A home you can't be evicted from
Communities keep losing their homes. Guilded went dark and took years of history with it. Other platforms started asking for government IDs and mining conversations for whatever pays.
Hearth is the other way to do it. A place your community owns, run by someone who answers to the people in it. No ad network behind the curtain, no data broker, no parent company waiting to fold it into something else.
It's built for the groups that run things: guilds, tabletop parties, competitive teams, any crew that plans, schedules, and shows up together. The tools those communities actually live by come standard instead of bolted on.
Hearth is independent and small on purpose. That's not a weakness. It means nobody upstream can decide your community is a product.
Full export of your community, any time, no questions. Ownership can pass to a council if a Keeper steps away.
If Hearth the company ever ends, the code goes public with a kit to run it yourself. The promise on the front page is a design requirement, not marketing.
Themes, roles, structure. Your hearth should look and run the way your community does, not the way ours does.
Hearth stays independent and ad-free because people chip in — not because an investor is steering. Support is entirely optional and never buys anything locked: the basics are free for every community, always.