Independent community communication

Talk. Watch. Show up.

Low-latency voice, crisp streaming, and community tools for guilds, clans, creators, and close-knit groups. Built around the people in your server—not an endless content feed.

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No ads1080p streaming on the free planWindows and webNo credit card to start

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.

Low latencyDirect, real-time voice built for natural conversation and coordinated play.

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.

No adsNo advertising business model. Optional homepage analytics stay off unless you allow them.

Built and used by the team behind Kartonath Classic — an active EverQuest community that runs real raid nights on Shout every week.

Feature spotlight

Channels, the way you actually use them.

Sub-channels are nested voice rooms inside a parent channel, designed around how coordinated groups actually split up. 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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Streaming inside voice

Share once. Watch your way.

A screen share stays in the room with the conversation. The streamer sends one feed; each viewer chooses what to watch and how to arrange it.

Live demo # Raid · stream room

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Choose Render only the streams you want.

Every viewer controls their own Watch Panel instead of inheriting a forced grid.

Arrange Focus, Grid, or Custom.

Give one stream the stage, tile the room, or drag streams onto a snap layout.

Adapt Three simulcast quality layers.

Shout can serve a quality level suited to each viewer's available connection.

4K · 60 FPS Maximum output Premium plan · hardware-encoded where supported

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.

What Shout does differently

Built around the room, not the feed.

Shout takes the familiar community-server model and improves the places where real groups spend their time: voice organization, watching streams, catching up, and staying in control.

Area

Conventional approach

Shout

Voice organization

Separate rooms that fragment a group

Parent rooms with nested sub-channels and cross-channel intercom

Watching streams

A fixed single-stream or grid view

Viewer-selected streams with Focus, Grid, and draggable Custom layouts

Catching up

Scroll back and reconstruct the conversation

Optional, owner-enabled summaries for the channels a server includes

Business model

Broad platform incentives

Paid upgrades, no ads, and optional homepage analytics only with consent

Under the hood

Built to disappear behind your community.

Engineering choices designed for responsive voice, stable streams, and long-running community sessions. The best infrastructure is the kind your group rarely has to think about.

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

Our own voice stack Built on WebRTC with a media layer LabCMD controls and operates end-to-end

Hardware-accelerated NVENC, AMF, and QuickSync provide high-quality streaming with lower CPU overhead

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.

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, and keep the plan visible to the whole group.

AI channel summaries

When a server owner enables them, casual recaps help members catch up on included channels without robot speak.

Bots, webhooks, and API

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

Forums and threads

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

Server restore

Restore supported channel and role changes after an accidental deletion, with an audit trail showing what changed.

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.

We own the core communication stack. LabCMD operates Shout’s API, voice, video, and storage stack. When something needs fixing, we can ship the fix ourselves.

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. Shout is exercised by the same team that uses it for real guild coordination, giving product decisions a practical feedback loop.

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. Optional homepage analytics require your consent.

Two-factor auth. TOTP-based 2FA with recovery codes is available to every account at no added cost.

Protected sessions. Session tokens are hashed before storage, can be revoked by device, and expire automatically.

Account controls. Export available account data, delete individual messages, and delete your account from Settings.

Server audit logs. Supported server-level changes record who, what, and when so moderators can investigate administrative activity.

Clear terms and choices. Public legal notices in plain language, explicit signup acceptance, and privacy controls you can revisit at any time.

Recently shipped

Built in the open, improving continuously.

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.

The current free plan includes core community features and up to 1080p screen sharing. Premium unlocks higher limits and personalization for you or your whole server.

Free

$0 / current free plan

Everything a community needs to get going.

✓Unlimited text & voice channels

✓Sub-channels, intercom, push-to-talk

✓Screen sharing up to 1080p

✓Roles, permissions, auto-mod, audit log

✓Events, polls, RSVP, bots, webhooks

✓Owner-enabled AI channel summaries

✓25 MB file uploads

Get started

Shout on desktop and web.

Install Shout on Windows or Linux for a dedicated desktop experience, or open it in your browser with no download required.

Windows

Windows 10 or later • 64-bit

Download for Windows

✓ NSIS installer ✓ Auto-update

macOS

macOS 11 Big Sur or later

Planned — web app works today

A universal DMG build is planned.

→ Use the web app while you wait

Linux

Ubuntu 20.04+, Fedora 36+, Arch

Download AppImage Download .deb

Version 1.8.47 • 64-bit

✓ Portable AppImage ✓ Debian / Ubuntu package

Prefer the browser? Shout's core chat, voice, and community experience works without an install.

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Get started

Shout into the zone. See who answers.

Create an account without a credit card, spin up a server, and invite your people when you're ready.

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