Features
What the current version of Anten does.
Voice
- Voice rooms, a nested room tree, temporary rooms and room passwords
- Advanced noise suppression with Light, Normal and Strong levels
- A voice gate that opens only for speech, and automatic gain
- Opus at up to 128 kbps, with FEC against lost packets
- Shortcuts for push-to-talk, mute and deafen
- Each speaker's level evened out separately
- While a priority speaker talks, everyone else drops to 30%
- People who stay quiet for a set time are moved to an AFK room
Video
- Camera and screen sharing, with the application's sound
- A lighter layer when a viewer's connection gets worse
- Low resolution in a small tile, full in a large one
- Video frames end-to-end encrypted too, by default
Text chat
- Replies, reactions, pinned messages and polls
- Bold, italic, quotes, code and spoilers
- Files and pictures; metadata such as location is removed from pictures by default
- 100 custom emoji and 30 stickers per server
- Mentions, unread messages and a notification setting per room
- Search in encrypted rooms runs on the device
Direct messages
- One-to-one conversations and groups of up to 10
- Messages, files and reactions always end-to-end encrypted
- Blocking, and turning off new conversations
Running a community
- Server and channel groups, permissions with power values
- Kick, move, mute for up to a week, ban and poke
- Server nicknames and group icons
- An audit log of who did what and when, without message content, kept 90 days
- Backup and restore; the backup file is encrypted with a passphrase
Privacy and security
- End-to-end encryption: by default for voice and video, always in encrypted rooms and direct messages
- Signed key exchange, key pinning and safety numbers
- Sign in without an account: the identity key is made on the device
- Optional username and password; the password is not sent to the server
- Keys locked with a password, a passkey, or in the desktop app by the operating system
- No metrics, analytics or third-party requests
Desktop app
- Push-to-talk and shortcuts that work outside the window
- Window or screen sharing in one step, with the application's sound
- In-game overlay: who is speaking, in a corner of the game
- Taskbar badge, system tray and several servers
- Updates come from your server and are checked against the publisher's signature
Bots and webhooks
- Up to 50 bot accounts; slash commands, buttons and menus
- A JavaScript library for bots that also works in encrypted rooms
- A music bot that plays in voice rooms
- Up to 10 webhooks per room for posting from outside (not in encrypted rooms)