◈ A Liminal Studio Product
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A Matrix chat client built for teams and communities who refuse to choose between a great experience and owning their data. Encrypted. Federated. Fast. Yours.
| Polish | Encryption | Sovereignty | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slack | Yes | No | No |
| Discord | Yes | No | No |
| Signal | No | Yes | Partial |
| Element | No | Yes | Yes |
| Gloam | Yes | Yes | Yes |
001
Room switching in under 200ms. Messages appear before the server confirms. Cold start to conversation in under 1.5 seconds.
The fastest Matrix client ever built. Not because we benchmarked it — because you can feel it.
002
No "Unable to Decrypt" messages. New devices verify with a single QR scan. Keys back up and restore automatically.
Signal-grade encryption that never asks you to think about it. Not once.
003
Connects to any Matrix homeserver. No vendor lock-in. No telemetry. Data lives where you put it.
Run it on your server. Talk to anyone on theirs.
Everything teams depend on — not a subset, not "coming soon," not behind a flag.
Spaces
Spaces and channels with familiar room organization. Threaded conversations with unread tracking.
Search
Search 100,000+ encrypted messages in under half a second. The index lives on your device. The server never sees the query.
Composer
Mentions, reactions, markdown, slash commands. Link previews, media galleries, voice messages.
Control
Per-room notification control with global DND. The signal comes through. The noise does not.
Sync
O(1) room list loading regardless of server size. The room list loads in the time it takes to blink.
Recovery
BIP39 mnemonic for key recovery. One phrase protects all your encrypted history. That is your entire key ceremony.
Persistent voice channels with drop-in, drop-out. No call to place. No permission to ask. No ringing.
Built on Matrix because conversation is not always someone else's business.
"Walk into a voice channel. Stay as long as the conversation needs you."
"Most chat apps sell your attention to pay for the servers. Gloam does not have that problem. You own the servers."
macOS
Menu bar, dock badges, keyboard shortcuts, drag-and-drop
iOS
Share extension, widgets, Spotlight, Dynamic Type
Windows
Taskbar integration, jump lists, toast notifications
Android
Material You theming, share targets, widgets
Linux
AppIndicator, libnotify, Flatpak and Snap