Everything in the box
Waffle replaces your chat app and the AI subscriptions next to it. Here is the honest, complete list of what ships today.
Messaging
- Markdown with code blocks and syntax highlighting
- Spoilers, blockquotes, tables, and lists
- Mentions, with @everyone and online-only @here
- Reactions with any emoji, plus custom team emoji
- Threads on any message
- Replies with inline previews
- Edit and delete, with a clean edited marker
- File uploads with image thumbnails
- Drag and drop or paste to upload
Waffle Tickets
- One ticket workspace owned by an enabled text channel in a private workspace
- Create a ticket from a message with source provenance
- Board and List views over the same dataset
- Status, priority, assignee, start date, and due date
- Search plus status, priority, and assignee filters
- Route-backed ticket detail with chronological activity
- Archive and restore controls for channel managers
- Reviewed Waffle AI import proposals when managers opt in
Finding things
- Full text search across channels and DMs
- Jump to any result in context
- Quick switcher for channels and people
- Catch me up: an AI summary of what you missed
- Saved messages and reminders
- Scheduled send
- Calm unreads: quiet pills, red badges only for mentions
- Per-channel notification control and muting
Voice
- One-click voice channels
- Speaking rings on avatars
- Screen share
- Per-person playback volume
- Push to talk
- Mute and deafen
- Join and leave chimes
- Occupants visible to the whole team
Appearance
- Eight theme presets over light and dark
- One frosted glass sidebar, always exactly one
- Cozy and compact density
- Chat font scaling
- High contrast mode
- Reduced motion honored everywhere, shaders included
Mobile
- A real mobile layout, not a shrunken desktop
- Bottom tab bar and swipe-out channel drawer
- Long-press action sheets
- Swipe to reply
- Keyboard-aware composer docking
- Voice controls in the drawer
Admin and control
- Owner and admin roles with granular permissions
- Private channels and channel categories
- Archive channels without losing history
- Invite links
- Custom emoji management
- Waffle AI on or off per channel, with per-channel personas
- Connector scoping per channel
Public communities
- Community servers: the public kind of Waffle team, free
- A public directory with search, categories, and sorting
- A public page for your community at a handle you choose
- Join by link, or require an invite to pause a raid
- Rules a new member accepts before posting
- Email verified and minimum account age join requirements
- Timeouts and bans, with a reason the member is shown
- Member reports in a moderation queue
- Keyword filters, a mention cap, and a lockdown control
- No Waffle AI in a community server
Running something public rather than something private? Waffle community servers are free for up to 500 members and have no Waffle AI.
Give your team its extra member.
Waffle is in early access. Creating a team takes about two minutes, and Waffle AI is ready the moment you do.