Spatial audio
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.
Discord, rebuilt for the Mac.
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.
Golden Gate
The quick tour.
Every voice,
Messages
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
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.
Themes
Seventeen themes.
Each one complete.
Fallout Terminal repaints the wallpaper, the glass, the accent and even the text. Sixteen more are waiting in Settings.
01 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.
OptiCordYour Mac
Start 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.
OptiCordYour Mac
Share 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.
DiscordTheir Mac
They answer in plain Discord.
Their Discord rings, they pick up and your screen is already there. They can share theirs straight back.
Annotate in OptiCordSeen in Discord
Draw 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.
OptiTranslateSeen in Discord
You 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.
02 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.
Chat in two languages at once.
Turn on OptiTranslate and their Russian arrives in English. Your English goes out in Russian.
03 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.
- Apple Silicon only
- Built for M-series chips. No Intel code and no Rosetta.
- Windows of their own
- Pop any DM or channel out into its own window.
- Offline outbox
- Write without a connection. Your messages send as soon as you're back online.
- Search on this Mac
- Search reaches the messages stored on your Mac, not only the server's.
04 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, 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
05 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.
Golden Gate · Day
06 Why OptiCord
Keep Discord. Upgrade everything else.
Your account, your servers and your friends come with you. This is what changes.
- 01
A real Mac app.
Written in Swift for Apple Silicon, with native windows, menus and keyboard shortcuts. There's no browser underneath.
- 02
Nobody has to switch.
Your friends stay on Discord and still get your calls, your screen, your drawings and your translations.
- 03
More in every call.
Live captions, OptiTranslate, annotation, the soundboard, clips and lossless mic recording, all on one bar.
- 04
Yours to style.
Seventeen themes, including the premium M and OptiCrons designs, each repainting the whole app.
OT-06 OptiCord
The best seat on Discord is waiting.
OptiCord is in beta now. Tell us about your Mac, request access and we'll be in touch by email.
Apple Silicon · macOS 15 or later