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.

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

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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 low-pass filter
• ✅ Mute / deafen (server-synchronized)
• ✅ Voice activity detection and speaking indicators
• ✅ 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)

Video and screen sharing

• ✅ Camera support with device selection
• ✅ Camera preview, mirroring, quality settings
• ✅ Screen sharing (video + audio)
• ✅ Screen quality presets (native, 1080p, 720p, 480p)
• ✅ FPS settings (15, 30, 60)
• ✅ Focused video view and popout
• ✅ Drag-and-drop video grid
• 📋 Virtual backgrounds (blur / image replacement)
• 📋 Go-live / stream to channel
• 📋 Video layout options (gallery, spotlight, sidebar)
• 📋 Clips (save and share screen-share moments)

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
• 📋 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)
• ✅ Roles (owner, admin, mod, member)
• ✅ Audit log
• ✅ Kick, ban, server mute/deafen
• ✅ Server reports
• ✅ Channel reordering (drag-and-drop)
• ✅ Sidebar customization (spacers, separators with labels)
• ✅ Per-channel role requirements (join, speak, stream)
• ✅ Welcome screen / onboarding flow
• 📋 Channel categories / folders
• 📋 Per-channel permissions / role overrides
• 📋 Forum channels
• 📋 Announcement channels
• 📋 Server templates
• 📋 Server discovery / browser
• 📋 Auto-moderation rules
• 📋 Webhooks

Direct messages and social

• 📋 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
• 📋 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)
• 🔨 Code-signed Windows installer (.exe)
• 🔨 Code-signed macOS app
• 📋 iOS app
• 📋 Android app

Self-hosting and infrastructure

• ✅ Docker Compose deployment
• ✅ Kubernetes / Helm charts
• ✅ Cloudflare Tunnel support
• ✅ S3-compatible storage (AWS S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2)
• ✅ ScyllaDB database
• ✅ Keycloak OIDC authentication
• ✅ Multi-network support (LAN + WAN)
• ✅ Health check endpoints
• 📋 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
• 📋 OAuth2 applications