Talk. Watch. Show up.

A voice-first home for the communities you actually show up for. Crisp streaming, low-latency voice, and a design built around the people in your server.

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Named after EverQuest's /shout — the zone-wide call that brought worlds together.

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For raid teams & guilds

Sub-channels split a voice room without losing the briefing. Intercom for cross-channel calls. Live presence with timezones — stop guessing who’s around.

For streamers & creators

4K 60fps screen share with hardware encoding. Watch Panel lets viewers pick which streams to render. Focus, Grid, and Custom layouts — one click to switch.

For close-knit communities

Sub-channels keep the noise sorted. AI summaries catch you up on what you missed. Roles, permissions, and audit log work the way you’d expect — your space, your rules.

<150 msEnd-to-end voice latency — faster than the room you’re in.

4K 60fpsHardware-encoded screen share with simulcast so every viewer gets the best their connection can hold.

Voice-firstSub-channels, intercom, persistent rooms — built around how communities actually use voice.

Free foreverEvery community feature on the free tier — no quality caps on the basics, no surprise paywalls.

Built by the team behind Kartonath Classic — an active EverQuest server that runs its raid nights on Shout every week. Same servers, same code, same people.

Feature spotlight

Channels, the way you actually use them.

Sub-channels are a Shout original — nested voice rooms inside a parent channel. The sidebar on the left isn't a screenshot. It's the live demo, updating in real time.

Sub-channels Nested voice rooms inside a parent. Split the raid into groups without spawning four separate channels — and keep the briefing on top of the tree where everyone can hear it.

Mixed types, one tree Text, voice, and stage channels live together in categories instead of being walled off into rigid sections. Icons tell you what's what at a glance.

Presence built into the sidebar See who's in voice without clicking in. Speaking indicators, status, and member counts are visible right from the channel list.

Intercom Cross-channel push-to-talk. Broadcast into another voice room without switching channels — perfect for “Heals, get to Support.”

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Feature spotlight

Voice and streams, side by side.

Watch a teammate's stream without opening another tab. Pick which streams to render. Snap layouts into the shape that works for your group. The screen on the right is the live demo — Halven is sharing a run right now.

Watch Panel Eyeball toggles let each viewer pick which streams to render. No forced grid — the noise is opt-in.

Focus, Grid, and Custom layouts One streamer takes center stage, or split tiles evenly across the group, or drag and resize on a snap grid — one click to switch.

4K 60fps, hardware encoded Simulcast with three quality layers so every viewer gets the best their connection can hold — no choppy frames, no melted CPU.

Live speaking + watcher counts Pulse on the avatar of whoever has the floor. Watcher count rides next to the stream so the streamer knows the room.

Feature spotlight

Know who's around without asking.

Live presence, role-colored grouping, and statuses surface from the sidebar — not a menu three clicks deep. The panel on the left is the live demo's actual member list.

Live presence Online, idle, do-not-disturb — status at a glance, grouped by role. No refresh required.

Role-colored hierarchy Leader, officers, tanks, healers, crafters — render in the order you set, with each role's accent color.

Status messages “Be back in 10” / “EQ raid 8pm” — quick context without needing to type in chat.

Speaking + voice presence Speaking pulse next to the name. See who's in voice without clicking through to the channel.

Under the hood

Built to disappear behind your community.

The engineering choices that mean Shout doesn’t glitch when you need it most — raid pulls, big streams, late-night chats. The stack you don’t notice is the one that’s working.

Written in Rust Predictable performance — no garbage-collector hiccups mid-call

Our own voice stack Built on WebRTC, owned end-to-end. No outside vendor going down with us

Hardware-accelerated NVENC, AMF, QuickSync — clean 4K from your GPU, easy on your CPU

Self-hosted infra Our servers, our racks — not rented from someone else’s cloud

Beyond voice

Everything else your community needs.

Voice and streaming are only half the platform. Here’s the rest of what you get out of the box.

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Roles, permissions, auto-mod

Per-channel role overrides. Auto-mod for spam, slurs, and link patterns. Welcome screens that actually onboard new members.

📅

Events, polls, and RSVP

Schedule raid nights with timezone-aware reminders. Run polls inline. Track who’s in. Nobody asks “when’s the run?” again.

✨

AI channel summaries

Missed the whole afternoon? A casual recap of who said what, in your community’s voice — not robot speak.

⚙️

Bots, webhooks, and API

Create bots with API tokens. Automate with webhooks. Schedule messages. Plug in whatever else your guild already uses.

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Forums and threads

Topic-based forums for long-form discussion. Thread collapse keeps channels readable. Tag and search across both.

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Server restore

Deleted a channel or role by mistake? Restore it. Full undo for server structure — never lose configuration again.

Why Shout

For groups that actually know each other.

Guilds, clans, raid teams, creators — the communities of fifty to five hundred where every member is a person, not a metric.

Your community is the customer. Premium unlocks more features for you — never raises a quality floor that should have been free in the first place.

No vendor on the critical path. We don’t depend on a third party for voice, video, or storage. When something needs fixing, we can ship the fix the same day.

Designed for the room, not the feed. Optimized for the group where everyone’s name means something. Not for an infinite scroll of strangers.

We ship what we use. Every release runs on our own guild’s raid nights before it ships. Features land when they work — not on a quarter cycle.

Privacy & security

The boring stuff, done right.

Security shouldn’t be a premium upcharge. Here’s what every server gets by default.

No data sold. No ads. We don’t sell your data, track behavior across the web, or serve ads. Ever. This is where the “no ads” promise lives.

Two-factor auth. TOTP-based 2FA with recovery codes — standard, free, on by default.

Encrypted sessions. Session tokens hashed before storage. IP tracking. Automatic expiry on idle.

Full data export. Download everything you’ve sent, posted, or uploaded. Delete your account any time.

Audit log on every action. Every server-level change records who, what, and when. Spot the bad invite, find the rename, undo the mistake.

Open by default. Public privacy policy and terms in plain language. No clickwrap, no hidden updates.

Recently shipped

Built in the open, shipped weekly.

Polls

Inline channel polls

Multi-vote, anonymous mode, live tallies, threaded under the message. Right-click any message to start one.

Voice

Custom layouts for streams

Focus, Grid, and a draggable Custom layout for screen shares. Count-aware tiles auto-fit 1, 2, 3, or 4 streamers.

Community

Sub-channel voice tree

Parent voice rooms with nested sub-channels — split a raid into Support and Heals without losing the briefing on top.

Pricing

Free for the community. Premium for the polish.

Free is forever — every community feature, no quality caps on the basics. Premium unlocks more for you or your whole server.

Free

$0 / forever

Everything a community needs to get going.

✓Unlimited text & voice channels

✓Sub-channels, intercom, push-to-talk

✓1080p screen share, hardware encoded

✓Roles, permissions, auto-mod, audit log

✓Events, polls, RSVP, bots, webhooks

✓AI channel summaries

✓25 MB file uploads

Get started

Shout lives on your desktop.

Native install. Global push-to-talk. Hardware-accelerated streaming. Voice that keeps running when you minimize.

Windows

Windows 10 or later • 64-bit

Download for Windows

✓ NSIS installer ✓ Auto-update

macOS

macOS 11 Big Sur or later

In beta — web app works today

Universal binary, DMG installer. Same Electron core as the Windows build.

→ Use the web app while you wait

Linux

Ubuntu 20.04+, Fedora 36+, Arch

In beta — web app works today

AppImage + .deb planned. Native PipeWire capture for clean stream audio.

→ Use the web app while you wait

Prefer the browser? Shout runs at full quality on the web — no install required.

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Shout into the zone. See who answers.

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