mssgs adds watch parties, and clips that export for TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube

Brummen, the Netherlands, 19 August 2026

mssgs, the independent Dutch group chat application, has added watch parties and clips. A channel can play a video for everyone present at once, and the last minutes of that session can be saved as a clip, edited, and posted without interrupting what is playing.

Watch parties arrived in the desktop application for macOS, Windows and Linux on 15 August 2026 with version 14.0.36. Export of a clip in the formats used by TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube followed on 19 August 2026 with version 14.1.20003.

Playback is shared, not reserved for the host

In a mssgs watch party, every participant can play, pause and scrub by default. The person who started the session holds no special control unless the channel decides otherwise, which reflects how a group of friends actually watches something together.

The channel shows who is currently watching, a party can be given a name when it starts, and the video can be moved into a window of its own carrying the picture, the controls, the viewers and the reactions. A party can also be handed to another device on the same account without the member giving up their place in it.

A time written in the channel becomes a moment that can be clicked, jumping the video to that point. A moment posted for a different video offers to switch the party over to it, or to start one if nothing is playing. When a party ends, the channel receives a recap of everything that was kept from it.

Clips belong to the account, not to one computer

The last minutes of a party can be saved as a clip, trimmed and posted to the channel while the party continues. Clips are attached to the member’s account rather than to the machine that made them, and appear in a Clips tab on their profile regardless of which device recorded them.

A clip can be renamed, given a share link, or have its sharing withdrawn again at any time. A clip is a sequence of pieces rather than a single take, so it can be trimmed, cut in the middle, have a moment repeated, or be joined with pieces from other clips.

Export in the shape each platform plays

A clip can be exported for TikTok, a Snapchat story or YouTube, each in the size that the platform plays full screen rather than as a small strip in the middle of the display. Any clip a member owns can be re-edited and exported again, including one recorded on their phone or one the current computer no longer holds a copy of.

The mssgs mark is rendered into the picture rather than added as an overlay in the player, so it remains present after a clip has been downloaded, edited elsewhere or reposted.

Watching something together is one of the oldest reasons to be in a group at all, and most implementations of it hand the remote control to one person. Sharing playback by default, and letting anyone keep the good part afterwards, is closer to what actually happens in a room.

René van Sweeden, founder of mssgs

Availability

Watch parties and clips are included in mssgs at no cost, in the desktop application for macOS, Windows and Linux. The full release notes are published at mss.gs/en/releases.

mssgs is free to use, carries no advertising, and hosts all data in the European Union. Downloads for every platform are available at mss.gs/en/downloads.