YuChat Versions
| Release Date | Version | |
|---|---|---|
| Web | 29/05/26 | 5.9.0 |
| Desktop (Win, Mac, Linux) | 29/05/26 | 5.9.0 |
| Android | 18/04/26 | 3.8.1 |
| iOS | 15/05/26 | 3.9.1 |
Applications for Windows, Mac, Linux and Web
Current version: Downloads
5.9.0
- App Settings: updated interface with sidebar navigation and search
- Workspace settings: one place for notifications, links, channels, folders, chats, members and invites
- Appearance: choose the interface font
- Calls: participant reactions in the PiP widget
- Minor improvements and fixes
5.8.0
- Calls: advanced microphone settings help you fine-tune call audio quality, including automatic level control, echo cancellation, and noise suppression
- Calls: in the YuChat desktop app for macOS and Windows 11, you can now share audio while presenting your screen. Participants hear both your voice and the audio from the shared source, which is useful for presentations, training sessions, and watching materials together
- Messages: text file preview now supports more formats, including XML, YAML, CSV, SQL, JavaScript, Shell, INI, Diff, ICS, and other text files
- Messages: long messages collapse automatically, keeping chat history easier to scan. You can expand the full text inline when needed
- Minor improvements and fixes
5.7.0
- Channels: show an @ indicator next to channels with unread mentions and hide it through the interface setting
- Calls: choose any reaction during a call
- Workspaces: show unread workspaces in a separate top section
- Messages: copy multiple selected messages
- Minor improvements and fixes
5.6.1
- Notifications: notification sounds now respect workspace and channel settings, so sound plays only for allowed events instead of every new message
- App settings: redesigned Notifications section — choose notification and incoming call sounds, mute sounds during calls, and control push notification content
- App settings: new app icon options — unread badge for macOS and Windows, plus Dock bounce mode for macOS
- Workspaces: workspace notification settings are now accessible from the context menu
- Audio & Video: Mirror my video flips the local camera preview without changing what other participants see
- Messages: forward one or more messages from threads
- Messages: create polls from the editor's attachment menu
- Minor improvements and fixes
5.5.0
- Messages: highlight your own messages
- Minor improvements and fixes
5.4.0
- Push notifications: control what's shown in notification previews
- Notification banner: a prompt to enable push notifications on first sign-in
- Minor improvements and fixes
5.3.0
- Media: gallery view for images in messages
- Push notifications: channel name now appears in the notification
- Minor improvements and fixes
5.2.0
- Themes: preset themes, custom themes, and import from other messengers
- Threads: full-screen view, close with Esc, double-click to start a thread, redesigned threads list
- Contacts: scheduled calls available in the main organization workspace
- Calls: screen stays awake during active calls
- Minor improvements and fixes
5.1.0
- Personal chats: Schedule a call option in the context menu
- Channels: Move to folder option in the context menu
- Navigation: keyboard shortcuts for moving through channel and chat lists
- App settings: Hide scrollbars option
5.0.0
- Settings: theme presets with custom theme creation
- Navigation: "Back", "Forward", and "History" controls in the main app interface, plus keyboard shortcuts
- Calls: pin a participant in the foreground and screen-sharing controls in Picture-in-Picture mode
- Downloads: a downloads manager for tracking and managing files, accessible from the main interface and from the Navigation section of the app menu
- Audio settings: output device selection now applies to all app sounds, including notifications and media playback
- Message editor: nested lists, empty table cells, and a horizontal divider
- Notifications: support for the system Do Not Disturb status (focus mode)
- Files: built-in Markdown preview
- Call diagnostics: WebRTC diagnostics added under Application menu → Help → Troubleshooting
- Minor improvements and fixes
4.8.0
- Workspace: new Notifications section
- Workspace: My Calls is now reorganized — All Calls, Scheduled Calls, Call by Link, and Rooms in one place
- App settings: interface, editor, calls, and audio/video settings are now in separate sections
- Interface settings: option to pin the workspace navigation panel at the top of the app
- Call settings: new Join calls with incoming audio muted option and a Mute incoming audio button in the call control panel
- Editor settings: configure the Enter key to either send the message or insert a new line
- Message context menu: new Open Link option
- Channels and chats: draft indicator now appears in the main list when you have unsent messages
- Minor improvements and fixes
Android
Current version: Rustore, Google Play, AppGallery
3.8.1
- Channels: new channel notification settings dialog
