Nokta Chat - Private chat for your community

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!

For full documentation, visit GitHub.

Download apps

macOS Android Windows

Tech stack

Backend: PocketBase
Frontend: Vite, React, Wouter, Base-UI