Let your office do the talking. Set a custom Status Bubble on your office to let your team know what's happening!
Improved UI for adjusting Voice Message speed playback.
Fixed an issue with dragging and dropping attachments when editing a previously sent message.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Fixed a rare issue where the app could hang on macOS.
Today, Roam is launching a major upgrade to chat with #Channels, including an all-new visual design, a new third panel for threads, a left rail for switching views, and a long list of new messaging features, upgrades, and improvements across #Channels and DMs. We think you’re going to love Roam’s new enterprise-grade chat experience, available now on desktop and mobile. Update Roam now to try it out.
Want a walkthrough of the new chat experience? Join us for a quick On-Air workshop on Wednesday September 16th at 1pm ET where we’ll demo the new features, show you how everything works, and answer questions.
A refreshed visual design across chat, with cleaner layouts and updated controls.
A new third panel for threads so you can follow conversations without losing your place.
A left rail for switching views and moving quickly between different chat modes.
Group Chats now become #Channels.
Files tab to easily search files from across your chats. Each chat now has its own files tab for easy access to files in specific channels or DMs.
Unread counters for DMs and channel mentions make it easier to see what needs your attention.
New directories for users, channels, user groups, and guests make it easier to find people and conversations.
Improved channel settings and administration with a simpler management experience.
Quote replies and threaded replies are now available in both channels and DMs.
Rich text formatting is now available in both channels and DMs.
New Drafts and Scheduled messages view.
Click the Roam icon to return to Map view when viewing Inbox in a separate window.
View shared files and pinned links for any channel or DM.
Quickly edit channel details by clicking the channel name in the chat header.
Quickly view and edit notification preferences directly from the chat header.
Automatic hiding of unused channels. Channels with no recent activity will be hidden from the main view but remain available from the channel folder dropdown or Channel Directory.
Improved history navigation, including browser-style swipe gestures backwards and forwards.
Recent chat history now syncs across devices.
Use Command+K or Ctrl+K to quickly move through recent chats or search for channels and people.
Scroll position is now recalled when switching between chats.
Option+Click or Alt+Click in AInbox to quickly toggle a conversation between read and unread.
Resizable panels let you customize your layout, or double-click a divider to automatically size each of the three panels for your window.
Easily embed a Magicast on your website. Open your Magicast, click the Embed button, and click Copy Code.
On-Air recurring events pages now handle past and upcoming dates more clearly.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Introducing #Channels for iOS. Roam’s major upgrade to chat is ready for iPhone and iPad, with an all-new Inbox, a two-column layout on iPad, a new Directory for browsing users, channels, guests, and user groups, tools for creating and managing user groups, and drafts visible directly from the Inbox.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Introducing #Channels for Android. Roam’s major upgrade to chat is ready for Android devices, with an all-new visual design, chat-first navigation, a refreshed Inbox, threaded replies in DMs, quote replies in channels, unread message and mention counters, and a long list of messaging upgrades and improvements across #Channels and DMs.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Build your own actions right into Roam chat. Create slash commands that launch custom forms and workflows, or add actions accessible from any message’s context menu.
Turn a chat into a project ticket, type a slash command to trigger an internal workflow, send message content to another system, or develop something completely new.
Learn how to create app actions.
On-Air now lets hosts extend a recurring event beyond its originally scheduled end date.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
You can now schedule messages to send later! Press and hold on the send button to choose a date and time.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Support for foldable devices.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Roam already shows when you’re coding with Claude, listening to Spotify, or in an external video meeting. Now, with our new External Activity API, you can bring custom activity to the Map. Show an emoji on your sales team’s private offices when they’re on a sales call, surface live activity from internal tools, or make offices glow or automatically set DND based on activity in other apps.
Meeting Rooms are now called Video Rooms and Team Rooms are now called Audio Rooms.
Auto-DND for Google Meet is now supported on Windows when you use the Google Meet Progressive Web App.
You can now open the Recordings window to view your existing Magicasts directly from the Magicast recording window.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Fixed an issue where you could not move rooms on the floor map.
You can now seamlessly switch devices, such as from a laptop to a phone or vice versa, without leaving your current meeting. On the device you’d like to switch to, go to the Overworld and click or tap “Switch” to continue the meeting on that device.
You can now configure Drop-in to work outside your available hours, allowing visitors to drop in anytime you’re alone in your private office and not in DND mode. Enable in Lobby Details > General > Drop-Ins Outside Available Hours.
Drop in activity now posts when Post in a Chat Group is configured in Lobby Details > Advanced.
Support for seamless device switching in meetings.
You can now hover over a teammate’s office name to see their current local time (if they’ve chosen to display their timezone on their profile badge).
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Support for seamless device switching in meetings.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Support for seamless device switching in meetings.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Join hundreds of passionate people using Roam every day to share insights, use cases, workflows, and ideas, and learn from others who are passionate about getting the most out of Roam’s virtual office. Come ask questions, swap tips, share what’s working for your team, and help shape the future of Roam.
Roam now asks you to confirm before leaving a private Chat Group.
Fixed a rare issue that could allow two screen shares to start at once and leave one running after the other was stopped.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
On-Air now supports recurring virtual events. Create daily, weekly, or monthly event series, and let guests RSVP once for the entire series or choose which dates they’ll attend. Great for weekly trainings, monthly webinars, and other recurring virtual events.
Improved Slack Import with better error handling when uploading Slack workspace files.
Lobby notifications in Chat Groups now include the host’s name and answers to custom booking questions.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
You can now set any Lobby to automatically post a message in a selected Roam Chat Group whenever a meeting is booked, rescheduled, or canceled.
This brings real-time Lobby activity seamlessly into the AInbox, so your team can easily follow and manage booking updates.
Go to Lobby Details > Advanced > Post in Chat Group, then choose the Chat Group where you’d like updates to appear.
Screen Share > Select Area now remembers your previous crop selection, so you can quickly share the same area again.
Fixed an issue where screen share controls were inaccessible in certain conditions on Windows 10.
Fixed a Lobby bug that prevented you from adding buffer time both before and after the event.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Update core front-end infrastructure to stay current with the latest performance and security best practices.
This update is rolling out to customers slowly under a phased release schedule.
If you use Cursor’s AI coding agent and have been feeling left out of Claude, Codex, and Pi on the Map, your time has come! When someone on your team is using Cursor, watch their office light up as Cursor cooks up their code in real time.
Cursor activity on the map is currently available only on Mac and Linux. Roam has not yet added Windows support.
Improved experience when pasting tables into chat messages.
Various bug fixes and improvements.