What Frenz is, and how to use it

The short version: Frenz is one place for the four things gaming normally spreads across four apps. Your clips, your squad, your voice chat and your stream, on one account.

What is Frenz?

A social network for people who play games. You follow people, you post your clips and videos, you talk in communities with text and voice channels, and you go live from the browser or from OBS. It is free, and you do not need four other apps open beside it.

What makes it different is that all of it sits on one profile. The clip you posted, the community you run, the stream you did last night and the people you play with are the same account, so somebody who finds one of them finds the rest.

Do I have to leave Discord?

No, and you should not try to move everybody in one evening. Most people keep their old server running and start with one channel here, or with their clips. Signing in with Discord is only there so you can bring your account and your friends across without typing anything out twice. It does not touch your servers.

Is it free? What is Premium then?

Everything above is free. Premium is comfort and looks: files up to 500 MB instead of 50, an animated avatar and profile effects, a badge, and source quality when you stream. Premium+ adds a gigabyte, boosts to hand to communities you like, and the age check that gets you into 18+ ones, which costs us money for every attempt. Nothing about who can talk to you, watch you or play with you sits behind either of them.

How do I get going?

1. Pick your games. They are the one thing Frenz asks for, because they are what the feed, the search and the people it suggests are built on. Change them any time in Settings.
2. Post a clip. Drag a file onto Upload, or let the Windows app record the last minutes of your game in the background and press one key when something happens. Tag the people who were actually there: their side of the game sees it too.
3. Find your people. Discover is people and communities that play what you play. Add somebody as a frenz and you can message and call them.
4. Make a community, or join one. Text channels, voice channels, categories, roles, an events calendar, and a welcome message. If you already run a Discord server you can import its channels and categories rather than rebuilding them.
5. Go live. Go live streams straight from the browser, or gives you a server and a key for OBS. Your stream has chat, and you can record it to a video that stays on your channel afterwards.

The questions people actually ask

Who sees what I post?

Clips and videos are public unless you set them otherwise, and your profile can be public or friends only. Every field on your profile has its own setting: everybody, frenz only, or nobody. Direct messages are between the people in them.

What is Clip of the Month?

A monthly competition. Post a clip and tag a teammate to enter, and the most watched entry that month wins. There is a second board for bringing people across. The standings are live all month, and the prizes are on that page.

Can I make money here?

Yes, once your channel is big enough for it. Subscriptions and tips both pay out, and Frenz takes a smaller cut than the places you know. Your Creator Studio shows what you have and what the next step needs.

Something is broken, or somebody is being a problem

Use Send feedback in the menu for anything that does not work, and the report button on the thing itself for anybody breaking the rules. Bug reports are a conversation now: you can see what happened to yours, and you get told when it is fixed.

Is there an app?

There is a Windows app that clips your gameplay in the background. The website works on a phone. Mac, iPhone and Android are being built.

Still stuck? Send feedback from the menu and a person answers. Everything that changed recently is on the updates page.