- Notifications: more reliable jump to the right chat or channel when tapping a push notification
- Notifications: cleaner text rendering in message previews and notifications
- Messages: send images and other rich content directly from the Android system keyboard
- Messages: improved link preview display
- Sharing: smoother workspace selection when sending content to YuChat from other apps
- Faster data sync after reconnection and more stable notifications
- Fixed microphone access issues during conferences
- Stability and performance improvements
3.7.0
- Polls in chats: create, vote, and view results
- GIFs with animated previews
- Faster data sync on sign-in and reconnect
- Improved Cyrillic search in @mentions
- Server address is preserved after sign-out
- Stability and performance improvements
3.6.0
- Redesigned call interface
- Improved call notifications
- Raise and lower your hand during a call
- Audio cue when participants join or leave a conference
- More reliable calls
- Large emoji support
- Overall stability and performance improvements
3.5.1
- Fixed push notification sync
- Improved call reconnection
- Fixed screen sharing and camera display
3.5.0
- Mentions in chats are now highlighted
- Fixed microphone issues on Samsung devices
- More reliable calls during network interruptions
- Performance and stability improvements
3.4.0
- Long-press to copy links from chat messages
- Tap-to-call on phone numbers in profile cards
- Additional unread indicator in the main menu
- Improved push notification handling
- Channels tab now opens by default when switching workspaces
- Faster data sync
- Performance and stability improvements
iOS
Current version: App Store
3.9.1
- Long messages now collapse with Show more / Show less in chats, threads, and the Threads list
- iPhone landscape is smoother across chats, rosters, recordings, and calls — layouts respect notches, and exiting a chat during a call works again
- Forwarding got simpler: pick a recipient from a single list of pinned and recent chats, and forwarded thread roots now show their content in the Threads list
- Paste copied images straight into the message field, and code blocks now highlight strings, comments, and annotations more accurately
- Media and attachments are more reliable after a session refresh, including cold-start image loads and long uploads or downloads
- Sync and reconnects are steadier: stuck unread badges after marking chats read, stray personal chats in the roster, reconnects after session changes, and resuming active calls after app launch
3.9.0
- Schedule messages in chats, review queued messages, and send, edit, reschedule, copy, or delete them later
- A redesigned call screen with Liquid Glass styling, smoother participant grid and paging, reactions, raised hands, and moderator controls
- Open personal chats, threads, and recordings directly from shared YuChat links, with direct-chat recordings now opening in the right conversation
- More reliable media sharing and playback, including fixes for photo uploads and videos that failed to open or recover after loading issues
- Better workspace and channel navigation with an unread dot for other workspaces, muted workspaces that stay visible in the roster, bots in channel member lists, and channels that move up after new activity
- Faster, more reliable syncing and chat updates, with fixes for reconnects after token refresh, stale thread badges after archiving, chats stuck loading, and thread preview crashes
3.8.0
- Refreshed the iOS 26 experience with Liquid Glass updates across navigation, tabs, chat surfaces, and video controls
- Threads and Recordings now open faster from cache, with smoother background refresh and improved pagination
- Better thread and reply experience, including restored image and GIF previews in replies, initials for thread avatars, corrected message order, and cleaner parent-message status
- Clearer privacy and activity settings with updated Screen Capture Protection wording and Activity Indicators that reflect organization settings
- More accurate unread and call indicators, with better badge counts for direct messages and muted chats, and call status that clears correctly after calls end
- Improved reliability for syncing and reconnects, including fixes for disappearing new messages, connection recovery, and several crash categories
3.7.0
- More reliable recovery after app updates, relaunches, and sign-out
- Forwarding now follows chat and workspace permissions
- Service messages now show member names more reliably
3.6.0
- Polls in chats: create them, vote, see live results, and view voters
- Copy message links and jump straight to the right message from shared links
- Easier sharing and forwarding, including threads, a better destination picker, and source previews
- New Preferences screen with controls for sync progress, typing indicators, and screen protection status
- Better markdown display, including improved support for tables in messages and previews
- Faster startup, smoother syncing, and many fixes for reconnects, badges, threads, and read status
