Slack 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 Windows S BSD Apple Watch Electron / Atom Shell Group chat Group collaboration Team Collaboration Extensible by Plugins/Extensions ... Multi Channel 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 591 Like you can't just open a second organization chat in one app instance - you must have it opened twice (more RAM usage), also it doesn't have voice chat. rnickson • Mar 2018 • 0 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree Pretty much identical to Discord, just different UI, no voice stuff, and more professional looking... Guest • Jan 2018 • 3 agrees and 12 disagrees Disagree Agree
Tox 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 Encrypted chat Peer-To-Peer Built-in player ... Security focused Video calling Ad-free Anonymity Anonymous Secure Filesharing Client side encryption End-to-end encryption Group chat Peer-To-Peer Privacy focused Share your screen Texting Add a feature 369 Like You can chat via it with audio - and also video, that trumps Discord! Guest • Jun 2017 • 12 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree Tox is general has great ideas, I love the decentralized part, but also miss features of a centralized service like sending messages to offline users. Would be cool if someone manage to make a web client for Tox. Guest • Jun 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree This is not a gaming-oriented chat program. 5247009 • May 2017 • 5 agrees and 30 disagrees Disagree Agree
Mumble 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 Lightweight Ad-free Channel manager Chat Bot ... Dedicated Server Hosting Development API Encrypted chat Specific for Gaming In-Game Overlay Portable Positional audio Push to talk Add a feature 363 Like Free open source software, you can easily host your own server. D4CX • Nov 2016 • 11 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Open source chat and audio call service, but could use a face lift. Guest • Feb 2017 • 9 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Mumble is a pure voice chat with optional text Guest • Aug 2017 • 4 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Mumble are for real time communication not differed and persistent chat like Discord. julienth37 • May 2018 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 • 2 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree
Riot.im 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 Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone iPad Self-Hosted Chrome Safari F-Droid Firefox End-to-end encryption Decentralized Group chat Matrix.org protocol ... Video calling Voice Call Built-in File transfer Community based Custom widgets DRM Free Encrypted chat GitHub integration Group collaboration Send files Server Moderation Server side history Slack integration Team Collaboration Video calling Add a feature 165 Like It also has chat rooms which can be combined into groups (like Discords servers) and group voice calls. It's open source and can be hosted on an own server or used on one of many free servers. nipos • Dec 2017 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
Wire 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 Personal $ $ $ 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 Privacy focused Privacy Protected Share your screen Video calling Voice Call WebRTC Add a feature 163 Like
Mattermost Mattermost is an open source, self-hosted Slack alternative. As an alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings... Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad Self-Hosted JavaScript Go (Programming Language) Cloudron Team Collaboration Data API Group chat Integrated File Sharing ... MarkDown support On-premises software Plugin API Slack integration Add a feature 123 Like
TeamSpeak 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 Self-hosted Feature Voice Call Add a feature 164 Like Choose whether you want to host your own server for free or rent. Better permission system than discord. usernamehere • Oct 2016 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree servers are self-hosted, it focuses on voice chat, android app is paid rnickson • Mar 2018 Disagree Agree TS is for Voice with optional chat. Not a persistent chat app. Guest • Aug 2017 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
Matrix.org 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 End-to-end encryption Decentralized Chat Bot Distributed ... Encrypted chat GNU/linux-libre Group chat Real time collaboration Server side history Team Collaboration WebRTC Add a feature 81 Like
Ring 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 Peer-To-Peer ... Video calling Add a feature 93 Like
RetroShare RetroShare is a open source cross-platform, private and secure decentralized communication system. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more, using... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD OpenSSL ... OpenPGP Serverless Anonymous Secure Filesharing Decentralized Encrypted end to end ... Gpg encryption Add a feature 96 Like
Rocket.Chat Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Self-Hosted Cloudron Ad-free Chat Bot Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Group chat ... Integrated File Sharing Location Mapping Share your screen Voice messages Add a feature 71 Like
Zulip Zulip is a group chat app. Its most distinctive characteristic is that messages are threaded by topic, helping you have long-running, organized conversations.... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet BSD Self-Hosted Threaded Conversations Group collaboration Chat Bot Community based ... GitHub integration Group chat Integrated File Sharing MarkDown support Team Collaboration Add a feature 116 Like
Orbit Instant messaging rooms for the distributed network IPFS. Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux IPFS JavaScript ... Go (Programming Language) No features added Add a feature 12 Like
Dialog Messenger 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 OS X Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Self-Hosted Encrypted chat Privacy protection Reactions Real time collaboration ... Team work Text chat Add a feature 24 Like
Zala Zala is a collaboration app that lets you chat, share checklists and files with anyone in your Contacts. Zala is available for Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and... Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Apple Watch Real time collaboration Team Collaboration Add a feature 1 Like
