About Datcord
February 3, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
About Datcord
Datcord is an Open-Source Discord client that respects your privacy. Datcord is based on Neutron, which means that it uses Firefox/Gecko under the hood instead of Chromium. Datcord is also the primary sample application of Neutron, which combats the monopoly of Chromium-based browsers through the use of Firefox/Gecko to create a Progressive Web Applications (PWAs).
Install
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Linux
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Flatpak
flatpak install io.github.gamingdoom.Datcord -
Arch Linux
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If you use Arch or an Arch-based distro, Datcord is available on the AUR:
aura -A datcord-bin
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Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.
- Datcord is available as a
.debfile from releases.
- Datcord is available as a
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Appimage
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Grab the AppImage from releases and run it. If you choose to integrate it, run
~/Applications/Datcord-* --appimage-portable-home
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Tarball
- Grab the appropriate tarball from the releases. Then:
tar -xvf datcord-linux-x86_64.tar cd datcord ./launch-app
- Grab the appropriate tarball from the releases. Then:
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Windows
- Installers for Windows are available from releases.
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MacOS
- Highly experimental MacOS versions of Datcord are available from releases.
- I don't have any way to test these builds, so they might not work.
Building from source
git clone https://github.com/gamingdoom/datcord.git --recurse-submodules -j8 && cd datcord
./build.sh
Credits
- @TheRedXD, who designed Datcord's logo.
- Everyone who created issues.