Roadmap

This page tracks every major feature across Gryt. Use it to see what's already available, what's actively being worked on, and what's planned for the future.

Emoji	Meaning
✅	Shipped — available now
🔨	In progress — actively being worked on
📋	Planned — on the radar, not yet started

Have a feature you'd like to see? Check the feature requests page.

Voice and audio

✅ HD voice (WebRTC, Opus, 48 kHz, configurable bitrate)
✅ Noise suppression (RNNoise AI)
✅ Echo cancellation
✅ Auto Gain Control
✅ Dynamic range compressor
✅ Noise gate
✅ eSports mode (low-latency audio visualization)
✅ Mute / deafen (server-synchronized)
✅ Voice activity detection and speaking indicators
✅ Voice state grace period (transient disconnects don't drop you from the channel)
✅ Device hot-swapping
✅ Loopback monitoring
✅ Configurable hotkeys (push-to-talk, disconnect)
✅ Audio visualization (spectrum, level meters)
✅ Push-to-talk (configurable hotkeys, browser + Electron)
📋 More hotkeys (mute, deafen, camera, screen share, etc.)
✅ Per-user volume control (0–200%)
✅ Audio cues for state changes (join, leave, connect, disconnect)
✅ Connect / disconnect sounds (configurable, custom sound files)
✅ Per-channel voice settings (required push-to-talk, bitrate presets, eSports mode, disable RNNoise)
📋 Soundboard (play audio clips into voice)

✅ Camera support with device selection
✅ Camera preview, mirroring, quality, FPS, and codec settings
✅ Screen sharing (video + audio)
✅ Screen share audio isolation (excludes Gryt voices on Windows/macOS desktop)
✅ Per-application audio capture (capture only a specific app's audio on Windows)
✅ Screen quality presets (native, 4K, 1440p, 1080p, 720p, 480p)
✅ FPS settings (30, 60, 90, 120 — experimental: 144, 165, 240)
✅ Focused video view and popout
✅ Popout video with volume control
✅ Drag-and-drop video grid
✅ Gaming mode (cursor hiding, motion-optimized encoding, higher bitrate)
✅ Hardware-accelerated codec selection (H.264, VP9, AV1)
✅ Custom max bitrate control
✅ Advanced screen share settings (codec, bitrate, degradation preference)
✅ SVC temporal scalability (L1T1/L1T2/L1T3 with per-receiver layer-aware forwarding)
✅ Native DXGI screen capture (bypasses Electron IPC, direct WebSocket transport)
✅ Hardware video encoding (H.264 / HEVC via NVENC, AMF, QuickSync — zero-CPU-copy GPU pipeline)
✅ Insertable streams (injects pre-encoded H.264 directly into WebRTC, skipping decode→re-encode)
📋 Virtual backgrounds (blur / image replacement)
📋 Go-live / stream to channel
📋 Video layout options (gallery, spotlight, sidebar)
📋 Clips (save and share screen-share moments)
📋 End-to-end encryption (SFrame / insertable streams)

Text chat

✅ Rich text messages with Markdown
✅ Message editing and deletion
✅ Message replies
✅ File attachments (multi-file, drag-and-drop, clipboard paste)
✅ Image lightbox
✅ Media player for audio/video
✅ Mentions (@username autocomplete)
✅ Emoji reactions
✅ Emoji autocomplete (:shortcode:)
✅ Emoji picker
✅ Custom server emojis (upload, batch, ZIP, animated GIF, BTTV import)
✅ Link embeds (YouTube, Twitch, Spotify, SoundCloud, TikTok, Instagram, X, Vimeo)
✅ Profanity filter (off / flag / censor / block)
✅ Message grouping and date separators
✅ Unread message tracking
✅ Code syntax highlighting in code blocks
✅ Image skeleton previews (correctly-sized placeholders while images load)
✅ Typing indicators
📋 Threads (threaded replies)
📋 Pinned messages
📋 Message search
📋 GIF picker (Tenor / Giphy)
📋 Stickers
📋 Polls
📋 Message forwarding
📋 Spoiler tags
📋 Slow mode (per-channel rate limit)
📋 Scheduled messages

