OptiCord

Discord, rebuilt for the Mac.

Golden Gate

€29.99, paid onceLifetime licence for one Mac

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OptiCord puts your Discord account in a native Mac app. Everything Discord does, plus live translation, drawing on screen shares, spatial audio and all of Pinterest. Nothing else on the Mac comes close.

17Full-window themes
0Chromium inside
2Languages in one chat
€29.99Once, not monthly

Highlights

The quick tour.

A connected OptiCord call with Voice and Video settings open and Spatial Audio set to Manual Room — **Every voice, in its place.** Open Voice & Video during a call, set Spatial Audio to Manual Room and drag people to wherever you want to hear them. Put your headphones on and the call surrounds you.

An OptiCord DM in the Transparent theme: blue sent bubbles on the right, replies on the left and a GIF playing in the thread — **Conversations that feel like a Mac.** Yours in blue on the right, theirs on the left, GIFs playing right in the thread. Bold, code and quotes sit one click above the message box.

Discover in OptiCord: public servers with their member and online counts — **Find a server. Skip the browser.** Browse public communities without leaving the app. Every card shows its members and who’s online right now, and Join is one click away.

OptiCord in the Fallout Terminal theme: green text on a terminal-style window — **Seventeen themes. Each one complete.** Fallout Terminal repaints the wallpaper, the glass, the accent and even the text. Sixteen more are waiting in Settings.

Calls

Every call, from the better seat.

Real recordings from two Macs. OptiCord on yours, the regular Discord app on theirs. Nobody on the other end needs anything new.

OptiCord, your MacStart a call from any DM. One click in the header and it rings. The call bar slides in above your chat, and the conversation stays right where it was.

OptiCord, your MacShare from the bar. Pick the whole screen or one app and bring its sound. Live captions, OptiTranslate, the soundboard, annotation, clips and a lossless recording of your own mic all sit on the same bar.

Discord, their MacThey answer in plain Discord. Their Discord rings, they pick up and your screen is already there. They can share theirs straight back.

Annotate in OptiCord, seen in DiscordDraw on what you share. Circle it, cross it out, point at it. Your marks appear on their screen while you draw, and they never leave Discord.

OptiTranslate, seen in DiscordYou speak English. They read Russian. OptiTranslate captions what you say, translates it as you talk and places it in your screen share, so anyone watching in Discord can read along.

Everything they saw came from OptiCord.

Messages

Your conversations. Native to the Mac.

Hover any message to react, reply or forward it. Long messages wrap into clean bubbles, and Jump to Present takes you straight back to the newest one.

An OptiCord DM with reactions and a reply bar on hover — **Hover to react.** React, reply or forward from the message itself.

A DM in the Transparent theme with a GIF in the thread — **Bubbles, the Mac way.** Yours in blue on the right, theirs on the left, GIFs playing in the thread.

A server channel with an image, replies and reactions — **Channels in full.** Images, replies and reactions in line, members on the right.

A poll in a channel, in the Fallout Terminal theme — **Polls, in the chat.** Ask the channel and watch the votes come in.

The composer's attachment picker open in a media channel — **One box for everything.** Images, GIFs, files and Pinterest from the message box.

Search across DMs and channels with filters — **Search that remembers.** Every DM and channel, including the messages stored on your Mac.

A DM in the Kaffe theme — **Every theme, every chat.** A DM in Kaffe. The conversation stays put when you switch.

A channel in a warm theme with replies and an image — **Native to the Mac.** Real windows, menus and shortcuts around every conversation.

OptiTranslate

Chat in two languages at once.

Turn on OptiTranslate and their Russian arrives in English. Your English goes out in Russian. Drag the line to see both.

A conversation in Russian with OptiTranslate off

The same conversation with OptiTranslate on: every message shown in English

Built for Mac

Swift and AppKit. Zero Chromium.

Discord’s own app is built on Electron, a web browser dressed as a Mac window. OptiCord is written in Swift with SwiftUI and AppKit, and it runs only on Apple Silicon.

OptiCord in the M theme, a native Mac window

Discord, complete

Everything Discord does. And then some.

Servers, DMs, group chats, threads, forums, polls, stickers, voice messages, calls and screen sharing. All of it, rebuilt natively. Then OptiCord keeps going.

All of Pinterest in OptiCord's message box

OptiCord's voice settings: microphone, speakers, levels and the compressor

All of Pinterest, right in the message box. Search it without an account or a browser, and send any image or GIF straight into the chat.

Search every DM and every channel. Filter by from, in, mentions and has, and tick Messages on this Mac to include everything stored locally.

Studio-grade voice settings. Choose your mic and speakers, set levels and test your input. The compressor keeps quiet words audible without loud ones clipping.

Everything you use in Discord

Servers, channels and Discover
DMs and group chats
Threads and forums
Voice and video calls
Screen sharing with sound
Reactions, replies and forwarding
Polls, stickers and GIFs
Voice messages
Pins and spoilers
The Discord soundboard

What OptiCord adds

OptiTranslate for calls and chats
Live captions
Drawing on your screen share
Spatial audio rooms
All of Pinterest in the composer
Voice message transcripts you can scrub by word
Lossless recording of your own mic
Seventeen full-window themes
Search across the messages on your Mac
Pop-out windows and an offline outbox

Themes

Seventeen themes. Pick a mood.

