BetterDiscord

Billed as an all-encompassing voice and text chat service for gamers, Discord is slowly but surely becoming more and more popular by promoting itself as a valid replacement for other, all-around apps of this sort such as Skype, TeamSpeak, or Mumble, just to name a few.

A free and lightweight package that boasts essential security features and significantly-low CPU usage, support for multiple channels, a modern text chat environment, browser support, as well as bespoke, stylish clients for your mobile device and Windows and macOS are just some of the reasons why Discord is so compelling.

Those of you who use Discord's desktop client on a daily basis might be interested in trying out BetterDiscord. Not to say that that the Discord Windows client is not a good and customizable app (quite the contrary), but BetterDiscord has the potential of making the app a lot better for some of you.

In short, BetterDiscord provides you with a few extra customization options for the Discord app by offering support for custom themes, plugins, and emotes.

And, that's not all. You also get various options for hiding some of the UI elements and, even better, you're able to use a handy CSS editor to tweak the Discord client to your exact needs.

Another highlight is definitely how the utility looks just right by smoothly integrating with the Discord's Settings section. Once installed and subsequent to restarting Discord, you can locate the new categories (Core, Emotes, Custom CSS, Plugins, and Themes) right above the Change Log section.

The sections are pretty much self-explanatory, however, it's worth pointing out that the Core section is probably the most comprehensive of the lot. You can launch the Developer Mode, hide or display the public servers button, start a so-called Minimal Mode, replace the 12-hour timestamps with more clear ones, make the text the same color as the role, and even replace the Discord blue with BD blue.

Taking everything into account, it's quite clear that BetterDiscord has a lot of things that recommend it as the perfect companion for the Discord Windows client. Clearly, users who are perfectly content with what Discord offers will not bother, however, for users who want more customization features, this app is a must-have.