Rooms that feel live
Drop into a voice room and see who's talking at a glance. An AI noise canceller cleans up fans and keyboards, and every call is peer to peer.
On air now
Talk like you're in the same room.
Voice rooms, video and chat for your people, with direct messages only the two of you can read. On a server you control.
Free and self-hosted. No tracking, no ads, nothing sold.
Everything a group needs to hang out
Built voice-first, with the extras people actually use.
Private by design
Direct messages and their files are end-to-end encrypted on your devices. Compare a safety number to be sure nobody is in the middle.
Video and screen share
Turn on your camera or share a screen, with sound. The clip studio records every track separately, right on your device.
Make it yours
Custom themes, animated name styles, avatar decorations and role colours. Spaces get their own icon, banner and badge.
Plugins and bots
Install community plugins from the shop, or build your own. Bots welcome people, answer commands and post updates.
Safer spaces
Roles with real permissions, voice moderation, and a sensitive media filter that runs on your own device.
Bring your Discord
Paste a Discord server template and get the same roles, categories and channels in a space, ready for your friends.
Everywhere you are
Works in any modern browser, on desktop and phone, plus a desktop app with global push-to-talk and an in-game overlay.
Your server, your rules
The Hub is plain PHP, HTML and JavaScript. Upload the folder to any PHP host and it sets itself up on the first visit, with SQLite or MySQL. No build step, no Node server.
- Your messages and files stay on your server
- Voice and video go directly between people
- Upgrades itself when you update the files
# on any PHP 8.1+ host
unzip the-hub.zip -d /var/www/hub
# open it in a browser: it creates its database
# and the first account becomes the Lounge owner
https://your-site/hub/
# optional: host a plugin shop for other Hubs
php tools/shop-publish.php plugins/my-pluginBuild on The Hub
The developer wiki covers everything you can make.