# cinny
Cinny is the second web client I host, for people who find Element a bit much. It’s clean, minimal, and focused on just chatting, with an interface that feels closer to Discord than to a swiss army knife.
Same account, same rooms, same encryption: it talks to the exact same server, so nothing changes except the look. Try both and keep the one you like, or use them side by side, Matrix doesn’t care how many clients you’re logged in with.
Minimal doesn’t mean bare, by the way. Encrypted rooms work, verification works, spaces show up as a tidy sidebar, and small things like message formatting and emoji reactions are all there. What you won’t find is the pile of settings and integrations Element carries around, and for a lot of people that’s exactly the appeal. My own rule of thumb: if someone mostly lives in a handful of rooms and just wants to chat, Cinny fits. If they run communities and want moderation tools everywhere, Element it is.
One note: if you register through the Matrix page, that flow goes through Element. Registering directly in Cinny works too with a token, but doing it once in Element and then logging into Cinny is the path with the least surprises.
Like Element Web, I only host it; the app itself is built by the Cinny project upstream, I keep the deployment updated.
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