Is Gratonite actually free?
Yes. 100% free. No credit card, no catch, and no fake limits that force upgrades.
The friend-first platform.
BUILT BY
FRIENDS,
FOR FRIENDS.
Open source · No tracking · Player-made cosmetics
Gratonite was built for a better place to hang out with friends. Chat, hop in voice, play games, study together, collect cool cosmetics, and just exist online without being farmed for engagement.
Platforms
4
Deploy
5 min
License
AGPL
Gratonite / Gratonite Lounge
# general
# design
# voice
AK
Alice K. 2m ago
Just shipped the new dashboard. Check it out!
MR
Marcus R. just now
Looks incredible. The spatial audio in voice is wild.
Voice · 3 connected
Spatial Audio ONMake it
yours.
Built for people who want to laugh, game, study, and keep their corner of the internet feeling like home.
💬
Chat that feels alive
Drop in when you're around. Talk in channels, in threads, or in DMs without everything feeling like work.
🎙️
Hop-in voice rooms
Click once and you're in. Great for late-night game sessions, co-working, or just hanging out.
📹
Video when you want it
Turn cameras on when the moment calls for it. Keep it casual, not performative.
🧭
Your own spaces
Make spaces for your game crew, your study group, your guild, your friend circle. Your rules.
✨
Cosmetics & collectibles
User-made cosmetics, collectible drops, and an auction house economy that gives communities their own flavor.
🛡️
Built for people, not metrics
No ad feed. No engagement bait. No attention traps. Just your people, your conversations, and your community culture.
Self-Hosting
YOUR SERVER.
YOUR RULES.
Run your own Gratonite instance in 5 minutes. Full control over your data, your community, your way. No coding required.
Total Privacy
Your data stays on your hardware. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party access. Ever.
Federation
Federation is live — your instance connects to the relay automatically. Users can join servers on other instances and vice versa.
Zero Lock-in
Export everything. Move to another host. Fork it. It's open source and yours to keep.
1 command. That's it.
$ curl -fsSL https://gratonite.chat/install | bash
Works on any Linux machine, VPS, or even your home PC. Behind NAT? Use the built-in relay network. No port forwarding needed.
Real people. Real communities.
A better place to hang out.
For friends, guilds, classmates, and creative communities that want a hangout, not another feed.
Platform Stats
live"My friend group moved here and nobody looked back."
Early Gratonite community feedback
GamingStudyCreators
Built in the open
Built for every kind of community
Gaming
Study
Creative
Music
Startups
Anime
100%
Open source
Yes
Self-hostable
None
Tracking
Questions, answered.
The real questions people ask before moving their community.
Who is this for?
Friend groups, guilds, classes, study circles, and creator communities who want a better place to hang out.
What makes it different?
It feels like your own place. Chat and voice are the core, then your community adds cosmetics, collectibles, and auction-house culture on top.
Do I need to install anything?
No. You can use it in the browser right now. Desktop apps are available, and native iOS + Android builds are in active rollout.
Is this open source?
Yes. The code is open. You can inspect it, contribute to it, and build on it with us.
Your space. Your rules.
Bring your community home. Chat, voice, cosmetics, collectibles, auction house, and a place that actually feels human.