Best Messaging Software

Compare the Top Messaging Software as of April 2025

What is Messaging Software?

Messaging software and messaging apps allow users to send messages to and from their desktop, smartphone, or tablet. Compare and read user reviews of the best Messaging software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Brosix

    Brosix

    Brosix

    Brosix Instant Messenger (IM) supports businesses to streamline and secure their team communication through private team communication networks. Brosix provides businesses with all of the tools they need to increase team productivity in one user friendly and fully encrypted platform, including file transfer, screen sharing, group and private chat, virtual whiteboard and more. Brosix IM’s private networks help businesses to increase team collaboration and efficiency, reduce overhead, and guarantee data privacy. Team networks take just minutes to set up, so businesses can immediately begin reaping the benefits of their all-in-one, and fully administrable communication network.
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    Starting Price: $4 per month
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    Slack

    Slack

    Slack

    Slack is a cloud-based project collaboration and team interaction software solution specially designed to seamlessly facilitate communication across organizations. Featuring powerful tools and services integrated into a single platform, Slack provides private channels to promote interaction within smaller teams, direct channels to help send messages directly to colleagues, and public channels that enables members across organizations to start conversations. Available on Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS apps, Slack offers a plethora of features that include chat, file sharing, collaborative workspace, real-time notifications, two-way audio and video, screen sharing, document imaging, activity tracking and logging, and more.
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    Starting Price: $6.67 per user per month
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    Microsoft Teams
    Solving today's complex business problems takes teams of engaged people working together. We’ve built an online guide to teach you and your team the secrets of successful teamwork. When you have a place to create and make decisions as a team, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. Teams brings everything together in a shared workspace where you can chat, meet, share files, and work with business apps. Get your team on the same page with group chat, online meetings, calling, and web conferencing. Collaborate on files with built-in Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint. Add in your favorite Microsoft apps and third-party services to keep the business moving forward. Get end-to-end security, administrative control, and compliance—all powered by Microsoft 365. Teams is designed for groups of all kinds. Get started with the free, no-commitments version. You can also get Teams as part of the best-in-class suite of productivity tools.
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    Starting Price: $12.50 per user per month
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    Flock

    Flock

    Flock

    Your team’s communication hub. Team messaging, video+audio calling, productivity apps and more. Flock makes communication and collaboration effortless. Get all the features you need in one easy-to-use tool. Work smarter with Flock's all-in-one messaging, video conferencing, and productivity tool. Stay connected with Flock's powerful built-in video conference feature. Up to 20 attendees can meet in real-time. You can even screen share with just a click. Powerful search helps you find anything shared in Flock, whether it’s a message, file, or link. Use our powerful suite of business collaboration tools - Shared To-Dos, Polls, Note Sharing, Reminders, and more - to optimize project management. Flock offers over 50 integrations with tools like Asana, Twitter, Googe Drive, and Todoist. Add your apps in Flock with one click and you’ll never need to switch tools to get work done.
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    Starting Price: $4.50 per user per month
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    Cisco Jabber
    Collaborate anywhere, on any device. Mobility doesn’t have to limit productivity. Cisco Jabber delivers instant messaging, voice and video calls, voice messaging, desktop sharing, conferencing, and presence. Find the right people, see whether and how they’re available, and collaborate more effectively. Collaborate with your teams, wherever they are. Collaborate effectively when you’re at your desk. Collaborate anywhere on your Android smartphone and tablet. Use your Apple iPhone or iPad to communicate on the go. Discover the power of the hub as your launch pad for connecting and collaborating with Cisco Jabber.
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    Zoho Cliq
    Zoho Cliq is a business communication software that helps simplify and streamline your communication with organized conversations and information that's easy to find. Cliq is designed to enable a hybrid work style, where you can log in to work through any device from anywhere. This helps improve your team's overall productivity and, in turn, impacts the performance of your business positively.
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    Starting Price: $2
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    Facebook Messenger
    Turn conversation into customer loyalty with Messenger. Messenger helps you simplify customer acquisition by providing a direct, conversational way for people to take action where they already spend their time. Building a presence on Messenger allows people to browse your products and services, and purchase them directly in the conversation. Building an experience on Messenger can help get your business, product or service in front of more people. Whether you’re launching a new product or driving awareness, conversation creates a meaningful connection with your business. Integrating Messenger into a customer service strategy allows customers to communicate with your business on their terms. No more waiting on hold or keeping website windows open. And the conversation stays in Messenger, an easily accessible spot for questions and re-engagement.
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    Element

    Element

    Element

    Element is a secure communications platform built on Matrix: a decentralised and end-to-end encrypted protocol. Bring your teams together, boost productivity and workplace satisfaction, while retaining complete ownership of your data. Element is a leader in the Forrester Wave: Secure Communications report. Easily collaborate with your partners, suppliers or clients with video calls and instant messaging: like email for the 21st century. You can even connect your Slack, MS Teams, WhatsApp accounts. On the other hand Element can be closed for high security environments using secure border and cross domain gateways, and even air-gapped deployments. Being built on Matrix, there is no single point of failure for the network thanks to the decentralised network architecture, making it perfect for mission-critical environments. Please contact us to explore how your business can benefit from Element.
    Starting Price: $5 Per Monthly Active User
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    AWS Wickr
    AWS Wickr is a secure, end-to-end encrypted messaging platform designed for enterprises and government agencies to facilitate confidential communication. It supports text, voice, video, file sharing, and screen sharing with robust data protection and compliance capabilities. AWS Wickr ensures messages are encrypted at rest and in transit, with content expiration and ephemeral messaging features to reduce data retention risks. The platform allows for seamless collaboration while maintaining strict security, privacy, and regulatory standards. It is widely used in industries requiring high levels of confidentiality, such as defense, healthcare, and financial services.
    Starting Price: $5/user/month
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    Wire

