About us

A small group
making a smaller app.

ALTARA is not a startup with a rocket-ship deck. It is one person, mostly, with help from friends building the chat app we wanted for our own group, gaming nights, and the communities around them.

Why we built it

Most of us had been living inside Discord for years. It worked, but it kept getting louder, busier, full of strangers and slowly turned into a feed instead of a hangout.

ALTARA started in February 2026 because there did not seem to be a real alternative for the kind of space we wanted. Not a Discord clone, not another giant social app, just something a little more personal for friends, gaming groups, and small communities.

From that first prototype, it became a name, a logo, and an app friends could actually use: voice, private messages, community spaces, widgets, and fewer things fighting for attention. That is ALTARA.

The team is small.
(Like, really small.)

One human, plus a rotating cast of friends who help with art, beta tests, copy, and coffee.

Tomás Nunes, founder of ALTARA

Tomás Nunes

@pintice · founder, designer, dev

I play games, run RPGs, and spend way too much time in calls. I wanted a chat app that felt better for friends and gaming nights, so yeah... I built ALTARA.

Built with friends

Art, feedback, testing, and a lot of calls from the people around the app.

Friends and testers

The humans currently breaking things in beta. Love you all.

A few things we
will not compromise on.

Promises to ourselves, in writing, before we forget.

/ 01

Friends first, communities included.

ALTARA is built for friend groups and the communities that grow around them. No infinite feed, no algorithmic noise, just spaces that feel human.

/ 02

Private spaces should feel private.

We are building DMs and calls around privacy-first defaults, without pretending public servers and groups need the same rules.

/ 03

ALTARA+ funds the work.

ALTARA+ is how we plan to fund development while keeping the core app focused and useful.

/ 04

Ship things that feel good.

Soft motion, fast shortcuts, and careful details that make everyday chat better.

Want in?

We are in open beta. Grab the app, bring three friends, and see how it feels.

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