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Channels are now Rooms.

We've renamed channels to rooms across web, iOS, and Android. The same persistent, always-on voice spaces, a clearer name for how teams actually use them. Nothing to migrate.

whoot. team · June 2026 · 4 min read

  • "Channel" is now "Room" everywhere: web, iOS, and Android
  • Your spaces, members, permissions, and history are unchanged
  • Dial-in numbers, presence, recording, and per-room colours all intact
  • Nothing to migrate. The change is purely in the name
Sheet 1Product · June 2026 · 4 min read
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Jun 2026

whoot. team

A small word change. A much clearer idea.

From today, what you used to call a channel is now called a room, across the web app, iOS, Android, and everywhere we talk about the product. It's the same feature you already use every day. We just gave it a name that fits.

“Channel” carries the wrong baggage. It sounds like a broadcast feed you tune into, or a text thread you skim later: one-directional, asynchronous, passive. That's not what whoot. is. A whoot. space is somewhere you walk into and talk, where everyone can hear and be heard in real time, the moment they press to speak.

That's a room. You step in, you're with your team, the conversation is already live. It's how trading desks, control rooms, and operations floors actually think about these spaces, so it's what we now call them.

Nothing about your setup changes. Every space you've built, every member, every permission, every recording and dial-in number is exactly where you left it. There's nothing to migrate and nothing to relearn: only the label is different.

Detail

What it does

Same space. Everything you rely on.

A whoot. room is a persistent, always-on voice space: here's what it does.

Always-On Voice
  • Persistent push-to-talk spaces that are always live
  • Sub-150ms end-to-end voice: walk in and talk
  • Join and leave freely; the room is always there
Dial-In Numbers
  • Give any room a real phone number
  • PSTN callers dial in and join instantly: no app, no account
  • Inbound callers appear as live participants
Live Presence
  • See who's listening with a real-time avatar strip
  • Know who's in the room before you speak
  • Presence syncs across web, iOS, and Android
Recording & Transcription
  • Compliance-grade capture, per room
  • Searchable AI transcripts of every conversation
  • Configurable retention and full audit trails
Per-Room Colours
  • An eight-colour accent palette to organise at a glance
  • Tell rooms apart instantly across a busy workspace
  • Set once, consistent on every device
Granular Control
  • Per-member transmit and receive permissions
  • Cross-tenant sharing for external rooms
  • Emergency alert scopes and defaults per room
Design

How it is built

Only the name changed.

This is a rename, not a redesign. There's no migration to run, no settings to rebuild, and no learning curve. Every space, member, permission, recording, and dial-in number is exactly as you left it. Your links, integrations, and API access keep working without a change. The next time you sign in, you'll just see “Room” where it used to say “Channel”, and everything else will be right where it's always been.

  • The word changed, the product didn't. Your spaces work exactly as before.
  • Members, permissions, history, recordings, and dial-in numbers are untouched
  • Web, iOS, and Android all say "Room" now: one consistent vocabulary
  • No action required: you don't need to recreate or reconfigure anything
  • Per-room accent colours, presence, and transcripts all carry over
  • Shared and external rooms keep their existing access, exactly as set
  • Your URLs, integrations, and API access continue to work as before
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You don't tune into a channel.

You walk into a room.

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