diff --git a/src/ElementCallView.tsx b/src/ElementCallView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..72cf9ddaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ElementCallView.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { type FC, type ReactNode, useState } from "react";
+import { type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
+import { type MatrixRTCSession } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/matrixrtc";
+
+import { GroupCallView } from "./room/GroupCallView";
+import { type MuteStates } from "./state/MuteStates";
+import { type UrlParams } from "./UrlParams";
+
+interface Props {
+  /** The client to place the call with. */
+  client: MatrixClient;
+  /** The call to join. */
+  rtcSession: MatrixRTCSession;
+  /** The audio and video mute state to start from, and keep in step with. */
+  muteStates: MuteStates;
+  /**
+   * Whether the user is signed in as a guest, and so should be offered the
+   * chance to create an account when the call ends.
+   */
+  isPasswordlessUser: boolean;
+  /** Whether to keep the user in this call rather than letting them navigate. */
+  confineToRoom: boolean;
+  /** Whether to wait for the host to ask us to join. */
+  preload: UrlParams["preload"];
+  /** Whether to enter the call directly, without showing the lobby first. */
+  skipLobby: UrlParams["skipLobby"];
+}
+
+/**
+ * A call, as a component.
+ *
+ * This owns being in a call, and nothing about how Element Call came to be
+ * showing one: no routing, no authentication, no resolving of room aliases.
+ * Those belong to whatever is hosting it — the standalone app's own shell, or
+ * an application embedding Element Call directly.
+ *
+ * TODO: `muteStates` is still passed in, because the standalone shell shares
+ * one with the lobby it shows while waiting to be let into a room. Ownership
+ * moves here once that lobby has its own.
+ */
+export const ElementCallView: FC<Props> = ({
+  client,
+  rtcSession,
+  muteStates,
+  isPasswordlessUser,
+  confineToRoom,
+  preload,
+  skipLobby,
+}): ReactNode => {
+  // Whether the user is in the call is the call's own business, not its host's.
+  const [joined, setJoined] = useState(false);
+
+  return (
+    <GroupCallView
+      client={client}
+      rtcSession={rtcSession}
+      joined={joined}
+      setJoined={setJoined}
+      isPasswordlessUser={isPasswordlessUser}
+      confineToRoom={confineToRoom}
+      preload={preload}
+      skipLobby={skipLobby}
+      muteStates={muteStates}
+    />
+  );
+};
diff --git a/src/room/RoomPage.tsx b/src/room/RoomPage.tsx
index 33eb80ddb..604840e5f 100644
--- a/src/room/RoomPage.tsx
+++ b/src/room/RoomPage.tsx
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import {
 import { useClientLegacy } from "../ClientContext";
 import { ErrorPage, FullScreenView, LoadingPage } from "../FullScreenView";
 import { RoomAuthView } from "./RoomAuthView";
-import { GroupCallView } from "./GroupCallView";
+import { ElementCallView } from "../ElementCallView";
 import { useRoomIdentifier, useUrlParams } from "../UrlParams";
 import { useRegisterPasswordlessUser } from "../auth/useRegisterPasswordlessUser";
 import { HomePage } from "../home/HomePage";
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ export const RoomPage: FC = (): ReactNode => {
   const { avatarUrl, displayName: userDisplayName } = useProfile(client);
 
   const groupCallState = useLoadGroupCall(client, roomIdOrAlias, viaServers);
-  const [joined, setJoined] = useState(false);
 
   const devices = useMediaDevices();
   const [muteStates, setMuteStates] = useState<MuteStates | null>(null);
@@ -125,11 +124,9 @@ export const RoomPage: FC = (): ReactNode => {
       case "loaded":
         return (
           muteStates && (
-            <GroupCallView
+            <ElementCallView
               client={client!}
               rtcSession={groupCallState.rtcSession}
-              joined={joined}
-              setJoined={setJoined}
               isPasswordlessUser={passwordlessUser}
               confineToRoom={confineToRoom}
               preload={preload}