3.5.0
- GIF attachment support in chats
- Inline images, GIFs, and videos
- Cleaner, smoother calling experience
- Broader deep link support, including threads
- Faster startup and more reliable onboarding recovery
- Lots of UI and stability improvements
3.4.0
- Ability to preview public channels
- Copy links from chat messages with long tap
- Proper input field layout above keyboard on iOS 26
- Keep the last used server address in corporate login
- Search by department and position in address book
- Lots of other improvements
3.3.0
- Grouping chats and channels into folders
- Brand new workspace picker for sharing and forwarding
- Improved UI for displaying reactions
- Pinch to zoom for screen sharing on calls
- Stability and performance improvements
3.2.0
- Company's address book
- Buttons in chat messages (for bots)
- Session expiration notifications
- Conference optimizations
- Various bug fixes
Archive
Windows, Mac, Linux and Web
4.7.0
- Workspaces: display of workspaces you're invited to at the top of the list
- Chats: show drafts in the roster
- Search: added context menu for found messages and call recordings in search results
- Calls: disable screen dimming during active call
- Calls: correct display of virtual audio devices in device list and camera initialization optimization with background replacement during call
- Messages: optimized scroll behavior in chats for more predictable message display
- Multiple minor improvements and fixes
4.6.0
- Personal chats: ability to enable display of personal chats in any workspace in app settings
- Messages: syntax highlighting in code blocks in messages
- Address book: ability to search for colleagues by department and position
- Folders: ability to access folder settings (editing) via context menu
4.5.1
- Message forwarding: ability to use mentions when forwarding messages
- Multiple minor fixes and improvements
4.5.0
- Message editor: ability to switch between WYSIWYG editor version and classic Markdown version both in app settings and in the editor itself
- Personal chats: ability to enable display of unread personal chats in any workspace
- Folders: ability to access folder settings via context menu
- Threads: ability to subscribe and unsubscribe from threads
- Personal chats: ability to Hide chat / Show chat
- Interface settings: added options to app settings:
- disable app icon display in system tray (enabled by default)
- change app window scale
4.4.0
- Emoji: messages containing only emoji are now displayed enlarged
- Call rooms: added ability to edit call room
- Calls: start a call using keyboard shortcuts
- Message editor: multiple improvements and optimizations
4.3.1
- Folders for personal chats: ability to group personal chats into folders
- Emoji: improved emoji fonts with ability to switch to system fonts in app settings
- Message editor: multiple improvements when working with text, code, links and formatting
4.2.0
- Profile: links in "About me" section are now clickable, improving navigation convenience
- Message editor: improved pasting of content consisting of Markdown markup and code blocks, as well as pasting images copied from Safari
- Participant search: consideration of "е" and "ё" character equality when searching for participants
- UX: Changed mention text color in dark theme for improved readability
- Channel context menu: added Channel Settings option
4.1.0
- Message editor: Toolbar for message content formatting
- Message editor: implemented Context Menu support for Desktop application
- User mention (@mention) highlighting in chat history for quick orientation and finding important messages
- Channel Menu: new channel management screen
- Call rooms: added access control
4.0.0
- Updated message editor: WYSIWYG - now all changes are displayed immediately while typing, making message creation and formatting even more convenient and faster
- Call rooms: space for calls that can be created in advance and used for regular or one-time meetings
- Outlook add-in: add-in for creating YuChat call rooms directly from Outlook
- Picture-in-Picture mode settings: PiP settings block added to app settings in Calls section
- Chat navigation: floating date when scrolling chat, as well as full date format on hovering over message time
- Context menu for channels in channel list: expanded with additional options
- App update: update progress display in interface
App menu: added Troubleshooting section
3.7.0
- Scheduled messages: ability to schedule message sending
- Support for Picture-in-Picture mode for calls in desktop app
- Improved stability of message history navigation in chats
3.6.2
- Folders for channel grouping: ability to create, edit and delete folders for convenient channel organization
- Improved code pasting in message editor
- App operation optimization:
- switching to app when opening push notifications
- list updates
- audio device switching
3.5.1
- Ability to display call in Picture-in-Picture mode
- Ability to scale viewing area during screen sharing
