Client Distribution

While mobile clients can be distributed through most system app stores, desktop clients require a custom solution for downloading and updating. Discord provides various APIs for downloading clients, their native modules, and keeping everything up-to-date. Visit the downloads page to learn more about the clients currently offered.

These URLs, provided for convenience, provide access to all client downloads (and redirect access to CDN-hosted ones), but are NOT used for the API requests below. For those, see the API Base URL.

https://dl.discordapp.net/
https://dl-ptb.discordapp.net/
https://dl-canary.discordapp.net/
https://dl-development.discordapp.net/

Discord offers a web client that can be used in a browser. This same web client is also used in the desktop client in tandem with native modules to provide a richer experience.

¹ See the Help Center article for more information on Discord testing clients.

Discord offers Electron desktop clients for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The Windows application uses a separate install and update stack from the other desktop platforms. See Get Latest Distributed Application Installer for more information on getting the latest application installer, and Get Latest Distributed Application Manifest for more information on getting the latest application updates.

See Get Latest Application Installer for more information on getting the latest application installer, and Get Application Updates for more information on getting the latest application updates.

See Get Latest Application Installer for more information on getting the latest application installer, and Get Application Updates for more information on getting the latest application updates. Note that the Linux application is not auto-updated.

Desktop release channels follow web release channels when rendering the client. However, the application host and native modules are updated separately from the client itself.

¹ See the Help Center article for more information on Discord testing clients.

² The development build follows the canary web release channel and is not recommended for use. It may be unstable or broken at any time.

Discord maintains stable and beta mobile clients for both Android and iOS.

¹ See the Help Center article for more information on Discord testing clients.

¹ See the Help Center article for more information on Discord testing clients.

Redirects to the latest application installer for the provided release channel and selected platform.

¹ Only applicable to the Linux platform.

Returns information about the latest application host update for the provided release channel and selected platform.

¹ Only provided if auto updates are available for the selected platform.

{
  "name": "0.0.75",
  "pub_date": "2023-07-05T17:16:10",
  "url": "https://dl-ptb.discordapp.net/apps/osx/0.0.75/DiscordPTB.zip",
  "notes": ""
}

Returns a mapping of module names to integer versions representing the found native module versions for the provided release channel and selected platform.

{
  "discord_cloudsync": 1,
  "discord_desktop_core": 1,
  "discord_dispatch": 1,
  "discord_erlpack": 1,
  "discord_game_utils": 1,
  "discord_krisp": 1,
  "discord_modules": 1,
  "discord_rpc": 1,
  "discord_spellcheck": 1,
  "discord_utils": 1,
  "discord_voice": 1
}

Redirects to a ZIP archive of the native module for the provided release channel, module name, and module version, if found.

Redirects to the latest application installer for the selected platform.

Returns information about the latest application updates for the selected platform.

¹ This field is only provided via the above rehosted updates endpoint, and requires install_id and platform_version to be set and supported.

{
  "modules": {
    "discord_overlay2": {
      "full": {
        "host_version": [1, 0, 9015],
        "module_version": 1,
        "package_sha256": "baa1196292f888c8a90413ea19201849c7a8b7be1a52f2d6b9a185e04ab1b49a",
        "url": "https://dl.discordapp.net/distro/app/stable/win/x86/1.0.9015/discord_overlay2/1/full.distro"
      },
      "deltas": [
        {
          "host_version": [1, 0, 9014],
          "module_version": 1,
          "package_sha256": "7634e584b90bb0315fff0b69dd19712c1acbb0687657548e698e5348dc59c824",
          "url": "https://dl.discordapp.net/distro/app/stable/win/x86/1.0.9015/discord_overlay2/1/from/1.0.9014/1"
        },
        {
          "host_version": [1, 0, 9013],
          "module_version": 2,
          "package_sha256": "60b2876b144d918cf8f1ba61110162782c9dc52def8d64b97222cd607989c211",
          "url": "https://dl.discordapp.net/distro/app/stable/win/x86/1.0.9015/discord_overlay2/1/from/1.0.9013/2"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "full": {
    "host_version": [1, 0, 9015],
    "package_sha256": "bde31e984e70465fcc9dc01241e3fd8bbb3f84cb49567b8b9930a6a7bc193b7b",
    "url": "https://dl.discordapp.net/distro/app/stable/win/x86/1.0.9015/full.distro"
  },
  "deltas": [
    {
      "host_version": [1, 0, 9014],
      "package_sha256": "48b8f905c7a40ca588e02db4b2903926bc62dbc9e3c9f38f8548882724fac6fa",
      "url": "https://dl.discordapp.net/distro/app/stable/win/x86/1.0.9015/from/1.0.9014"
    },
    {
      "host_version": [1, 0, 9013],
      "package_sha256": "357914897b025320fe139e3ddb9bc8b81c8d4747947026b83d0627f282d35aff",
      "url": "https://dl.discordapp.net/distro/app/stable/win/x86/1.0.9015/from/1.0.9013"
    }
  ],
  "required_modules": [
    "discord_desktop_core",
    "discord_erlpack",
    "discord_spellcheck",
    "discord_utils",
    "discord_voice"
  ]
}