Root: Community Chat & Voice

Root Communications, Inc.

About this app

Root is community chat with voice and video calls, screen share, themes, and apps, all in one place. Chat in channels, hop into a call with your group, and add apps to enhance your community experience.

FREE PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION
No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own.

VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE
Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up.

APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid.

BRING YOUR SERVER
Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles.

FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.

Ratings and reviews

Mobile experience on this is somehow worse than the vibe patched desktop version. Thought I would see how the mobile app performs and within less than a minute of launch screens are failing to load and the application is unresponsive. This happened after logging in, going to my Community, and then checking Community Settings.

I love how customizable the whole app has become, and how quickly the devs have worked to update it- the only really big worry I have right now is that the notifications seem to be nearly nonexistent, and it keeps logging me out. I have friends from other countries I love to stay in contact with leaving Discord, thus timing is super important because of the huge difference timezones. Meanwhile, our servers essentially send no notification on mobile for receiving messages of kind...

this app is pretty good, I do like using it. but oh my god. the lack of notifications is freaking impossible to deal with. me and my boyfriend moved over from discord, and since we're long distance we talk all the time usually only on this app. we like using servers cuz its easier to organize our thoughts and stuff, but in order to get a notification you have to reply to the other person. this does not work half the time and push notifications are becoming infrequent the longer I use the app.

What’s new

Adds Accessibility settings and quick replies from notifications, plus other performance improvements.

- New Accessibility settings: text size, role colors and motion.
- Pull a message notification down to react or reply.
- Root reopens the conversation you left.
- Large communities load faster, with members loading as you scroll.
- Fixed the layout on Arabic and other right-to-left phones.
- Fixed hearing people while deafened.