Voice rooms
A room is created with one button and lives while someone is in it. Media flows through a self-hosted LiveKit SFU.
Features
Everything a conversation needs
Chatovo started from one idea: open a room and talk. Here is everything that grew around it while the project was being built.
Voice and video
The core of the project: rooms on a self-hosted SFU, with no cap on call length.
The call keeps going
Open the lobby, settings or the admin panel and the call continues in a compact bar at the bottom. Only the leave button ends it.
Camera
The camera turns on straight from the room control bar, and its quality is set in settings: 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K.
Screen sharing
Share a window, a tab or the whole screen — everyone watches without leaving the room.
Connection indicator
The quality badge reports the real round-trip time, so a struggling connection is obvious right away.
Per-participant volume
A separate slider for every speaker. One is too quiet, another too loud — level them out locally.
Microphone sensitivity
A voice-activation threshold cuts the background out: keyboard, fan, a conversation in the next room.
Push-to-talk
The mic opens only while the key is held. Switches to voice activation in a single click.
Global shortcuts
In the desktop app the mic and audio stay controllable while Chatovo is minimised — from a game or an editor.
Device pickers
Microphone, camera and audio output are chosen in the room menu and remembered between sessions.
Audio processing
Echo cancellation, noise suppression and automatic gain control are toggled in settings.
Show what you are playing
The desktop app shows people the name of the game or app you have running. One switch turns it off.
Chat
Text next to voice, in the same window, with nothing to switch between.
In-room chat
A text channel opens beside the participant grid and keeps the room's history.
Markdown messages
Lists, links, code blocks and quotes render as you type — GFM plus line breaks.
Attachments
Drop files and images into the chat; the server stores them itself, with no third-party cloud involved.
Edit and delete
Edits and deletions reach every open client immediately, with no reload.
Room reactions
Emoji float over the participant grid — a quick reaction that does not interrupt the speaker.
Friends and direct calls
A friend list, who is online, and one-to-one calls.
Friend list
Friends live in a list you open from the side panel, showing who is online right now.
Friend requests
Send, accept or decline a request; incoming ones are highlighted in the panel.
Online presence
You can see who is online and who stepped away, with no page refresh needed.
Direct calls
A one-to-one call with a ringtone, without spinning up a separate room.
Message push
Direct messages and incoming calls reach your phone as push notifications, even with the app closed.
Rooms and access
The owner decides who gets into a room and how.
Open rooms
The lobby lists public rooms, showing where a conversation is happening and how many people are in it.
Private rooms
A password on entry: the room stays listed under a lock, but only opens for people who know the password.
Invite by link
A button in the room copies a link that leads straight to the conversation, skipping the list entirely.
Recent rooms
Rooms you were in recently stay within reach, so you never have to hunt for them again.
Room management
The owner renames the room, changes its password and privacy, or deletes it outright.
Apps
One account, one codebase, four platforms.
Web
Runs in the browser with nothing to install: open a link and you are in the room.
Desktop
Tauri builds for Windows, macOS and Linux — a native window instead of a browser tab.
Tray and auto-update
A system tray menu keeps the mic one click away, and updates install themselves.
Android
The mobile build ships through RuStore and shares an account with the web.
Safe areas
On a phone the interface respects notches and the gesture bar, so nothing hides under system elements.