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SkaldSelf-hosted chat, video, and voice — without the trade-offs.

End-to-end encryption, threaded rich-text messaging, screen sharing, file sharing, push notifications, a plugin system, and a full admin dashboard — built to be deployed once and run forever.

Features & pricing
Admin quickstart

Features & pricing

What's included at each tier, from Community to Enterprise.

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First-time admin guide

Stand up your first installation in under an hour.

Read the walkthrough

End-user guide

Day-to-day chat, calls, threads, reactions, and E2EE.

Open the manual

Integrations

SSO, SCIM, webhooks, Slack import, ClamAV, and more.

Browse integrations

Webhooks for developers

Payload shape, signing, retries, and event reference.

Integrator guide

FAQ

Quick answers to common "how do I…" questions about everyday use.

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Why teams choose Skald ​

  • You own the data. Skald runs on your own Kubernetes cluster, VM, or single host — no SaaS dependency, no per-seat surprise bills, no third party reading your messages.
  • End-to-end encryption when you need it. Per-room E2EE with X25519 key exchange and XSalsa20-Poly1305. Server-side compliance archival is opt-in.
  • Built for operators. Helm chart, Flyway-managed schema, Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Loki log shipping, Jaeger tracing — all in the box.
  • Extends without forks. Plugin SDK for Spring components, per-plugin Flyway migrations, scoped STOMP topics, client-side extension points.

What's inside ​

Real-time chat with markdown, threads, polls, reactions, and link previews. LiveKit-based video and voice with screen sharing. File uploads to MinIO or any S3-compatible store. Push notifications on iOS, Android, web, and desktop (Electron). Optional ClamAV virus scanning. Audit logs, data retention policies, OIDC + SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, custom branding, and webhooks — see the full features matrix.

About these docs ​

These pages cover Skald as a product — evaluating, deploying, integrating, and using it day to day. Internal operator runbooks and the deep technical reference live in the repository docs index. Source code is on Gitea.

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