Cressida.

MADE FOR LINUX. AT HOME ON WAYLAND.

Your conversations.
Your kind of space.

A native Discord client for Linux and Wayland. A place for your communities, late-night DMs and everything in between. Built in C++, shaped for your desktop.

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Free and open source Early development

CRESSIDA / NATIVE CLIENTLINUX + WAYLAND
Cressida's native window with a server rail, channel list, conversation, composer and member list in the dark theme. Sample content from offline demo mode.
The actual client, with offline sample conversations. No account needed to try demo mode.

FAMILIAR CONVERSATIONS. NATIVE DETAILS.

All the little things
that make it yours.

01 / CONVERSATIONS

Room for every thread.

Server channels, forum posts, threads and direct messages. Rich text, replies, custom emoji and compact embeds keep the conversation together.

Explore chat
02 / PERSONALITY

A palette that fits.

Choose a bundled palette or write your own. Switch between light, dark and your system preference, then adjust corners and text to your taste.

Make it yours
03 / YOUR DESKTOP

Close the window.
Stay in the loop.

A native tray keeps the client within reach. Notifications bring you back to your conversation, and opening Cressida again focuses the existing window.

Meet the desktop details
An offline direct message showing a custom status beside the recipient's name and a profile panel with biography, mutual counts and a full-profile button.

MORE THAN A NAME

Keep your people
in the picture.

See who's around, read a friend's status and keep their profile beside your conversation. One-to-one DMs have their own profile panel, right where you need it.

A closer look at DMs

GROWING IN THE OPEN

A work in progress.
A project you can shape.

Cressida is in early development. Text chat and image uploads are here. Voice and video calls, arbitrary file uploads and file drag-and-drop are still ahead.

Try it, tell us what gets in your way, or help build the next piece.

Current capabilities →Report an issue ↗

YOUR NEXT CONVERSATION STARTS HERE

Make yourself at home.

Find an installation route for your Linux desktop.

Install Cressida Or help us build it →