Most of Vommet's code is written with the help of an LLM. Commet doesn't accept LLM contributions, and we respect that: nothing from this fork is ever sent upstream. Please report Vommet bugs on our tracker or in #vommet:nether.im, never on Commet's.
A promise from the maintainer
Miss something from Discord? Complain. I'll fix it.
The whole point of Vommet is to get people off Discord and onto Matrix. That only works if nothing keeps nagging you back. So if you hit a wart, a bug, a missing feature, a UI papercut, anything that makes you wish Vommet were more like Discord or Telegram, come and say so in #vommet:nether.im, and I will personally fix it for you.
That includes the small stuff. "The emoji picker feels wrong" is a perfectly good complaint. You don't need to know what the fix is, or file a ticket, or dress it up. Just tell me what you expected to happen, and what happened instead.
Vommet keeps a public list of every change it makes on top of Commet, so you can see what has been fixed already in VOMMET_CHANGES.md.
Opens fast, even on huge accounts
Vommet supports sliding sync, the modern way for Matrix apps to load your rooms. Instead of downloading everything you've ever joined before showing anything, it fetches the rooms you're looking at first and the rest in the background.
- Turn it on under Settings › Experiments › Sliding sync. It's off by default while we test it.
- Works on homeservers that support it, including matrix.org. On others, Vommet quietly falls back to regular sync.
- Built on our fork of Commet's Matrix SDK, vommet-matrix-dart-sdk.
It's quick to start, too. Like Commet, Vommet is a native Flutter app, not an Electron one, so it doesn't carry a whole web browser around with it. That means a smaller download, less memory, and no second Chromium humming away in the background.
Bring your stickers with you
Moving from Telegram or Signal shouldn't mean leaving your sticker collection behind.
Telegram sticker import
Paste a t.me/addstickers/… link, check the preview, and import the whole pack in one click. Animated Telegram stickers are converted to animated WebP so they play in every Matrix client.
Signal packs work too. Requests go through our own proxy, so your client never talks to Telegram or Signal directly.
Sticker rooms
Your account holds one personal pack. For more, make a sticker room: a private room that only holds packs and stays out of your room list.
Invite friends to a sticker room and they get all its packs too. Manage them under Settings › Account › Emoticons.
One tap to send
Imported packs show up in the sticker picker next to emoji and GIFs, in every room. Pick one and it's sent.
Stickers are ordinary Matrix stickers, so friends on Element and other clients see them too.
Find your people
Matrix is full of public communities. Vommet helps you find them.
Explore rooms
Tap the compass in the sidebar to browse public rooms and spaces on any server, with search and a filter for rooms or spaces.
Tap a result to see more before you join: its rooms, how many people are there, and whether you can read along as a guest. Save the servers you like for next time.
Say it out loud
Sometimes typing is too slow. Send a voice message instead.
Voice messages
Hold the microphone to record and let go to send. Changed your mind? Slide left to cancel.
Voice messages you receive play right in the chat with a waveform, and they work with Element and other Matrix apps both ways.
Pictures, in one piece
Post several pictures at once and Vommet shows them as a single Telegram-style mosaic, not a tall column of images. It works for pictures that arrive through a bridge too.
On your phone, too
The same Vommet on Android: your spaces, voice channels and chats, built for a phone screen.
Talk with your Discord friends
Vommet works great with the Nether Voice Bridge, a separate project that links Discord voice channels with Matrix calls. Everyone shows up as themselves on both sides.
What's different
Everything Commet does, plus these. Most are in tester builds now; the full list is in VOMMET_CHANGES.md.
Single sign-on first
On servers with single sign-on, you get one big sign-in button, and the password form is a tap away.
Voice messages
Hold the mic to record, release to send, slide left to cancel. Received voice messages play with a waveform.
Explore rooms
Browse public rooms and spaces on any server from the compass button in the sidebar, with search and filters.
Gradient themes
Colourful gradient themes, in dark and light. Settings › Appearance › Theme.
Picture mosaics
Several pictures posted together show as one Telegram-style grid instead of a wall of images.
Room banners
Ordinary rooms get banners too, not just spaces.
Tidier spaces
Search when adding existing rooms to a space, and remove a room from a space with a right-click.
Copy a selection
On desktop, copy just the part of a message you selected.
Our own infrastructure
GIF search and sticker import use our proxy, not Commet's servers. Android notifications use UnifiedPush, no Firebase.
Coming next
- Voice isolation on par with Discord: noise suppression, desktop first.
- Screen share with sound on Linux and Windows.
- Voice calls in ordinary text rooms, like Discord.
- Native OIDC sign-in, the way Element X does it.
- Easier installs: a Flatpak repository with updates, and automatic updates on Windows.
- iPhone builds, once we have a Mac to build on.
Download
Vommet is in early testing. Builds are pre-releases: expect rough edges, and tell us what breaks in #vommet:nether.im.
Windows
Portable zip for 64-bit Windows: unzip and run vommet.exe, no installer. It isn't signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will warn: choose "More info", then "Run anyway".
Each release lists SHA-256 checksums next to the files. There are no macOS or iPhone builds yet, from Vommet or from Commet.
Support Commet
Vommet is a small patch stack on top of Commet; the overwhelming majority of the code is theirs. If you like it, consider donating to Commet.