baucord

What it does

Hang out with a handful of friends: talk, type, share your screen. Nothing you don't need.

voice

Opus over UDP with voice activity detection or push-to-talk. Tuned to keep the gap between someone speaking and you hearing them as short as it can be.

rough connections

Each person gets their own adaptive jitter buffer, so one friend on hotel wi-fi doesn't drag everyone else's audio down with them.

screen share

H.264 via FFmpeg, with the source's audio along for the ride. 720p or 1080p, quality is a slider. Viewers get a resizable window with live stats if they want to see them.

per-user audio

Right-click anyone to mute them or ride their volume. Settings stick around, so the loud friend stays quiet next time too.

global hotkeys

Mute, deafen and start a screen share from any window. Rebind by pressing the keys you want, not by editing config.

text chat

For links, and for whoever's mic just died.

your machine

Closes to the tray and keeps the call running. Settings live in a JSON file next to the binary — no installer, no registry, no background services.

the server

A dumb relay. It forwards packets, that's it — no mixing, no transcoding, no accounts to manage. Ships in the same zip as the client.

The interface

Native widgets, one window. This is the whole app.

Download

Every zip has the client and the dedicated server for that platform. Grab the one you need; anyone hosting also needs the server-side one.

Unzip, run dedicated-server somewhere your friends can reach — a spare box, a cheap VPS, a homelab — then hand them the address. That's the whole deployment.

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