Root: Community Chat & Voice: iPhone vs Android
Root: Community Chat & Voice gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Root: Community Chat & Voice by Root Communications, Inc is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Rating
4.1 ★
933 ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#81
Android · 
Communication Free
Communication FreeMeasured
App Store
App details
App ID
6742028281
Publisher
Root Communications Incorporated
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Jul 2025
1 year on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
Languages
8
EN FR DE IT PL PT ES TR
Size
164 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.rootapp.mobile
Publisher
ROOT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Teen
Root: Community Chat & Voice downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 100+ | 10k+ |
| Google Play | 1k+ | 100k+ Measured |
| Total | 1k+ Confidence | 100k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
iPhone: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Root: Community Chat & Voice's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.3 ★ | 141 |
| Google Play | 4.1 ★ | 792 184 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.1 ★ weighted by ratings | 933 |
What users say about Root: Community Chat & Voice
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (68% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about login and account problems, and crashes and bugs.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Everything was easy to understand”
- Features & content: “And I’d like to have soundboard options”
- Price & subscription: “It’s so nice to have an alternative to discord that allows me to send images and videos without needing a subscription”
- Updates: “- the devs consistently update!”
Common complaints
- Login & account: “I got logged out of my account, and now I can’t get back in”
- Crashes & bugs: “Glitchy, drops calls randomly, and sometimes can’t join a call”
- Features & content: “Lacking in Accessability Features”
- Privacy & data: “I checked my spam folder, and nothing is there”
About Root: Community Chat & Voice
Root is community chat with voice and video calls, screen share, themes, and apps, all in one place. Chat in channels, hop into a call with your group, and add apps to enhance your community experience.
FREE PROFILE AND THEME CUSTOMIZATION
No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own.
VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE
Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up.
APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid.
BRING YOUR SERVER
Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.
FREE PROFILE AND THEME CUSTOMIZATION
No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own.
VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE
Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up.
APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid.
BRING YOUR SERVER
Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.
Root: Community Chat & Voice iPhone
Root: Community Chat & Voice gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Root: Community Chat & Voice is #146 in Social Networking Free in Germany and charting in 7 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperRoot Communications, Inc
CategorySocial Networking
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.3 (141)
Version0.9.39
Age rating17+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
Rating
4.3 ★
141 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#146
Social Networking FreeMeasured
Root: Community Chat & Voice on the App Store
App details
App ID
6742028281
Publisher
Root Communications Incorporated
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Jul 2025
1 year on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 16.4+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
Languages
8
EN FR DE IT PL PT ES TR
Size
164 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
Root: Community Chat & Voice downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Root: Community Chat & Voice's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | Social NetworkingFree | #146 |
 France | Social NetworkingFree | #186 |
 Italy | Social NetworkingFree | #175 |
 Netherlands | Social NetworkingFree | #113 |
| Sweden | Social NetworkingFree | #85 |
 Poland | Social NetworkingFree | #125 |
 Thailand | Social NetworkingFree | #198 |
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Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.3 ★
141 ratings
Measured
Ratings
141
Measured
What users say about Root: Community Chat & Voice
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (68% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about login and account problems, and crashes and bugs.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Everything was easy to understand”
- Features & content: “And I’d like to have soundboard options”
- Price & subscription: “It’s so nice to have an alternative to discord that allows me to send images and videos without needing a subscription”
- Updates: “- the devs consistently update!”
Common complaints
- Login & account: “I got logged out of my account, and now I can’t get back in”
- Crashes & bugs: “Glitchy, drops calls randomly, and sometimes can’t join a call”
- Features & content: “Lacking in Accessability Features”
- Privacy & data: “I checked my spam folder, and nothing is there”
About Root: Community Chat & Voice
Root is community chat with voice and video calls, screen share, themes, and apps, all in one place. Chat in channels, hop into a call with your group, and add apps to enhance your community experience.
FREE PROFILE AND THEME CUSTOMIZATION
No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own.
VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE
Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up.
APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid.
BRING YOUR SERVER
Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.
FREE PROFILE AND THEME CUSTOMIZATION
No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own.
VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE
Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up.
APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid.
BRING YOUR SERVER
Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.
Latest updates
0.9.39
This update brings Root to seven more languages and lets you set each person's volume in a call.
- Root is now available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Polish and Turkish.
- See what's new after each update, and find past notes in Settings > About.
- Set each person's voice and screen share volume in a call.
- Tap a profile picture or banner to see it full screen.
- Links to channels, messages and apps now show as chips.
- Theme previews now show every background color.
- Developer mode moved to Settings > Advanced, matching desktop.
- Fixed busy channels jumping back into older messages.
- Fixed voice calls stuck connecting on some iPhones.
- Fixed leaving a call taking you to the community home.
- Fixed messages sometimes sending only partly.
- Fixed photos showing sideways.
- Fixed apps playing sound after you close them.
- Fixed Files crashing when importing a theme.
0.9.38
This update lets you share your screen from a call, install first-party apps, and set up a community from a Discord template.
-Share your screen from a call, including the sound from the app you're showing.
-Import a Discord server template when you create a community.
-Brings the app store to mobile for first-party app installation.
-Continue a call on your phone when you're already in it on another device.
-Swipe a message left to reply.
