A lightweight Discord client for Windows, Linux and macOS.
The reason for creating lighter-discord is because of the slowness of Discord's underlying electron engine. Instead, lighter-discord uses a system-integrated webview engine, which can decrease RAM usage significantly.
Notifications still work, voice and video also work as well. Extra features such as Push-to-talk hotkeys and custom themes/plugins are in the works.
- Lightweight - lighter-discord is a lightweight Discord client that uses less resources than the official client.
- Cross-platform - lighter-discord is available for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Download the latest version of lighter-discord from the releases page and place the .app file in your Applications folder.
Download the latest version of lighter-discord from the releases page and extract the contents of the zip file to a folder of your choice.
View the Linux installation guide for instructions on how to install lighter-discord on Linux.
- Clone the repository
- Make sure you have the required dependencies installed (see here for more information)
- Install the Tauri CLI:
cargo install tauri-cli(if you already have the Tauri CLI installed, make sure it's up to date) - Open a terminal in the repository directory and run
cargo tauri build - All done! The binaries will be in the
target/releasedirectory