# Grove Video

> Grove Video — Video Mail and Chatrooms on every device and on Chrome and Safari extensions (coming soon).

Grove Video (https://grovevideo.com) is a web application for real-time video chat and private video messages. Users sign in, join or host Chatrooms via invite links, and send short private Videos to contacts. This site is the app itself — not a marketing blog or content hub.

## Canonical URLs

- Home (app): https://grovevideo.com/
- Browser extension (Chrome + Safari): https://grovevideo.com/extension/
- Terms of Service: https://grovevideo.com/terms/
- Privacy Policy: https://grovevideo.com/privacy/ (Termly, auto-updating)
- Cookie Policy: https://grovevideo.com/cookies/

## Product Hunt

Grove is on Product Hunt — video mail + video chat, instantly.

- Launch page: https://www.producthunt.com/products/grove-6

External profiles are not listed in https://grovevideo.com/sitemap.xml (sitemap covers grovevideo.com pages only).

## Product summary

- Live Chatrooms with camera and microphone (WebRTC)
- Private Videos (in-app mail) to selected recipients
- Browser extension for Gmail and Outlook web compose (beta, local install)
- Email signature / mailto helpers in Account and Mail tabs
- Available on web, iOS, Android, and desktop
- Operated by Grove Video LLC (Delaware, USA)

## Browser extensions (Chrome + Safari)

Grove offers **browser extensions** for Google Chrome and Safari (macOS). They complement the web app; they are not standalone video clients.

- Info page: https://grovevideo.com/extension/
- **Toolbar popup:** Open Grove Mail, Chatrooms, or record & send on grovevideo.com; copy your profile link (`grovevideo.com/@username`).
- **Gmail + Outlook:** Insert your Grove @username invite link in email compose; quick jump to record & send.
- **What they do not do:** No WebRTC, camera, or microphone inside the extension. Host access is limited to grovevideo.com, api.grovevideo.com, Gmail, and Outlook.
- **Full app:** All video mail, chatrooms, and account features are at https://grovevideo.com/ (same account as mobile and desktop).
- **Product Hunt:** https://www.producthunt.com/products/grove-6
- **Support:** support@grovevideo.com
- **Source (repo):** `broadcast/apps/grove-extension/` — `README.md`, `llms.txt`, `AI.md`

## Legal

Use of the service is governed by the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy linked above. For questions: support@grovevideo.com

## Crawl policy

Robots rules: https://grovevideo.com/robots.txt

- Search engines (Googlebot, Bingbot) may index public pages listed above.
- Claude search and user bots (Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User) may fetch public pages and this file; the training crawler (ClaudeBot) is limited to this file only.
- OpenAI search/user bots (ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot) may fetch public pages and this file; training crawler (GPTBot) is fully disallowed.
- Other AI training crawlers (Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, etc.) are disallowed.
- `/api/` and `/media/` are never available to crawlers.