A theme changes the wallpaper, the glass and the accent colour together. Switch as often as you like. Your conversations stay exactly where they are.

OptiCord in the Golden Gate · Day theme — **Golden Gate · Day.**

OptiCord in the Night City theme — **Night City.**

OptiCord in the Red Anime theme — **Red Anime.**

OptiCord in the Fallout Terminal theme — **Fallout Terminal.**

OptiCord in the Golden Gate · Night theme — **Golden Gate · Night.**

Why OptiCord

Keep Discord. Upgrade everything else.

Your account, your servers and your friends come with you. This is what changes.

A real Mac app.
Written in Swift for Apple Silicon, with native windows, menus and keyboard shortcuts. There's no browser underneath.
Nobody has to switch.
Your friends stay on Discord and still get your calls, your screen, your drawings and your translations.
More in every call.
Live captions, OptiTranslate, annotation, the soundboard, clips and lossless mic recording, all on one bar.
Yours to style.
Seventeen themes, including the premium M and OptiCrons designs, each repainting the whole app.

Side by side

Same Discord. Better seat.

Compared	OptiCord	Discord’s own app
Built with	Swift, SwiftUI and AppKit	Electron, with Chromium inside
Chat in another language	OptiTranslate, both directions	Not built in
Calls in another language	Translated captions in your share	Not built in
Live captions	On the call bar	Not built in
Pinterest	Search and send from the message box	Paste a link
Windows	Pop out any DM or channel	Calls only
Search	Includes the messages on this Mac	The server's results
Writing offline	Sends when you're back online	Waits for a connection
Themes	Seventeen, each repainting the window	Colour themes

Alternatives

Looking for an alternative?

Most people use Discord’s own app, a browser tab or a modded client. OptiCord replaces all three with a native Mac app, and your friends don’t have to change a thing.

Coming from

Discord desktop app alternative

Discord's own Mac app runs on Electron. OptiCord signs in to the same account in a native Swift app, with real Mac windows, menus and keyboard shortcuts. Every way to run Discord on a Mac, compared.

Discord in the browser alternative

A tab gives you Discord and nothing more, and it's easy to lose. OptiCord gives any DM or channel its own window, searches the messages stored on your Mac and keeps an offline outbox.

Vesktop and Vencord alternative

Vesktop wraps Discord's web app in its own Electron shell with Vencord's plugins inside. OptiCord is a native client, with translation, captions and drawing on your screen share built in.

BetterDiscord alternative

BetterDiscord injects themes and plugins into Discord's own app. OptiCord's seventeen themes are part of the app, each repainting the wallpaper, the glass and the accent colour, with nothing to inject.

Legcord, WebCord and Dorion alternative

Lightweight Discord clients still load Discord's web app in a browser engine. OptiCord rebuilds Discord natively in Swift, so there's no web page underneath.

Discord translation bot alternative

Translation bots only work in servers that have added them. OptiTranslate works in your own app. Their messages arrive in your language, yours go out in theirs, and on calls your words appear translated in your screen share. How to translate Discord messages and calls.

Questions

Straight answers.

What is OptiCord?

A native Mac app for your Discord account, written in Swift for Apple Silicon. It does everything Discord does, then adds live translation, drawing on screen shares, spatial audio, Pinterest in the message box and seventeen themes.

Do my friends need OptiCord too?

No. They stay on the regular Discord app and still get your calls, your screen, your drawings and your translations. They can share their screen straight back.

Do I sign in with my Discord account?

Yes. Your account, your servers and your friends come with you. There's no account with us.

Is OptiCord an Electron app?

No. It's written in Swift with SwiftUI and AppKit, with native windows, menus and keyboard shortcuts, and there's no browser underneath. Discord's own app is built on Electron.

How does translation work?

Turn on OptiTranslate in a conversation and their messages arrive in your language while your replies go out in theirs. On a call it captions what you say, translates it as you talk and places it in your screen share, so anyone watching in Discord can read along.

Can the people watching see my drawings?

Yes. Circle it, cross it out, point at it. Your marks appear on their screen while you draw, and they never leave Discord.

How does spatial audio work?

Open Voice & Video during a call, set Spatial Audio to Manual Room and drag people to wherever you want to hear them. Put your headphones on and the call surrounds you.

What's on the call bar?

Live captions, OptiTranslate, the soundboard, annotation, clips and a lossless recording of your own mic. You can share the whole screen or one app, with its sound.

Can I send images from Pinterest?

Yes. All of Pinterest sits in the message box. Search it without an account or a browser and send any image or GIF straight into the chat.

Does it work offline?

You can keep writing without a connection, and your messages send as soon as you're back online. Search can also include every message stored on your Mac.

What does it require?

An Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 15 or later. There's no Intel version.

How do I buy and activate OptiCord?

Pay €29.99 with PayPal on this page. It then gives you the download and a one-time activation link. Install OptiCord, click the link, and OptiCord activates itself on that Mac. There's nothing to type. One purchase is a lifetime licence for one Mac, and updates arrive inside the app.

Is OptiCord made by Discord?

No. OptiCord is an independent app from OptiTools, and we're not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Discord. Discord is a trademark of Discord Inc.

Get OptiCord.

€29.99one-time

Pay once and it’s yours on one Mac. No subscription, no account with us. After payment you get the download and a one-time activation link. Click it on your Mac and OptiCord activates itself.

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Apple Silicon
macOS 15 or later
One Mac per licence