Pyr
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You've been invited to join
a Pyr server
Opened in Pyr
Carry on there: Pyr shows you the server and asks before joining. You can close this tab.
Didn't open? Try againPyr isn't on this computer yet (or it didn't open). It's free, with no account to make.
Download Pyr for WindowsYour invite comes with itPyr runs on Windows and Linux PCs. Open this invite on your computer to join.
It may have run out, or been taken back. Ask whoever sent it for a new one.
How this stays safe
- Nothing downloads or installs unless you click. Pyr comes only from pyr.gg, over HTTPS.
- Pyr always asks before joining, and shows you the server's name and address first.
- The invite carries the server's fingerprint: Pyr checks it's really this server, so nobody in between can pose as it.
- Joining shares your IP address and your Pyr identity with that server (no email, no account). Only join servers from people you trust.
- Pyr opens games only from the Pyr Library. They run on your PC like any app: Firelit Games reads each one's source and builds it from that source, and Pyr checks it's that build before opening it.
- If the game isn't on this PC yet, Pyr shows you its page in the Library first: nothing installs until you click Install.
- Pyr checks every update against Firelit Games' signature before installing it.
- The download's SHA-256:
New Call friends, or a group of up to 10 →
Hang out with your friends on a server you own.
Voice channels, webcams, smooth 1080p60 screen sharing and Discord-style chat for your group. Free, with no account to make.
Pyr isn't on Mac yet. It runs on Windows and Linux PCs.
Open this page on your PC to download. Pyr isn't on phones yet.
- No account or email
- No ads
- No subscription
Free 1080p60 screen sharing
Native app, not Electron
Open source on GitHub
Your server, on any host
Signed, automatic updates
Everything in one app
All the good parts of Discord. None of the strings.
Pyr works the way your group already does, so it feels familiar from the first minute. The difference is who it answers to: you.
Voice that sounds like you're in the room
Opus voice up to 192 kbps, echo cancellation and noise suppression. Voice isolation lets only your voice through: no keyboard, fans or TV.
A soundboard everyone hears
Pyr's own sounds and up to 200 of your server's, ready in any call. Play them with a key, even in a game.
Chat that feels like home
Text channels, replies, reactions, @mentions, pictures, GIF search, custom emoji and favorites.
Your server, on any host
Rent a small one in your own DigitalOcean account in a few minutes, or use any VPS you have. A backup moves it anywhere, history and all.
Private calls you can check
Messages, pictures, voice, cameras and screens are end-to-end encrypted. Make sure it's really them in ten seconds: say six words to each other, or ask something only they'd know. Then nobody can listen in, not even the server.
Words match: it's really them
- fox
- volcano
- guitar
- pizza
- anchor
- owl
No account. Ever.
Your identity is a key on your PC, not an email address or a phone number. It works on every server, and nobody asks for your ID.
Your safety code5610 6158 4473 9582 5319 1387
Light, quick, and it keeps itself up to date
A native app written in Rust, not a web page in a box. Updates are signed by Firelit Games, and one click installs them and puts you back in your voice channel.
Rustno Electron
64–192kbps voice
1 clickto update
Set up in minutes
From nothing to voice chat in three steps
Only one person in your group needs a server. Everyone else just installs Pyr and clicks the invite.
1
Install Pyr
Download it free for Windows or Linux. There's no account to make: Pyr creates your identity on your PC.
2
Make your group's server
Click Create a server. Rent a small one in your own DigitalOcean account, set up any VPS you already have, or host on your PC.
About $4–6 a month for the whole group, billed by your host. Free on a PC you leave on.
3
Invite your friends
Send the invite link, short like pyr.gg/qrslmnov (or your own, like pyr.gg/our-crew). Friends install Pyr and open it, and they're in, with every channel ready.
Pyr and Discord
An honest comparison
Discord does a lot well. Here's where Pyr is different, side by side with Discord's free plan.
