What is Nokta?
A private chat app for small communities, families, and friends that you host on your own server.
Complete control over your data. No ads. No tracking.
When to use it?
- You're not happy with popular chat apps (censorship, privacy concerns)
- You want complete control over your community's data
- You love self-hosting your apps
Features
- Simple: for a single community only
- Chat with yourself, anyone on the server, or a group
- Video calls (powered by daily.co)
- Text, images, videos, voice messages
- Reactions, replies, forwards
- Search, mute, starred messages
- 5 themes, background images
- English & Russian
How to set it up?
- Buy an Ubuntu 24.04 server from Hetzner, DigitalOcean, or Vultr
- Sign up with daily.co (10,000 free minutes/month)
- Use the cloud-init script for 1-click installation
- Visit Admin panel at
https://your-domain.com/_/
- Create your first users and start chatting
Tech stack
Backend:
PocketBase
Frontend: Vite, React, Wouter, Base-UI