[
{
"title": "Calls & Voice",
"items": [
"Voice rooms with our own Element Call fork on a self-hosted LiveKit SFU",
"Push-to-talk and push-to-deafen, with system-wide hotkeys on the Windows app (work while a game has focus)",
"Mic level meter on the mute button; per-person call volume that's remembered between calls",
"On-device noise suppression: Off, browser-native, or ML (RNNoise, Speex, DTLN, DeepFilterNet 3)",
"In-call soundboard with your own clips, synced across your devices",
"Incoming-call ring with Answer/Decline, join/leave sounds, draggable picture-in-picture window",
"Screenshare fullscreen and audio mute; per-user mic/screenshare bitrate and framerate caps",
"Server-enforced room limits and permissions (max participants, audio-only, no screenshare) for every Matrix client",
"AFK auto-mute after a configurable idle time"
]
},
{
"title": "Messaging",
"items": [
"Threads with a side panel, unread chips, “Mark all read” and per-thread notification overrides",
"Search operators: from:, in:, before:/after: (dates or 7d), has:link|image|video|file, is:pinned",
"Voice messages with 0.75×–2× playback (MSC3245, E2EE)",
"Polls, message scheduling (MSC4140), forwarding, captions and location sharing",
"Pinned messages, saved messages/bookmarks and private notes on people, synced across devices",
"Who-reacted viewer, read receipt avatars, quick reactions on hover",
"GIF picker (Giphy), custom emoji & sticker packs, math/LaTeX (KaTeX)",
"Pasted code is offered as a formatted code block, with the language detected",
"On-device message translation: text never leaves your machine, works in encrypted rooms"
]
},
{
"title": "Media & Links",
"items": [
"Click-to-play inline embeds: YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, TikTok, X, Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky, Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Music, Tidal and more",
"Rich link cards for GitHub, Steam, Wikipedia, IMDb, npm and others; animated GIF previews",
"Full-screen viewer with pinch-zoom, swipe/arrow-key navigation and captions; media gallery for every file shared in a room",
"Optional image compression, folder drag-and-drop upload"
]
},
{
"title": "Privacy & Security",
"items": [
"Private read receipts, hide typing, hide online status",
"Tracking-parameter stripping (utm_*, fbclid, YouTube si= and ~40 more), on your device",
"Opt-in on-device search index for encrypted rooms, wiped on logout",
"Device verification fixes (cross-client emoji SAS) and a per-member session panel"
]
},
{
"title": "Look & Feel",
"items": [
"Lotus Terminal theme, night-light filter, glassmorphism sidebar",
"Animated chat backgrounds and 11 seasonal overlays (all respect reduced motion)",
"629 animated avatar decorations in 28 categories, visible to other Lotus users (MSC4133)",
"Custom status with emoji and auto-clear, Discord-style presence rings",
"Settings sync across devices (theme, layout, notification and privacy preferences)"
]
},
{
"title": "Desktop App",
"items": [
"Windows and Linux (Tauri): installer, AppImage, .deb and Arch package",
"Rich Windows notifications with inline reply; Focus Assist sync",
"Taskbar call controls, jump list and upload progress; tray with call status",
"Stays awake during calls, reconnects on network changes, updates itself"
]
},
{
"title": "Rooms & Moderation",
"items": [
"Knock-to-join with an admin approve/deny panel and live pending-count badge",
"Invite links with QR codes, favourites, room filter, room history export (txt/json/html)",
"Room activity & mod log, stats panel, server ACL editor, policy-list viewer",
"Room widgets, with a permission prompt before a widget may read or send in the room"
]
}
]