AurCord is a custom client designed to enhance your Discord experience while keeping everything lightweight. Based of ArmCord.

Features

• Standalone client

  AurCord is built as a standalone client and doesn't rely on the original Discord client in any way.

• Various mods built-in

  Enjoy Vencord, Shelter and their many features, or have a more vanilla experience, it's your choice!

• Themes

  AurCord natively supports theming of the entire app, you can easily import BetterDiscord themes and manage them

• Made for Privacy™

  AurCord automatically blocks all of Discord's trackers; even without any client mods, you can feel safe and secure!

• Supports Rich Presence

  Unlike other clients, AurCord supports rich presence (game activity) out of the box thanks to arRPC.

• Mobile support

  AurCord has experimental mobile support for phones running Linux such as the PinePhone. While this is still far from an ideal solution, we're slowly trying to improve it.

• Much more stable

  AurCord is using a newer build of Electron than the stock Discord app. This means you can have a much more stable and secure experience, along with slightly better performance.

• Cross-platform support!

  AurCord was originally created for ARM64 Linux devices since Discord doesn't support them. We soon decided to support every platform that Electron supports!

How to run/install it?

Packaging status

Windows

Debian, Ubuntu and Raspbian repository

AurCord is available on our official repositories for apt package manager. By using this method you'll receive automatic updates and get all the dependencies. Run the following commands to install AurCord from them:

curl -fsSL https://eu.AurCord.app/pgp-key.public | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/AurCord.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/AurCord.gpg] https://eu.AurCord.app/apt-repo stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/AurCord.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install AurCord

Snap package

AurCord is also available on the Snap store here.

Similar to AurCord-git on AUR, you can install the latest dev builds through snaps by running this command:

sudo snap install AurCord --channel=latest/edge

Snapd will automatically update the app including developer builds.

Winget Package

AurCord is also available on the winget-pkgs repository:

winget install AurCord.AurCord

Scoop package

AurCord is also available on Scoop extras repo:

scoop bucket add extras

scoop install AurCord

AUR Package

AurCord is also available on the Arch User Repository (AUR):

• AurCord-bin - AurCord Release ~ Static binary from release, stable release only
• AurCord-git - AurCord Dev ~ Latest devbuild built from source (takes ~1 minute) using the system electron

Install it via an AUR helper tool like yay.

Example: yay -S AurCord-bin

FreeBSD

You can also get AurCord running on FreeBSD by following these instructions.

Pi-Apps

AurCord is also available in Pi-Apps.

Pre-built binaries:

Check the releases tab for precompiled packages for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. Alternatively, use our Sourceforge mirror.

Compiling:

Alternatively, you can run AurCord from source (NodeJS, pnpm, and rust toolchain are required):

1. Clone AurCord repo: git clone https://github.com/AurCord/AurCord.git
2. Run pnpm install to install dependencies
3. Build with npm run build
4. Compile/Package with npm run package

FAQ

Do you have a support Discord?

Will I get banned for using this?

• You are breaking Discord ToS by using AurCord, but no one has been banned from using it or any of the client mods included.

Can I use this on anything other than ARM?

• Yes! AurCord should work normally under Windows, MacOS, and Linux as long as it has Electron support.

How can I access the settings?

• Either right-click on the tray icon and click Open Settings or open Discord settings and scroll down the sidebar until you see information about versions. Click on the AurCord version and the settings window will pop out.

How does this work?

• We are using the official web app and wrapping it up in Electron. While you may think this is lame and done like thousands of times before, what makes us unique is that we actually strive for creating a customized experience. You can very easily load themes and mods with no installers/injectors. You can even make the client have transparency effects and follow the fluent design of Windows! At its core, it's just a simple web wrapper, however, we applied many patches to make this work well for you <3

Why is macOS support lacking?

• Due to me not owning any macOS device, I can't easily debug/test or do anything related to it. Of course, VMs and Hackintosh machines exist but from my experience, these are unreliable or very time-consuming to set up and maintain. While AurCord "works" on macOS you may encounter weird issues or inconsistencies with other apps in terms of how they behave (for example macOS lack of tray).

Where can I find the source code?

• The source code is on GitHub.

Where can I translate this?

• Translations are done using our Weblate page.

Credits

• AurCord UI design, branding, and a few features
• OpenAsar
• arRPC (for Rich Presence)
• (pre v3.1.0) Cumcord
• (pre v3.1.0) GooseMod
• (pre v3.1.0) GooseMod Extension
• (pre v3.1.0) FlickerMod
• (Pre v3.0.0) custom-electron-titlebar
• electron-builder

Discord is trademark of Discord Inc. AurCord is not affiliated with or endorsed by Discord Inc.