- Ability to insert table into editor and display tables in messages
- Multiple minor improvements and fixes
3.4.2
- Automatic message re-sending when network becomes available
- Improvements in SSO login/logout interface
- Release notes display in web version
- App autostart in Linux OS
- Shared Links now support permanent access
3.4.1
3.4.0
- Search improvement: transliteration support
- Call settings: Ability to start personal call as private by default
- Updated user profile: add personal status and information about yourself
- Support for HTML content pasting with automatic conversion to Markdown
- Russian language support when adding emoji as text
- Multiple small but important improvements and fixes
3.3.0
- Call reactions
- Ability to delete multiple messages
- Ability to paste file (image, video, document) from clipboard in text editor
- Ability to clear app cache
- User experience improvements when using calls: confirmation request for Ending group call and for Starting call in channel with 10+ participants
- Ability to specify time period when searching messages and meeting minutes in call recordings
- Ability to switch line break method in text editor in app settings
- For desktop version ability to enable autostart in app settings at OS startup
3.2.2
- MSI package installation to Program Files directory
- Improvements in notification delivery
- Minor fixes and improvements
3.2.1
- Improved Keycloak authorization stability
- Minor fixes
3.2.0
- Ability to insert emoji in message text (inline-emoji)
- Improved message context menu: options dynamically change depending on context — if part of text is selected, Copy selected text option is available; if message contains link - Copy link option (without need for selection)
- Improved public call list display in main Workspace menu
- In Navigation section in main app menu
added ability to switch between Teams
- Multiple minor fixes
3.1.0
- Ability to configure notifications at OS level
- Ability to raise hand during call
- Enhanced built-in image viewer
- Ability to manage all Channels, Personal chats, including Archived within Workspace
- Expanded Navigation section in main app menu
- Ability to quickly navigate to channel or personal chat
- Ability to switch search types: global search and context search
- Ability to view and save call text transcripts in PDF format in preview window
info
After app update, system may identify it as new, requiring re-granting of all necessary permissions. This is due to minor changes in app configuration.
3.0.0
- Ability to schedule regular calls in channels and personal
- Extended set of emoji for reactions 🎉
- Ability to pin important messages in channels and personal chats
- Ability to manage public links
- Ability to view active devices with current and other sessions
2.14.0
- Display of participant count in Workspace settings
- Display of chat with user removed from Workspace
- Channels and chats with disabled notifications are not displayed in Unread section
- Ability to assign Workspace Owner role to any Workspace participant
- Correct fullscreen mode display
- Fixed named link editing
- Improved app stability
2.13.0
- Ability to broadcast computer audio in call
- Workspace name in call notification
- Preserving channel and chat folder state when navigating between workspaces
- "Help" button in app header
- Multiple minor fixes
2.12.0
- Unread folder in roster
- Desktop app header redesign
- Search call added to desktop app menu
- New settings screen for workspace
- Deletion of user messages by channel administrators
2.11.0
- Display organization address book in separate window
- User password change form
- Ability to invite guests to workspace
- Cursor change when hovering over file with in-app preview capability
- User profile card display in search screen
2.10.0
- Preview for small text files
- Support for disabling some functionality at workspace level
- Navigate to message on mention notification click
- Improvements for message forwarding
- Filter enabled indicator display in search
2.9.1
- Join public call within app
- Ability to forward call recording within workspace (recording becomes searchable)
- PPT/x file preview capability
- Network loss and reconnect visualization
- Improved reconnect stability on Linux
2.8.0
- Fixes in message markdown
- Ability to manage call participants (mute/unmute microphone, suggest turning on camera, remove from call)
- Ability to forward messages to other workspaces
- Office document preview within app
- Your video is not shown to colleagues until virtual background or background blur is initialized
2.7.0
- Ability to zoom app interface via menu
- No red indicator shown for chats with disabled notifications
- Navigation menu in apps
- Ability to invite any user to current call
- Fixes for message sending in poor network conditions
Android
3.3.0
- Support for folders for channels and personal chats
- Ability to raise and lower hand during a call
- Ability to view public channels without joining them
- Improved audio quality during calls
