Discord - Talk, Chat, Hang Out

Category
Social Networking

Description of App

Discord is where you can make a home for your communities and friends. Where you can stay close and have fun over text, voice, and video chat. Whether you’re part of a school club, a gaming group, a worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends who want to spend time together, Discord makes it easy to talk every day, and hang out more often.

CREATE AN INVITE-ONLY PLACE

• Discord servers are organized into topic-based channels where you can collaborate, share, have meetings, or just talk to friends about your day without clogging up a group chat.

• Send a message directly to a friend or call them up with our voice chat feature

• Voice channels make hanging out easy. Got a free moment? Grab a seat in a voice channel so friends can see you’re around and pop in to talk without having to call. You can even watch videos together!

• Reliable tech for staying close with friends. Low-latency voice and video chat feels like you’re meeting in the same room.

• Easily talk with friends while gaming and steam roll the competition.

• Be a meme messenger with easy image sharing

STAY CLOSE WITH TEXT, VIDEO, AND VOICE CHAT

• Wave hello over video, watch friends stream their games, share stories over voice calls, or gather up and have a drawing session with screen share.

• Snap a photo and turn it into your own custom emojis and share them with friends.

• Share anything from funny videos and stories to your latest group photos, and pin your favorites to remember those moments later.

• Hang out in group channels or talk privately with direct messages

• Zoom through convos with friends using topic-specific channels!

FOR A FEW OR A FANDOM

• Custom moderation tools and permission levels can group up your friends or teams, organize meetings for your local book club, or bring together music fans from around the world.

• Create moderators, give special members access to private channels, and much more.

Version

206.1

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

17.2

Accessibility Comments

The app has significantly improved since V2. Server names are now properly labelled, there is a button to pull out the side menu, and there are much fewer instances of scrolling making the app behave improperly. You can also now reliably mute, deafen, and disconnect yourself when in voice chats, as well as swapping from earpiece to speaker mode when in a voice channel. Push to talk has been made accessible, although it will cut you off after a while but I think that's an iPhone thing and not an app thing.

There are still some issues, however. Private messages display as just a number above your top channel, or an unlabelled button if you have no new private messages. It now shows group chats that aren't servers by name there if they receive new messages, which is great. Scrolling past images is hit or miss, especially when they were posted with no text on the same message. Profile viewing is still a frustrating experience as they can clip sometimes while you're flicking left to right and show the chat log for the channel you're in instead of the profile information.

Reactions have been made accessible although they deal with the clipping issue badly, ie if you swipe left of the first result. Although you can select them as reactions accessibly, custom emotes still show up as blank, which is frustrating if you're in a server where they are a large part of how people chat. On Mac, and now under the reactions, they're read as the text used to create the emote, like :innocent:, image, and that's enough to know what they mean in most cases.

All that said, though, the daily use of this app has been great for me for several versions. I very rarely interact with images, and several of the iffy accessibility issues can be worked around by navigating by touch and swiping once you're in the right location.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads most page elements.

Button Labeling

Most buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.

Other Comments

After each update, they seem to be making strides on improving accessibility. I have yet to find a version completely unuseable since at least 2018 and that was only because I couldn't reliably swap servers. It is now very easy to navigate, in my opinion.

App Store Link

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/discord/id985746746?mt=8

Developer's Website

http://discordapp.com

Developer's Twitter Username

@discordapp

Recommendations

5 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Matthew Whitaker 5 months 3 weeks ago

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Comments

By KE7ZUM on Saturday, October 5, 2019 - 10:29

Love the new accessibility changes.

See this link not for a demo but just for a short 16 minute look. I tried to make it under 20 lol!

By Mitchell on Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 10:29

For whatever reason, when I'm on the default channell of a server that I am on, which is read-only, I cannot change channels to a different one. I am using the iphone 7 with the latest update to iOs.

By KE7ZUM on Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 10:29

Try clicking chat in the lower left, then at the top you should see a drawer. Click that and you will go back to the channel choice.

By KE7ZUM on Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 10:29

With the latest version there is a nasty bug in the app where you have a "close action sheet" element that is not supposed to be there unless you do something to invoke it. I have not yet reported it to the discord testers server as I want others to experience it. And know that it is a bug, plus others are having some issues with bug reporting as well. Anyway, anyone else  this? Also there is a bug with listening to live discord streams in the discord voice channel. Basically you cannot leave the stream.Also finding the speaker button when joining a voice chat is annoying as Hades.

Take care all.

By KE7ZUM on Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 10:29

Well, I did join their beta of iOs and the havge tried to report bugs, but the reporter is closed until the first Monday of January or later, so we'll see what happens.

Take care all.

By KE7ZUM on Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 10:29

Update on the bug reporting. They are closed until January of next year and they are changing the way bugs are reported, what ever that means, hopefully easier than it is now. As of now you have to go through and type into a form and have a certain format. It is confusing but hopefully things will get better. I'm getting a lot of help from the canary devs over at the discord testing thing so we'll see if the bugs I've reported even get solved. I hear complaints from sighted people that x y or z has not ben fixed in months so looks like we're not the only ones dissatisfied right now.

By Trenton Matthews on Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 10:29

The only bug for now I found in the latest beta, it randomly crashes.
Talking the iOS one here on an ipad.

By Hadi on Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 10:29

You guys also deal with the swipe bug issues, correct?
It's the one where swiping is not reliable and goes through invisible elements.
I find the the best way to deal with it is to explore by touch
I have reported this by the way so hopefully it'll be fixed soon

By KE7ZUM on Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 10:29

Yep, but you cannot report bugs now, it's closed until January 6th or so. I've reported that several times now.

By Hasan Tayem on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 10:29

Thanks for sharing this app in here, this is very useful for the gamers

By KE7ZUM on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 10:29

Not only gamers. I am thinking of using this for businesses and stuff I'm a part of. Just have the server extremely restricted.

By Firefly on Saturday, December 5, 2020 - 10:29

So I just joined discord. I am thinking I will use it for live streaming some of the audio games that I play I already do a podcast on audio games but I’m thinking this would be a good way to interact with my audience. I have a question though, once I create a server can I delete it and create a new one or am I stuck with that one creating channel seems straightforward.

By Zoe Victoria on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - 10:29

I probably should've asked this a lot sooner. When I first started using Discord, you could double tap a person's username next to their messages and quickly view their profile. But now, that's no longer possible. Is there another quick way to do this? Thank you in advance.

By KE7ZUM on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 - 10:29

sure there is. pass through gester on the message, or if you have a custom gesture set up, do that instead. A menu of choices will pop up. good luck.