagged as a spammer or cause it to be banned. ↩ -
Client missing features SpaceBar server has. ↩
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While the main client is still On hiatus, the community has made patchs for the client to extend its usages and fix bugs that have occured over time. - Patcher - Audio Hook ↩
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Discord may temporarily suspend your account and ask you to reset password due to activities such as unauthorized token logins. ↩