FeaturePyrDiscord (free)
Screen sharing✓Up to 1080p60, or 1440p30, free–720p30. 1080p60 needs Nitro, or a server with 7 boosts
Voice quality✓64 kbps, up to 192 kbps–Up to 96 kbps (more with boosts)
Account✓None: a key on your PC–Email account; age checks for some people
Where your group lives✓Your own server, with any host–Discord's servers
Calls end-to-end encrypted✓Yes, and six words say it's really them✓Yes, with privacy codes
Messages end-to-end encrypted✓Yes: every channel, DM and group✕No
Desktop app✓Native, written in Rust–Electron (a web page in a box)
Phones and Mac✕Not yet: Windows and Linux✓Yes
Streaming in 1080p60 on Pyr
$0 for everyone
Pyr is free. Your group's server costs about $4–6 a month in all, billed by your host, or nothing on a PC you leave on.
Streaming in 1080p60 on Discord
$9.99 a month, per person (Nitro)
Or a server with 7 boosts. Discord's free plan streams at 720p30.
Where Discord is ahead, for now
- Phone and Mac apps
- Big public communities to discover
- Bots and integrations for everything
- Nothing to host: they run the servers
Discord details from Go Live and Screen Share, Server Boosting FAQ, Nitro and Discord's blog, checked October 2026. Prices in US dollars. Discord is a trademark of Discord Inc.; Pyr isn't connected with Discord.
New: Plugins and skins
Make Pyr do more.
Install programs, add-ons and skins from the Pyr Library, right inside Pyr. Every plugin is built from its Rust source code, and only after someone has read it.
Program · Windows
Chimbrowser
A lean, private browser: it blocks ads and trackers, makes YouTube play smoothly, and has an AI sidebar for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and others. Install it, and it opens right inside Pyr.
Add-ons, sealed off from your PC
Add-ons run inside Pyr in a sandbox. They can't touch your files or the internet, and they only do what you allow. The first one, Dice, rolls in chat: /roll 2d6+1.
Make your own with Claude
Add Pyr's Claude connector in Settings → Claude, and Claude can build a skin or a plugin with you, show the skin on your Pyr while you talk it over, and send it to the Pyr Library, where it's reviewed before anyone else sees it. The plugin kit has everything Claude needs.
Checked every time
Pyr checks every file against the library's signed list before it installs a plugin or a skin, and again each time a program opens.
Skin · in the Library
Skins: Pyr in your colors
Change Pyr's colors, put a picture behind the chat, and bring fonts and sounds of your own. Skins have no code, and Pyr checks every file before it uses one. Blood Moon is the first; Settings → Appearance brings back Campfire any time.
Pyr Casino, all new in 0.12
A casino your friends can't cheat. Neither can the house.
Poker with the people on your server and bots, fourteen slot machines and the table games, for play chips. Before every round the house commits to a secret seed, your Pyr adds its own, and afterwards your Pyr plays the round again to check every card, reel, ball and die. Live with it? Streamer mode gives the game the window, keeps room for your camera, and calls every result out big enough to read on stream.
Slots · fourteen machines
Ember Dragon, Pyr Sevens and Reel Row's twelve
In Ember Dragon every egg that lands feeds your dragon, until it's an Elder that multiplies wins by five; fill the reels with fireballs for the Grand. Pyr Sevens has the Phoenix Jackpot, which grows with every spin anyone makes on your server. The twelve from Chimbita's Reel Row are Remastered: tumbles and multiplier bombs up to 500×, Hold & Win with its Mini, Minor, Major and Grand, wilds that grow, freeze, walk and stay, Ante and a feature to buy on every one, each with its own mini game and its own band of sounds. Every one pays back about 99%, and shows how everyone's done at it.
Prize pool · lit once a day
The Bonfire
A cut of the house's take on every bet feeds a giant prize pool. Every round you play, in any game, throws embers on the fire, and when it's lit, fourteen embers are drawn: the Grand Ember takes half the pool, three Blazes a tenth each and ten Sparks a fiftieth. The house fixes the draw before the first ember, and your Pyr draws it again to check.