- Improvements in push notification handling
- Enhanced notification settings support
3.2.0
- Support for folders for channels and personal chats
- Ability to raise and lower hand during a call
- View public channels without joining them
- Improved audio quality during calls
- Improvements in push notification handling
- Enhanced notification settings support
3.1.0
- Improvements in push notifications
- Optimization of presence status handling
- Performance and stability improvements
3.0.1
- Contacts: personal chats, personal calls and organization address book
- Improved re-authorization process
- Improved channel list display
- Authentication screen localization
3.0.0
- Ability to save files to public Downloads folder
- Share: improved sending files from system apps to YuChat
- Optimized channel and chat list display
- Performance and stability improvements
2.13.2
- Improved notification stability
- Added GIF image support in chat
- Performance and stability improvements
2.12.1
- Updated controls to Material 3
- Ability to switch between private and public call mode
- Improved navigation and message forwarding between workspaces
- Search improvement: address book search is now case-insensitive
- Forced logout notification display
- Performance and stability improvements
2.11.0
- Extended user profile: additional "About me" field and ability to set custom status with emoji
- Voice message support
- Performance improvements
- Multiple minor improvements
2.10.1
- Support for selecting any emoji for reactions
- Notification improvements
- Multiple minor improvements
2.9.0
- Added support for new emoji
- Correct display of joined user statuses
- File loading and sharing fixes
- Paginated call recording loading
- Event batch processing fix
- Query optimization
- Performance improvements
2.8.0
- Ability to share content from other apps via system "Share" integration - users can select YuChat in list of available apps for sending content
- Ability to rename channels
- Improved app stability
2.7.1
- Guest role support in workspace
- Organization address book displayed at top of all workspaces
- Multiple minor fixes
2.6.3
- Network quality display during call
- Improvements in displaying chats with disabled notifications
- Fullscreen incoming call notification support
- Support for link to join new workspace
- Technical improvements and multiple minor fixes
2.5.0
- Automatic message re-sending on network loss
- Transcript download from Call Recordings screen
- Reply to message with voice note
- Role model support in call
- Forward messages to another workspace
2.4.0
- Call protocol display in app
- Asynchronous message forwarding
- "Call by my link" support in app
- Image viewing in app
2.3.0
- Message forwarding within one workspace
- Announcement channel support in app
- Incoming call dismissal when declined on another device
- Push notification delivery improvements
iOS
3.1.0
- Improved stability
- Enhanced error handling
- Multiple other fixes
3.0.0
- Introduction of organizations concept
- Unified personal chats and calls within organizations
- Ability to invite participants from organization address book
- More convenient participant search
- Multiple other fixes and stability improvements
- Localization improvements
2.14.1
- Panel for quick access to current conference
- New code block styling
- Syntax highlighting
- Improved call link handling
- Performance improvements
- Multiple other fixes
2.13.0
- Ability to select, forward and delete multiple messages at once
- Display of custom user statuses and biography field in profiles
- Call invitation link handling
- Improved developer contact options
- Various bug fixes
2.12.1
- Bug fixes
2.12.0
- Corporate login improvements
- Improved stability
- Bug fixes
2.11.0
- Reaction selection from extended emoji set
- Recently used reactions list
- Bug fixes
2.10.0
- Extended emoji set display in reactions 🎉
- Call protocol formatting
- Performance improvements
2.9.0
- Improved reconnect in poor network conditions
- Correct user profile display in forwarded messages
2.8.0
- Bug fixes on threads screen
- Correct display of existing workspaces when logging into app
2.7.0
- App loading speed optimization
- Minor fixes
2.6.1
- Guest user role display in app
- Chat admin can delete user messages
- Workspace sorting order support
- Minor fixes
2.6.0
- Ability to search for users in organization
- Organization address book displayed at top of all workspaces
- Extended workspace permission set support
2.5.3
- Ability to send messages to YuChat from other apps
- RED codec usage for low bandwidth networks
- Role model support in calls
- In-app call link handling support
2.4.0
- Don't count unread counter for chats with disabled notifications
- Improved message delivery stability in poor network conditions
- Several technical improvements and fixes
2.3.0
- Improvements in displaying chats with disabled notifications
- Thread protocol display and generation in app
- Display only "my" threads
- Ability to edit message with image