BetterCrewLink

Official documentation

Official documentation for BetterCrewLink can be found on the project's GitHub Wiki.

Using BetterCrewLink on Windows

This should be as simple as the following:

1. Go to https://github.com/OhMyGuus/BetterCrewLink/releases,
2. Choosing the most recent release (as of this writing that's 2.4.5) and download the .exe file (ex. Better-CrewLink-Setup-2.4.5.exe)
3. Run that .exe file (ie. double-click it). You may need to have Among Us running already.
4. You may get some popups from Windows:
   1. When Windows pops up asking if it should let this through the network, let it.
   2. Your anti-virus might also complain because BetterCrewLink is modifying Among Us. (If it is silently denying it, you may need to add an exception, or live life dangerously by temporarily disabling your anti-virus software.)

All good? If so, there's potentially one further step. For extra features and compatibility with the web interface, we use an alternate CrewLink server in BetterCrewLink or CrewLink, so:

5. Go to Settings → Change Voice Server and put https://bettercrewl.ink in as the voice server. Follow this step even if BetterCrewLink isn't working for you and you're stuck using classic CrewLink.

Now, you should hear other people once you connect to a lobby with other BetterCrewLink.

Troubleshooting

Things sometimes go a bit screwy. Pressing ⌃+r to reload CrewLink (which is basically just a website running locally on your computer) often fixes things. You can also reload by pressing the little icon in the top-left corner after the . Doing this regularly seems sadly necessary, especially after a match.

If nobody can hear you, you might accidentally be muted because the default key for mute is Alt.

If you can't hear anyone, this might be due to the other annoying choice in defaults, as deafen is bound by default to ⌃.

Using BetterCrewLink on Mobile

Android

Theoretically one can use the mobile version on Android: https://github.com/OhMyGuus/better-crewlink-mobile/releases

iOS

No app for you, gonna have to use the web version (see below).

Mac or Linux

Best option is to just use the web version (see below).

On Linux there's now a native version! However you may have problems with Among Us itself; check the Proton GitHub issue for known problems, of which as of this writing there are some, although it does seem nonetheless quite playable.

Web Version

There is also a web version at https://web.bettercrewl.ink/, which should work then on macOS or Linux.

In the web interface, make sure to allow it to use your microphone, and you have to enter your exact ingame name and lobby code. Set your voice server to https://bettercrewl.ink, which is nowadays a popup selection:

Server

To run a server,

# Install Yarn (alternative to NPM that the official instructions have you running) using distro packages
sudo apt install yarnpkg
# Clone the repo, and move into it
git clone https://github.com/OhMyGuus/BetterCrewLink-server.git
cd BetterCrewLink-server/
# Now run yarn to install the dependencies from NPM
yarnpkg install
# Finally, actually run the server, in this example it will be reachable at http://toxic.keithzg.ca
HOSTNAME=toxic.keithzg.ca PORT=80 yarnpkg start

[Unit]
Description=BetterCrewLink server

[Service]
ExecStart=yarnpkg start
WorkingDirectory=/opt/BetterCrewLink-server
Environment=HOSTNAME=toxic.keithzg.ca PORT=80

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target