You live in the Rift.
Portals take you anywhere.
Communities, voice, music, weather, calendars, and more, arranged exactly how you want, in one window you never close. Private by default. Yours by design.
One window. Everything.
Your digital life is fragmented. Chat in one window, music in another, calendar somewhere else, communities scattered across apps. Rift ends that.
Start with the best chat platform you've ever used, then layer your world on top of it with Portals, personal widgets for music, weather, sports, to dos, and more. Your communities live in Shards, private organized spaces you own and control.
Stop alt-tabbing. You just live here.
Shards
Your communities. Text, voice, forums, galleries, tickets, and more, organized with channels and roles, run by the people who built them. Think of a Shard as a community home base.
Portals
Mini app widgets that sit alongside your chat: music player, weather, calendar, to do lists, YouTube, Twitch, sticky notes, feeds. Drag them anywhere in your layout. Your desktop, inside your chat.
Your Layout
Drag, resize, and arrange everything exactly how you want. Save named layouts for different workflows. It is a fully customizable workspace, not a chat app with tabs.
Identity
No email. No phone number.
Just you.
Create an account with a username and password. That's it. No email address, no phone verification, no government ID. When you sign up, you receive a Rift Key, a 12-word recovery phrase that's yours forever. It's your backup, your cryptographic identity, and the root of your encryption keys.
Your Rift Key is all you ever need. No email, no phone, no third-party identity provider in the loop.
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Built for communities that care about real conversation.
E2EE Direct Messages
DMs encrypted end-to-end with forward secrecy. We can't read your conversations by design, not merely by policy.
Crystal clear voice
Low latency voice powered by LiveKit with AI noise suppression. Sound great, even in noisy environments.
Gallery Channels
Media-first channels with grid layouts, lightbox viewers, and reactions. Share art, photos, and clips.
Forum Channels
Threaded discussions that don't get lost. Pin topics, organize by tags, keep conversations on track.
Deep Theming
Custom themes, accent colors, profile banners, animated avatars. Make your space truly yours.
Soundboard
Soundboards for your whole Shard and for you personally, with instant playback in voice. Add fun without compromising quality.
Plus: Highlights, Pins, Polls, Tickets, Announcements, and more channel types. See the full list.
Built differently
Rift is independent and founder-led, funded by subscriptions. Not ads, not data sales, not venture capital.
E2EE DMs with forward secrecy
DMs encrypted end-to-end on your device. Shard messages encrypted at rest on our servers.
Automatic EXIF stripping
Location data, camera info, and metadata silently removed from every uploaded image.
Real message deletion
When you delete a message, it's gone: not soft deleted, not hidden, but purged.
Media proxying
Images served through our edge network. Your IP address never leaks to third-party hosts.
No behavioral profiling
No ad profiles, no engagement algorithms, no data sales. Revenue comes from subscriptions only.
No phone or ID verification
Username and password. Rift Key for recovery. That's it. No phone number, no email, no government ID.
Read our privacy policy for the full picture, or check the warrant canary and transparency report.
Ready to stop alt-tabbing?
Join Rift. One window, your communities, your tools, your rules.