-Tap an image and it opens out of its thumbnail. Drag it away in any direction to close it.
-Messages with several images now lay out in a grid.
-Reorder roles from Roles settings.
-Improved color picker for community and role colors
-Turn on Developer mode in Settings > General to copy IDs and ban by user ID.
-Root now uses far less storage on iPhone.
-Message area performance improvements.
-Fixed calls failing to join until you restarted the app.
-Fixed the Everyone role disappearing from role settings.
-Fixed custom emoji showing as text while loading.
-Fixed dates using the wrong calendar.
0.9.37
This update brings custom themes, favorite GIFs and text chat in voice channels. As well as many performance improvements
- New OLED, gradient and custom themes, synced to your account.
- Long-press any GIF to save it to your Favorites.
-Voice channels now have text chat, even before you join the call.
- Screen shares start only when you tap Watch Stream, which saves data.
- Mute and deafen now carry over to your next call.
- Images open right away and don't download again.
- Profile edits now say why they failed, like too many changes in a row.
- Fixed wide or tall custom emoji looking squished.
- Fixed reordered channels moving back to their old place.
- Fixed closed apps popping back open or leaving a blank screen.
- Fixed headings and some usernames being hard to read on dark themes.
- Channels and DMs open faster, with less stutter in big communities.
- Conversations start loading as soon as you touch them.
- Custom emoji load sooner on slow connections.
- The emoji picker opens faster after the first time.
- Fixed chats getting stuck or moving on their own, including when you return to the app.
- Fixed the message list jumping to the newest message while you scroll up.
- Fixed unread lines appearing for messages you're reading in a DM.
- Fixed unsent messages disappearing after a reconnect.
- Fixed profile edits failing until you reopened the screen.
- Fixed a second tap closing a chat that was still opening.
Store changes
What Root: Community Chat & Voice changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
5 screenshots (was 5)
Root: Community Chat & Voice Android
Root: Community Chat & Voice gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Root: Community Chat & Voice is #158 in Communication Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 12 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperRoot Communications, Inc.
CategoryCommunication
PriceFree
Released
Installs100k+
Rating★ 4.1 (792)
Updated
Content ratingTeen
Rating
4.1 ★
792 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#158
Communication FreeMeasured
Root: Community Chat & Voice on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.rootapp.mobile
Publisher
ROOT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Teen
Root: Community Chat & Voice downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Root: Community Chat & Voice's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | CommunicationFree | #158 |
| United Kingdom | CommunicationFree | #118 |
| Germany | CommunicationFree | #141 |
 Australia | CommunicationFree | #92 |
| France | CommunicationFree | #140 |
 Brazil | CommunicationFree | #132 |
 Canada | CommunicationFree | #152 |
| Italy | CommunicationFree | #173 |
| Netherlands | CommunicationFree | #101 |
| Sweden | CommunicationFree | #81 |
 Spain | CommunicationFree | #195 |
 Turkey | CommunicationFree | #152 |
Apps near Root: Community Chat & Voice on the chart
Communication Free, around #158.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.1 ★
792 ratings
Measured
Ratings
792
Measured
Written reviews
184
Measured
What users say about Root: Community Chat & Voice
From the 100 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (61% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and good value. The main complaints are about login and account problems, and missing features or content. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “its really a 4/5 bc it needs improvement/more features”
- Price & subscription: “Like ALL of it, absolutely no subscriptions”
- Ease of use
- Login & account: “fix password 1no 1 symbol lower case”
Common complaints
- Login & account: “Until now I still couldn't log in”
- Features & content: “the mobile app has a edit profile feature but i doesn't even have the pronounce and other features needed to the app”
- Crashes & bugs
- Price & subscription
About Root: Community Chat & Voice
Root is community chat with voice and video calls, screen share, themes, and apps, all in one place. Chat in channels, hop into a call with your group, and add apps to enhance your community experience.
FREE PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION
No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own.
VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE
Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up.
APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid.
BRING YOUR SERVER
Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.
FREE PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION
No paywalls on personality. Animated profile pictures, animated banners, custom emoji and themes are all free. Pick a theme or build your own.
VOICE, VIDEO AND SCREEN SHARE
Talk in voice channels, turn on video, and share your screen with sound. Move a call from your computer to your phone without hanging up.
APPS IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Add apps to your community. Draw together on one canvas, track tasks, or plan your next raid.
BRING YOUR SERVER
Import a server template and Root sets up your channels, categories and roles.
FIND YOUR PEOPLE
Browse Community Discovery to find a new group chat, or list your own community.
What's new in 0.9.39
This update brings Root to seven more languages
- Root is now available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Polish and Turkish.
- See what's new after each update, and find past notes in Settings > About.
- Fixed the most common crash at startup.
- Fixed calls crashing or freezing your video.
- Fixed messages sometimes sending only partly.
- Fixed leaving a call taking you to the community home.
- Root is now available in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Polish and Turkish.
- See what's new after each update, and find past notes in Settings > About.
- Fixed the most common crash at startup.
- Fixed calls crashing or freezing your video.
- Fixed messages sometimes sending only partly.
- Fixed leaving a call taking you to the community home.
Store changes
What Root: Community Chat & Voice changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
Short description updated
New screenshots
12 screenshots (was 12)
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