Servers and channels

✅ Multi-server support (connect to many at once)
✅ Text and voice channels
✅ Channel creation, editing, deletion
✅ Voice channel text chat (optional)
✅ Server settings (name, description, icon)
✅ Invite system (single-use, multi-use, expiration, revocation, custom invite codes)
✅ Invite link previews (server icon, name, and description on invite pages)
✅ Roles (owner, admin, mod, member)
✅ User identity replacement (owner can migrate a user's data to a new Gryt ID)
✅ Audit log
✅ Kick, ban, server mute/deafen
✅ Server reports
✅ Channel reordering (drag-and-drop)
✅ Server reordering (drag-and-drop)
✅ Sidebar customization (spacers, separators with labels)
✅ Welcome screen / onboarding flow
✅ LAN server discovery (mDNS, desktop app only)
✅ LAN open join (skip invite codes for LAN clients — ideal for LAN parties)
✅ Embedded server (host a server directly from the desktop app — one-click create, auto-start, LAN party mode)
✅ Webhooks
📋 Channel categories / folders
📋 Per-channel permissions / role overrides
📋 Forum channels
📋 Announcement channels
📋 Server templates
📋 Server discovery / browser
📋 Auto-moderation rules
📋 Events (scheduled events with name, description, date/time, and location)

📋 Direct messages (1:1)
📋 Group direct messages
📋 Friend list / friend requests
📋 User blocking

User profiles and presence

✅ Avatars
✅ Nicknames
✅ AFK status
✅ Online / in-voice / offline presence
📋 Idle / do not disturb / invisible status
📋 Custom status messages
📋 Custom nickname fonts (Google Fonts — server can enable or disable)
📋 Profile card (customizable banner, bio, and linked social accounts)
📋 Per-server user bio / profile page
📋 Activity / rich presence

Notifications

✅ Toast notifications
✅ Sound notifications
✅ Unread badges
📋 Push notifications (desktop / mobile)
📋 Per-channel notification preferences
📋 Do-not-disturb mode

Accessibility

✅ Atkinson Hyperlegible typeface
🔨 Full keyboard navigation
🔨 Screen reader support (ARIA)
🔨 Focus management
🔨 WCAG AA color contrast
✅ Dark / light theme with system preference
✅ Customizable appearance (accent color, gray scale, border radius, UI scale, chat font size, emoji size)
📋 Accessibility settings panel (consolidated preferences)
📋 Reduced motion mode
📋 High contrast theme
📋 ARIA live regions for chat
📋 Real-time captioning / transcription
📋 Full WCAG AAA contrast

Platform and apps

✅ Web client
✅ Desktop app (Electron — Linux, macOS, Windows)
✅ Auto-updates (Electron, all platforms, with update availability indicator)
✅ Persistent file-backed storage (settings, auth tokens, and theme survive across restarts)
✅ Linux packaging (AppImage, deb, Snap Store, AUR)
🔨 Linux packaging (Flatpak / Flathub)
🔨 Code-signed Windows installer (.exe)
✅ Code-signed and notarized macOS app
📋 Mini mode (compact pop-out window with single channel)
🔨 Mobile-responsive web layout
📋 iOS app
📋 Android app

Authentication and security

✅ Keycloak OIDC single sign-on
✅ User registration with terms of service acceptance
✅ Identity certificates (challenge-response join — community servers never see your auth token)
✅ Passkey / passwordless login (WebAuthn, Electron + web)
✅ Security settings panel
📋 Two-factor authentication (TOTP)
📋 Account deletion self-service

Self-hosting and infrastructure

✅ Docker Compose deployment
✅ Kubernetes / Helm charts
✅ Windows self-hosted server (standalone .exe bundle, no Docker required)
✅ Embedded server in desktop app (host from the client on Windows, macOS, and Linux — no separate install)
✅ Cloudflare Tunnel support
✅ S3-compatible storage (AWS S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2)
✅ SQLite database
✅ Identity service (certificate issuance for client identity verification)
✅ Multi-network support (LAN + WAN)
✅ Health check endpoints
✅ Prometheus metrics + optional Grafana monitoring
✅ Isolated image processing worker (sharp runs in a separate service, crashes don't affect the server)
📋 Server-to-server proxying / federation
📋 Evaluate MinIO alternatives (Garage, SeaweedFS, OpenSTRG)
📋 One-click install scripts
📋 Admin dashboard (web UI for server management)

Developer and integrations

✅ REST API
✅ WebSocket API (Socket.IO)
✅ Open source (AGPL-3.0)
📋 Bot / integration API
📋 Slash commands
📋 Plugin system
📋 Community browser (discover and install plugins, themes, and extensions from a public GitHub-backed registry)
📋 OAuth2 applications

Roadmap

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