Discord
Discord is a desktop chat and community app for text, voice, video, screen sharing, and shared spaces across personal groups and larger servers.
What is Discord?
Discord is a communication platform published by Discord, Inc. that combines text chat, voice calls, video calls, screen sharing, and community spaces in one desktop app. On macOS, users commonly install it to talk with friends, gaming groups, study communities, hobby servers, or workplace teams. The Mac app is a desktop client for the Discord service and is distributed from Discord’s official download page. It supports direct messages, group chats, server-based channels, media sharing, and live activities such as streaming and voice chat. Discord also offers account and privacy controls, including the ability to request a copy of account data from within the service. Many Mac users will recognize it as an Electron-based app that may keep background helper processes running while the client is open or configured to reopen after login.
Key features
- Text channels, direct messages, and group chats
- Voice calls, video calls, and screen sharing
- Server-based communities with multiple channels and roles
- File and media sharing inside chats and servers
- Desktop app access alongside a browser-based client
- Account privacy tools including downloadable account data
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Discord is a legitimate app from Discord, Inc. and is widely used for communication. It is generally safe when downloaded from Discord’s official site, but it can expose users to unsolicited messages, user-generated content, scams, or malicious links shared by other people. The app also stores account data, cached media, and usage data locally, so shared or managed Macs may require extra account and privacy review.
Recommendation: Keep it if you actively use Discord for messaging, calls, communities, or collaboration. Remove it if you no longer use the service and want to reclaim space or reduce background activity, but expect local cache files and account-related data to be cleared with the app.
Common paths
/Applications/Discord.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.hnc.Discord
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/discord
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.hnc.Discord.plist
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