Poker
Hold'em and Omaha at tables and in tournaments, with a hand strength meter and a time bank. Bots only see their own cards, each has a way of playing and a voice of its own, and the Genius ones play like the strong players they're named for. Everyone has an MMR.
Blackjack
Seven seats, people and bots together. Six decks, 3 to 2 blackjacks, doubles, splits and insurance, with basic strategy's hint if you want it.
Roulette
A single-zero wheel that spins like a real one, with hot and cold numbers. Click the line between two numbers for a split, a corner for four.
Craps
Five seats round the same dice. Pass line, odds at true odds, place bets and hardways, and the stickman's call on every roll.
Baccarat
Five seats at one shoe. Player, Banker or Tie, dealt by the tableau, with the bead road of every coup.
Dice
Slide your chance from 2% to 98%: the lower it is, the more it pays.
Keno
Pick up to ten numbers. Ten for ten pays 100,000 to 1.
Pyr Friday Night
A free tournament every Friday at 10 PM Eastern, its prize money the week's rake.
Built in the open
Tested before every release. Open for anyone to check.
- Nearly 500 automated tests run before each release: real calls between real apps over the network, 1080p screen shares, stream sound that reaches only viewers, voice through server restarts, and backups restored on another server.
- Signed updates. Pyr only installs updates signed with Firelit Games' key, and won't take an old or expired one.
- Open source. The code is on GitHub under the MIT or Apache 2.0 license.
- Honest about gaps. Not tested yet: renting through DigitalOcean's real website, and real cloud firewalls. Not built yet: phone and Mac apps.
Latest release
What's new in Pyr 0.13.18
Released November 1, 2026
- See the full list in Pyr after you update.
Light your group's fire.
Pyr is ancient Greek for fire: the first place people ever gathered to talk. Same idea, rebuilt in Rust. Your fire, your circle, nobody else's servers. Free for Windows and Linux.
Questions
Good questions, straight answers
Is Pyr really free?
Yes. The app is free and Pyr never charges you. The only cost is your group's server, if you rent one: about $4–6 a month from DigitalOcean (or whichever host you pick), billed by them, for the whole group. Hosting it on your own PC is free; the PC just has to stay on.
Does everyone need a server?
No. One person sets up the server, and everyone else installs Pyr and opens the invite link. You can be in as many servers as you like.
Windows says "Windows protected your PC". Is Pyr safe?
Windows shows that for new programs that aren't code-signed yet, and Pyr is new. Click More info, then Run anyway. You don't need to turn anything off.
Want to check first? The code is on GitHub, and the download's SHA-256 is shown after you click Download. After that, updates are checked against Firelit Games' signature.
Who can see our messages?
Only the people who can read where they were written. Messages and pictures in every channel, direct message and group are end-to-end encrypted, and so are calls (voice, cameras, screens and stream sound). The server keeps only scrambled text it can't read. It still knows who wrote when and where, and who can read where, since it decides who's in.
Can I use Pyr on a Mac or my phone?
Not yet. Pyr runs on Windows 10 and 11, and on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 or newer, Linux Mint 21+, Pop!_OS, Debian 12+).
Can we move our server later?
Yes. The owner's Pyr backs the server up to their PC every hour, and a backup sets up the same server on any other host, with all its history. You're never tied to one provider.
How do updates work?
Pyr checks for a new version every few hours (or when you click its version number at the top of the window). When there is one, a green Update button shows up there: click it, and Pyr downloads it, checks Firelit Games' signature, installs it and puts you back in your voice channel.
How do I uninstall it?
On Windows, use Settings → Apps → Pyr → Uninstall. Your identity and settings stay in %APPDATA%\Pyr, in case you come back. On Linux, run sudo apt remove pyr.