Call right from the conversation

Call someone from a direct conversation, or call a whole group — up to six people. Voice travels directly between devices, encrypted, and is never recorded.

One-to-one

• A phone button in the direct conversation header — once the other person has joined.
• Incoming: a bar "Calling you" with "Decline" and "Answer"; a system notification if the window is in the background.
• In a call: timer, speaking indicator, microphone, "End".
• The result stays for 3 seconds: no answer (45 s), declined, busy, connection lost, answered on another device, call ended.

Group call

• "Call group" in the group crumb menu.
• Up to 6 people including you; disabled in larger groups.
• The bar shows the participants; the speaker's icon lights up.
• One person leaving doesn't end the call for the rest.
• A window opened mid-call shows the bar right away.

Modes

• Auto — the microphone is open for the whole call.
• Push-to-talk — your voice goes out only while you hold the key or the "Talk" button. Space by default; reassign it in "Push-to-talk key" (a combination or a single modifier; Option on macOS and Alt on Windows are not accepted).
• Space in a text field types, it doesn't talk.
• The key is listened to only in the NCraft window: when the window goes to the background, transmission stops. No global keyboard hooks.
• Windows only: on an empty tab, in PDFs and on error pages the key doesn't talk — use the "Talk" button.

Audio

• System voice processing (the OS removes echo and noise), Opus at 48 kHz.
• The microphone is used only during a call.

Status, honestly

• Calls are a new feature: they pass automated tests but haven't yet been widely tested live.
• A direct path or the group's relay is required: our servers never carry calls.