The Discord alternative for Terminal nerds.

Don't forget to ⭐ the repo!

• 🟢 Vim-style navigation and editing
• 🔑 SSH-like authentication using public key cryptography
• 🎨 Customizable colors
• 🖥️ Smooth and responsive TUI experience
• 📜 Open protocol for building clients and tools
• 🏠 Self-hostable or use the official instance

Make sure to have a Nerd Font installed and enabled in your terminal.

curl -sS https://eko.kyren.codes/install.sh | sh

There is a flake.nix at the root of this repo, you know what to do.

See Building from source.

Once installed, run eko in a terminal.

Use tab / shift+tab to cycle, ctrl+s to switch between sign-in and sign-up and enter to confirm.

Use an existing SSH ed25519 key (e.g ~/.ssh/id_ed25519) or specify a new path to generate one.

By default, you will connect to the official instance. For self hosting, see Self Hosting.

Press ? to see available keybindings. They are inspired by vim and should feel intuitive.

To ask questions, suggest features, or chat with the community, it's recommended to join the official server.
To do so press a while focused on the network list and paste 7660950781952 into it.

And that's it!

For configuration, self hosting and contributing, read below.

Press s to open your user settings, you can change:

• Your username (pseudonym)
• Your profile description
• Whether non-trusted users can message you

The config is stored in a eko/config.json in your system config directory. This depends on your operating system, press s in eko to view the full path.

Local configuration is saved in eko/config.json within your system's config directory. This path varies by OS, you can press s in eko to see the path.

Configurable options include (but are not limited to):

• Customize colors to create your own theme
• Enable or disable telemtry
• Set a default username for login
• Define the number of spaces per tab
• Enable or disable screen borders

If you like the project and want to show your support, starring it and telling about it to others is the biggest help.

If you wish to support me financially, you can make a one-time donation or a monthly donation over on my patreon.

See contributing

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/kyren223/eko

Build the executable (make sure you have go installed)

cd eko && go build -o ./eko ./cmd/client

Optionally move the executable to somewhere in your path so you can access it from anywhere

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this project. Reach me via:

• Eko: 2102554263552 (focus the Signal pane, press a and paste)
• Discord: Kyren223

Copyright (C) 2025 Kyren223

All source code is licensed under AGPLv3.
All content in the assets directory is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Logos and artwork are copyrighted works of Kyren223.