2325 Like Skype Good alternative? YES NO An instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone Blackberry Chrome OS ... Windows RT Android Tablet BSD Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Android Wear PortableApps.com Video calling Share your screen IFTTT integration Microsoft Office integration ... Video calling Voice Call Add a feature Skype uses a 1:1 system, where as discord uses a chat room system Guest • Dec 2015 • 10 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Discord is a team based persistent IM, with many design, permissions for public channel design and multimedia sharing. It's use case is different. Skype is a telepresence app that can handle small group calls with emphasis on quality of communication. Guest • Aug 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Skype doesn't have custom server with custom roles and settings.. Also, it only works well on Windows, while on other platforms it's very buggy, slow and resource-expensive. Guest • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It used to be good, but when Microsoft bought it, it just ended up bad. Last time I tried to sign in I couldn't, even when I reset my password about 3 times Guest • Apr 2017 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree No bots, hard to use unlike discord simple click to use ways Guest • Mar 2017 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
514 Like Slack Good alternative? YES NO Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams. Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone BSD Apple Watch ... Electron / Atom Shell Group collaboration Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Group chat Multi Channel ... Team collaboration App integration Channel manager IFTTT integration Support for @mentions Onboarding Out Of The Box Reactions Real time collaboration Share files Team work Voice Call Add a feature
323 Like Tox Good alternative? YES NO Send messages, files, create groups and make Tox to Tox audio and video calls. Securely. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD Decentralized Built-in player Encrypted chat Security focused ... Video calling Ad-free Anonymous Secure Filesharing Client side encryption End-to-end encryption Group chat Peer-To-Peer Texting Add a feature You can chat via it with audio - and also video, that trumps Discord! Guest • Jun 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree This is not a gaming-oriented chat program. 5247009 • May 2017 • 0 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
344 Like Mumble Good alternative? YES NO Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux iPhone BSD iPad PortableApps.com Ad-free Channel manager Chat Bot Development API ... Encrypted chat Specific for Gaming In-Game Overlay Positional audio Push to talk Add a feature Free open-source software, you can easily host your own server. D4CX • Nov 2016 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Open source chat and audio call service, but could use a face lift. Guest • Feb 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree It does the same things as Discord except screen sharing, but it's got the downside of having to host your own server. Guest • Aug 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Mumble is a pure voice chat with optional text Guest • Aug 2017 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
104 Like Riot.im Good alternative? YES NO Riot (formerly Vector) is an opensource interoperable app running on Web, iOS and Android. It is built around chat rooms, both public and private and provides messaging... Free Open Source Linux Web Android iPhone iPad Self-Hosted Chrome Safari ... F-Droid Firefox Decentralized End-to-end encryption Matrix.org protocol Built-in File transfer ... Encrypted chat GitHub integration Group chat Group collaboration Self Hosted Feature Server Moderation Server side history Slack integration Team collaboration Video calling Voice Call Add a feature
117 Like Wire Good alternative? YES NO Wire is a secure and private messenger for phones, tablets and desktop. Crystal clear voice and video calls, private group chats, file sharing, audio and video messages... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad End-to-end encryption Security focused Encrypted calls Encrypted chat ... Group chat Integrated File Sharing Photo Sharing Share your screen Video calling Voice Call WebRTC Add a feature
154 Like TeamSpeak Good alternative? YES NO TeamSpeak is a proprietary Voice over IP software that allows users to speak on a chat channel with other users, much like a telephone conference call. A TeamSpeak user... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Decentralized Group chat Hostable In-Game Overlay ... Privacy Protected Push to talk Voice Call Add a feature TS is for Voice with optional chat. Not a persistent chat app. Guest • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Choose whether you want to host your own server for free or rent. Better permission system than discord. usernamehere • Oct 2016 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
71 Like Ring Good alternative? YES NO Ring is a secure and distributed voice, video and chat communication platform that requires no centralized server and leaves the power of privacy in the hands of the... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Decentralized Distributed End-to-end encryption Video calling Add a feature
51 Like Matrix.org Good alternative? YES NO Matrix is an open standard for decentralized persistent communication over IP. It can be used for decentralised group chat, WebRTC signaling, IoT-data transfer, ... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad ... Self-Hosted WebRTC Python JavaScript Go (Programming Language) Java Perl Chat Bot Decentralized Encrypted chat End-to-end encryption ... Group chat Real time collaboration Server side history Team collaboration WebRTC Add a feature
90 Like Evolve Good alternative? YES NO Evolve is a desktop app and community for serious gamers. It makes it easy to cast your games on Twitch, share captured screenshots and videos on Twitter, Facebook... Freemium Windows Web LAN Tunneling Virtual LAN Achievements Built-in VPN ... Specific for Gaming In-Game Chat In-Game Overlay Interface Overlay Lossless quality Twitch integration Add a feature
22 Like Twitch Messenger Good alternative? YES NO Desktop and mobile app for Twitch users to communicate with friends and teammates across platforms. Free Mac Windows Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Group chat In-Game Overlay Add a feature
9 Like Orbit Good alternative? YES NO Instant messaging rooms for the distributed network IPFS. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux IPFS JavaScript Go (Programming Language) No features added Add a feature
37 Like Ventrilo Good alternative? YES NO Ventrilo is the next evolutionary step of Voice over IP (VoIP) group communications software. Free Mac Windows Group chat Add a feature Discontinued Development seems to be discontinued, but last versions, 3.0.8 for Windows and 3.0.13 for Mac, can be still downloaded from the official website
20 Like Dialog Messenger Good alternative? YES NO Dialog Messenger is a customized self-hosted platform usable across multi operation systems simultaneously. dialog provides SDK tools for client interface as well as for... Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Web Android iPhone Self-Hosted Encrypted chat Privacy protection Reactions Real time collaboration ... Team work Text chat Add a feature
23 Like TribeScale Good alternative? YES NO TribeScale is a startup that aims to enhance teamwork in companies through the improvement of communication, coordination, and the pace on the basis of targets set. Free Mac Windows Web Android iPhone iPad Self-Hosted Goal setting Goal Tracking Group chat Group collaboration ... Real time collaboration Team collaboration Team work Add a feature
