Games come and go — your crew doesn't. Cranix One is the voice-and-text home base your group actually owns: still there when you've moved on to the next co-op obsession, and the one after that. No ads, no ID scans, and no company that can buy it, mine it, or shut it down.
Reserve your squad's home — and bring 4–8 friends. We invite whole crews, not scattered strangers.
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Most chat apps quietly treat your group as numbers — something to grow, measure, and eventually sell ads against. Cranix One works the other way round: the people, the chats, and the years of history are yours. Not ours, and not whoever might buy us later.
Make a den for your crew, or join one you're invited to. Your in-jokes, clips, and years of history are kept safe and stay yours — export the lot any time, and walk away with everything if you ever want to.
You've watched it happen: the app your crew lived in gets acquired, stuffed with ads, or shut down. Your den's data isn't ours to sell, mine, or bury in ads — and you can export it and leave whenever you like. Cranix is independent, with nothing here for an acquirer to strip-mine. When the game changes, your home doesn't.
Small-group voice, video, and screen share, tuned for the handful of people who actually show up — not 500-member ghost dens. A 5-person room feels full with 5 people. It's not a ghost town; it's your living room.
Turn on end-to-end encryption and your DMs are unreadable to anyone but you and the person you're talking to — including us. No identity checks to log in, no data harvesting, nothing sold to advertisers.
Roles and per-channel permissions, kick/ban/timeout, an audit log, member verification, and anti-raid protection — so your space stays the way your people like it.
A single Cranix account works across Cranix One and the rest of the ecosystem. Cranix runs the sign-in and keeps your den’s data safe and out of the ad machine — and it stays yours to export and take with you.
Cranix One is at its best for the groups that come back week after week — the ones with in-jokes, running bits, and a shared history worth keeping, no matter which game is in rotation.
Your clan, squad, or co-op group deserves a base that outlives the current obsession. Small-group voice for the people you actually play with — none of the noise, spam raids, or data-hunger of the big platforms.
The five of you who jump into whatever's new this month. Keep one home for all of it — voice, text, and a clips channel that turns last night's chaos into the connective tissue between game nights.
Give a shared interest a home you control: organised channels, roles and permissions, and moderation that keeps it the way your members like it. Your community, your rules — not a platform's.
Cranix One is in private beta, built in the open — because renting your friend group's home from a company with an IPO to chase gets old. It's a polished app today — a desktop build (Windows, macOS, Linux) where you're playing anyway, and a browser version at cranix.app for everywhere else; a mobile companion comes after the desktop experience is proven, not before. Self-hosting your own den — running it on your hardware — is on the roadmap for people who want total control; today Cranix keeps your den safe so you don't have to. We'd rather under-promise and ship. Reserve your spot above, bring your crew, and we'll invite you together when it opens up.