📱✨ New Cordn update: themes are here, improved UX, and loads of small things ✨📱
Cordn 0.5.0 is out! And for the first time, your chats can look the way you like. Pick a theme, or build your own. We also taught messages to render markdown, and smoothed out a pile of little things along the way.
🎨 Make it yours: Settings now has a whole Appearance section with eight built-in themes, from calm Soft to terminal Matrix, warm paper tones to a deep purple Ostrich. Want your own? Fork any theme and tweak every color and corner radius with a live preview, edit it as JSON and share it around — or hit Roll and let chance pick one for you. Either way it stays readable, guaranteed.
✍ Messages look like you meant them: bold, italic, code, lists and links now render right in chat — what you write is what they read.
📨 Write now, send whenever: messages sent offline wait their turn and go out the moment you reconnect — exactly once. A flaky connection can never deliver the same message twice.
📸 Photos leave no fingerprints: every photo is stripped of its metadata — where it was taken, what took it — before it ever leaves your device. HEIC images also convert to something everyone can open.
🎛 The little things, all fixed up: Enter now behaves the way you expect — it sends on desktop and starts a new line on mobile, and you can change it in Settings. Voice notes need a deliberate hold to arm, so a stray swipe can't grab your mic. No more buzzing for notifications while the app is open in front of you, no more messages jumping around as they settle in.
⚡ Under the hood it's quicker and steadier: long chats stay smooth even at thousands of messages, errors name the right coordinator when one fails, and signers that can't support NIP-44 v2 tell you up front. Coordinators now show real names from nostr profiles and share with one tap.
Already available in Zapstore and obtainium.
🎁 The free @cordn.net names are still going out. Want one? Ask in the comments and we'll point it at your pubkey.
The full release notes live at https://cordn.net/chat/news
Aren't you using Cordn yet? Just start chatting at https://cordn.net/
If you like the project and want to see it grow, please consider contributing in any way you can. Every bit counts, report a bug, contribute with your expertisats. We are building this together in the open 💛
Full changelog: 
Zapstore
Cordn — Zapstore
Private group messaging you can own. Open-source Cordn client with MLS end-to-end encryption and Nostr-based identity.
GitHub
Release v0.5.0 · Cordn-msg/cordn-web
0.5.0 — 2026-09-22
Features
themes: replace Dracula with the Ostrich nostr theme
queue text sends in a durable offline outbox
chat: device-aware...
