Same Here, rebuilt underneath
The product and the experience are the ones you know. What changed is everything under the hood: new servers, sign-in, storage, video and realtime sync.
Back online · Growing fast · Still experimental
Your friends are Here. Again.
The Here you remember is back: revived, rebuilt and growing up fast. Make a room, decorate it however you like, and hang out with your friends on video: plan a party, whisper in a private talk, take the mic, present, watch and draw together, right in your browser.
Free to try · Sign in with Google · Runs in your browser
The revival
The return of Here
The original Here closed in 2024. Now it's back: the same rooms, stickers and friends you remember, running on a backend, infrastructure and realtime engine rebuilt from the ground up. It's still experimental, but it's maturing quickly and more people are finding their way back every week.
Experimental, and improving fast
Some corners are still rough. Tell us what breaks with the feedback button on your desktop or on our Discord: most reports are fixed within days.
A fresh start
Accounts and rooms from the old site didn't come along, so everyone starts with a clean desktop. Signing up takes a minute with your Google account.
What is Here?
Your home base for hanging out online
Here opens on your desktop: your rooms, friends, chats and mood in one place, decorated your way. From there, jump into rooms: big shared canvases where friends show up as video bubbles you can drag around, and everything you drop in (GIFs, photos, notes, a YouTube video) appears for everyone at once.
What you can do
Hang out, face to face
Hop into a room with your camera and mic. Everyone gets a video bubble you can move, so the room feels like a place instead of a meeting. Share your screen when words aren't enough.
Watch together, in sync
Paste a YouTube or Twitch link and it plays for the whole room at the same time. Grab the popcorn sticker and make it a movie night.
Decorate it until it's yours
Stickers, GIFs, text art, images and room kits, all searchable from the toolbar. Change the background, drag everything around, pin what matters.
Most importantly, have fun
Draw together, run a poll, set a timer, take a group photo in the Photo Booth, or wander into a public chat. Here is built for goofing around.
Show off who you are
Your desktop is your home base. Pick a theme, set a mood, change the fonts and colors, and design a profile card your friends will see.
Come for the weird. Stay for the friends.
Add friends, see who's online, and keep talking in DMs and group chats that follow you from room to room. Give every chat its own background, frame, bubbles and font. Links unfurl, and GIFs and emoji are one click away.
Plus the little things
- 🎥 Video & voice rooms
- 🖥️ Screen sharing
- 🎉 Events & invites
- 🫧 Private talks
- 🎤 Microphones
- 📽️ Presentations
- 📺 YouTube & Twitch
- ✨ Stickers & GIFs
- ✏️ Drawing
- 📸 Photo Booth
- 😎 Face effects
- 📊 Polls & timers
- 🎨 Themes & moods
- 💬 DMs & group chats
- 🌍 Public chats
- 🚪 Knocking, guests & admins
- 🔗 One-click invite links
Fresh from the workshop
Growing up fast
Here is actively developed: bugs get fixed quickly and new things land all the time. It's still an experiment, but it's no longer a bare revival. Some of what arrived recently:
- 3,000+people have joined since the revival opened
- 60+updates shipped since October 1
- Daysnot months, to fix most reported bugs
Plan a party with Events
Pick a day, a time and a room, invite your friends and let them answer Going, Maybe or Can't go. Everyone sees the time in their own time zone, gets a reminder, and can add it to Google, Apple or Outlook calendars. Share the link and it shows up as an invitation card in Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp.
Private talks
Drag your camera until it touches a friend's and you're in a private talk: you hear each other clearly and the rest of the room softly. Anyone can join by touching a camera in the bubble, and room owners pick its look, from frosted glass to soap bubbles.
📽️ Presentations
Put PowerPoint, Keynote or PDF slides on a projector screen. Everyone sees the same slide.
✨ Voice auras
Your camera glows while you speak, so you always know who's talking. Room owners pick the look: glow, ripples, outline or pop.
🚪 Knock, knock
New faces knock and join as guests. Members decorate, admins keep order, the owner holds the keys.
😎 Face effects
Sunglasses, crowns, cat ears and halos that follow your face, seen by everyone in the room.
🌍 Calls close to you
Video runs on a server near whoever opened the room, and moves to another one if it goes down.
🧭 Safari and phones
Join calls from desktop Safari, and open Here in phone and tablet browsers with pinch to zoom.
🎤 Take the mic
Drop a microphone in the room and touch it with your camera to talk to everyone. Add a few for a panel.
🙋 A little more about you
Longer bios with line breaks and emoji, plus up to five interests from a list of more than 400.
Come say hi
Join us on Discord
More than 12,000 people are on the Here Discord. Talk to the people building Here, report bugs, suggest features, ask for an Android test invite, and find friends to hang out with.
On the go
Here in your pocket
A native Android app runs on the new Here: sign in, rooms, chat, friends and DMs, and room calls with camera and mic.
Early testing It's in early testing and not in the Play Store yet. Want to try it? Ask for a test invite on our Discord. iOS comes later.
Here also opens in phone and tablet browsers, and works best in a desktop browser such as Chrome.
Ask on Discord
FAQ
Questions, answered
Is this the same Here as before?
Yes, at heart. It's the same core product and idea you may remember: personal rooms, video bubbles, stickers, watching and hanging out together. Under the hood it runs on a heavily rebuilt, modernized technical foundation, and the revival is still experimental.
Can I use my old Here account?
No. Accounts, rooms and messages from the original site weren't carried over, so create a new account with Google. It takes about a minute.
Does it cost anything?
No. Sign up and start a room.
What do I need?
A Google account to sign in, and a recent browser: Chrome on a computer works best, and Safari, phones and tablets work too. Add a camera and microphone if you want to be on video. Android testers can ask for an invite on Discord.
Something broke. What do I do?
It happens: this is still an experimental edition, and fixes usually ship within days. Use the Give Us Feedback button on your Here desktop, or tell us on Discord.
Where can I talk to the team?
On our Discord. Come share bugs and ideas, see what's being worked on, and meet other people who hang out on Here.
😎 What are you waiting for? 😎
Make a room, send the link, and see who shows up.