Use Cases

mssgs for your group

Friends planning Friday, a squad clipping its best round, a club running its season, a creator and their fans, a family and a dev team. Here is what each of them does with mssgs, and with which features.

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Friend groups

Plan Friday without forty messages

Give your friends a community of your own: a channel for plans, a photo channel that fills up like an album, and a voice channel to drop into whenever. A poll settles the plan, and whoever is bored first starts a game right in the chat.

How communities work
plans
Sanne16:02
Friday at mine? I'll make pizza.
Mo16:04
In! And after dinner?
Sanne16:05
Poll
Friday after pizza?
Select one answer
Watch party: the new episode4 votes57%
Board games2 votes29%
Karaoke1 vote14%
7 votes·Ends in 3h
A poll in a friend group's channel. Everyone sees the votes come in, before and after they vote.
  • A place of your own Text, voice and photo channels, set up the way your group talks. Friends join with an invite link or a QR code.
  • Polls and events A question with up to ten answers and a closing time, or an event everyone answers with Going, Maybe or Can't.
  • Games in the chat Four in a Row, Battleship, Word Guesser and six more. A friend without an account joins with a guest link.
  • Just for your friends Friends-only stories, a photostrip with a frame from each of you every day, and your location for the friends you pick.

Gaming communities

Your squad's base, even in the middle of a match

Voice channels for the squad, a channel for clips and one for watch parties. While you play, the desktop app puts your call and the latest chat on top of the game, and one key saves the last stretch of what just happened.

See the games
Squad
RORook
VE
MI
TA
MIMira#clips
that last round, somebody clip it
VEVex#squad
regroup at the bridge
Clipping the gamelast 1:30 readySave clip
The desktop app's overlay on top of a game: who is talking, the latest chat and clip mode's Save button.
  • Voice with a soundboard Push to talk, eight built-in sounds, your server's own sounds and an entrance sound when you join.
  • Overlay and clip mode Who is talking and the latest messages on top of your game. Clip mode keeps the last stretch of a window or screen, at 1080p and 60 fps.
  • Watch parties A link or your own video, in sync for everyone. The host controls playback, and anyone can clip the last seconds.
  • Between matches Nine built-in games for the wait, and screen sharing at 60 frames a second in full HD.

Clubs & teams

Run the whole season from one place

A football club, a choir or a project team: a channel per team and committee, roles that decide who sees what, and the polls and reminders that used to take a dozen group chats. A bot can post the match day for you.

How roles and channels work
first-team
Coach Erik19:12
Thursday's training moves to field 2, the main pitch is being mowed.
System
Message from Club bot
Match day: Saturday
Kick-off
14:30
Meet
13:45 at the clubhouse
Available
11 of 16
19:30
The coach's message and the club bot's match-day card, with buttons, in the team's own channel.
  • A channel per team Text, voice, photo, suggestion and announcement channels in categories, plus a board channel only the board can see.
  • Roles with real permissions Groups like Board, Coach and Member, each with a colour and its own rights, down to who may post a poll.
  • Polls, events and reminders A poll with a closing time, an event people answer, and a reminder that repeats every week.
  • Bots and slash commands Members type /standup or /poll and your community decides what happens. A webhook posts results straight into a channel.

Creators

Post for your fans, and let them back you

Post photos and stories from your phone, keep a community where fans talk to you and to each other, and put up a tip jar when you are saving for something. The credits fans gift in the comments on your posts are your creator earnings.

For creators
announcements
Lotte20:41
The old mic crackles on every stream. Time for a new one!
Lotte’s tip jar
New studio mic
3,450of 5,000 credits
501005001,000
Top donations
1MOmo_rider1,000
2SAsanne500
3JUjules_k250
and 14 more
A tip jar in a creator's channel: the goal, one-tap amounts and who gave the most.
  • Posts, stories and clips Post to your feed and a public story from the iPhone or Android app, and share clips on your profile with a public link.
  • Tip jars A goal, a reason and tip buttons. Fans put in credits with one tap, and the card shows the top donations.
  • Creator payout Verified creators can have their creator earnings paid out to a bank account, at 1,500 credits per euro from €150.
  • A community around you An announcement channel only you and the people you pick can post in, which other communities can follow.

Family

Stay close, without reading along

A family community for the groceries, the holidays and the everyday stuff. When a child gets their own account, the Parent Center shows a parent the shape of their week: who is in it and how long they were connected. Never their messages.

How the Parent Center works
Parent CenterFamily links and safety
N@noorLinked since 12 August 2026
You can see who your child talks to and how long they are connected — never the contents of their messages.
Friends
L@larsY@yaraS@sem
Connected time
DayConnectedActive2026-10-021h 12m34m2026-10-012h 05m51m
Location sharingLocation sharing is on
The Parent Center's overview of one child: who, how long and how far, without a single message.
  • A link the child asks for The child sends a request with the parent's connect code. Nothing is shared until the parent accepts, and either of you can end it.
  • What a parent sees Who the child talks to, how long they were connected each day, and how far their location sharing reaches. Never the messages, never where they are.
  • Safer defaults for minors New conversations, joining communities, posting publicly and location sharing stay off until a parent link is active.
  • Reminders for the household Bins out every Tuesday: one reminder for the chats and people you pick, repeated daily, weekly or monthly.

Developers

Your tools and your AI, in the channel your team already uses

Post deploys and alerts with a webhook, give the team slash commands, or build a bot with cards and buttons. Let Claude, Cursor or Codex read and reply through the MCP server in the desktop app, or offer your own computer as an agent the team hands tasks to.

Developer docs
website
Anna10:12
@build-mac [website] the sign-up button overlaps the footer on small phones, can you take a look?
build-mac
PR open
Project:website
Fix the sign-up button overlapping the footer on small phones
Moved the button back into the form and checked it at 320, 360 and 390 px wide. The pull request is ready for review.
System
Message from GitHub
Pull request #48 opened
Open

Fix the sign-up button on small phones

10:31
+18-6
2 files
A task handed to an agent with a mention, and the pull request it opened, posted by the GitHub integration.
  • Bots with cards and buttons Cards with fields, a status pill and buttons that call your service and update the card in place.
  • Webhooks and slash commands An incoming webhook posts into a channel. A /command calls your web service and posts the answer.
  • MCP for your AI tools Built into the desktop app: off until you switch it on, read-only until you allow sending, and only for the channels you expose.
  • Agents on your own computer Mention an agent in a channel to hand it a task. It runs on that computer, not on mssgs servers, and reports back on a card.

And everyone in between

Study groups

A channel per subject, files in the chat, and search across the whole community the night before the exam. Domain Only keeps it to your school's email addresses.

Work

Keep a work account next to your personal one and switch with one tap. Coming from Slack or Teams? See how mssgs compares.

Moving your group over

Rebuild your channel list from a screenshot of the app you are leaving, and see how mssgs compares with Discord and Slack.

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