    Wire

    Wire

    Wire protects critical communications for the world’s most security-demanding organizations. Wire's highest security standards enable users to communicate securely, thanks to the most advanced encryption and its Zero-Trust architecture, while facilitating user administrators to manage and control their organization's information, guaranteeing the sovereignty of their data. Created by the founders of Skype, Wire provides end-to-end encryption for messages, audio and video conferencing, file exchange, external collaboration, and beyond. Used by most of the world's G7 governments and other security-critical organizations globally, Wire is pushing the limits of secure communication, pioneering work for standardized encryption with Messaging Layer Security. To learn more, visit wire.com
    Starting Price: 7.45€
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    Lark

    Lark

    ByteDance

    The next-gen collaboration suite. All your chats, meetings, calendars, docs, and emails in one place. These organisations have made Lark their all-in-one solution for collaboration. Lark is a comprehensive productivity superapp designed to streamline collaboration. It combines chat, meetings, document editing,project management, and automation tools in one intuitive platform, simplifying your workflow and enhancing team communication. It suits teams of all sizes, from small groups to large multinational companies. By utilizing Lark Base, teams have the ability to construct a CRM solution that aligns with their present requirements and is capable of expanding along with the business. Additionally, Lark is well-equipped to serve as a project management tool, providing project managers with robust features for planning, tracking, and executing projects effectively.
    Starting Price: $12/user/month
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    Noysi

    Noysi

    Noysi

    Noysi is a platform which will make your communication easier and more effective among team members, employees around the world, customers, agencies, consultants, other providers, and much more. Real-time conversations organized in open, private channels, and messages 1 to 1. Storage Unlimited cloud storage, where all files are encrypted and secure. An advanced Task Manager where you can organize your projects super fast. Video Calls, Screen Sharing and Broadcast, 1 to 1 and group calls. An indexed browser divided into messages, members, channels, and files. ALL at once. An app integrator for being able to use all your current tools in Noysi. Organize your company into teams, departments, or projects. Communicating by open channels, 1 to 1 messages, and private groups. Having the possibility of inviting unlimited partners. Noysi provides you a task manager which enables to keep your projects under control.
    Starting Price: €4 per user per month
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    Threema Work

    Threema Work

    Threema GmbH

    Threema Work is a secure and GDPR-compliant business messenger that facilitates mobile communication in companies and organizations. The messaging app is easy to use and doesn’t require a phone number or email address. With Threema Broadcast, companies can reach their entire staff, individual recipients, and external partners with a single click. Threema MDM allows administrators to preconfigure the app and make sure it’s used in line with corporate policies. Threema Work is a chat solution tailored to the needs of companies, organizations, schools, and governments that require the highest level of security in their business communication. Secure, easy-to-use, and privacy-compliant business messenger with an extensive feature set for efficient corporate communication. “Threema dominates as a privacy-first and flexible business communications app.” The Forrester Wave™: Secure Communications Solutions, Q3 2024
    Starting Price: $ 2.00 per user, per month
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    Jamespot

    Jamespot

    Jamespot

    Jamespot is the number one french cloud software for communication and collaboration needs of businesses of all sizes wether at the organizational level or at the teams level. 1. An interface to your own image 🎨 Graphic charter, name, logo, menu, wording... Jamespot is 100% configurable according to your needs. 2. Countless possibilities 🚀 Thanks to our 100 native and partners apps, Jamespot covers 100% of your collaborative needs. Our open API allows you to connect Jamespot to O365, GSuite and countless other solutions. 3. Accessible from your phone 📱 Thanks to the Jamespot mobile application, your platform follows you wherever you are. 4. A 100% secure french solution 🔐 The datas are hosted in France and we complie with all the GDPR requirements. We even have certifications that allow us to host health datas. 5. Ultra rapid deployment 🚄 You are in a hurry? From a few days or a few weeks, our team adapts to your rythm accompanies you throughout the deployment.
    Starting Price: 6$/user/month
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    Zulip

    Zulip

    Zulip

    Chat for distributed teams. Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones. Zulip has modern apps for every major platform, powered by Electron and React Native. Zulip is 100% open source software, built by a vibrant community of hundreds of developers from all around the world. With 120,000 words of developer documentation, a high quality code base, and a welcoming community, it’s easy to extend or tweak Zulip. Zulip has a significantly larger and more active development community than other modern open source group chat solutions like Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, and matrix.org. Zulip has more than 90 native integrations. Several hundred more are available through Hubot, Zapier, and IFTTT. Or build your own integrations with Zulip’s powerful API.
    Starting Price: $6.67 per user per month
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    CloudMeet

    CloudMeet

    Crest Infosolutions Pte Ltd

    Self-hosted and end-to-end encrypted Online Meeting, Team Chat, Audio/Video Calling and Communication Channels Solution for Enterprises. Following features are included in this release: 1. Join meeting from mobile by entering meeting id, password and name. 2. Login into CloudMeet using your credentials. 3. Initiate instant meeting or schedule a virtual meeting for later date. 4. View, accept/reject invites and start or join meetings. 5. Instant 1-to-1 or Group Chat with your colleagues with push notifications. 6. Instant 1-to-1 or Group Audio or Video calling with your colleagues.
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    DG1

    DG1

    DG1

    DG1 is an all-in-one AI E-Business suite with enterprise-level capabilities for small and medium-sized businesses. It is affordably delivered through the cloud as a SaaS. DG1 is more than E-commerce, DG1 is E-Business To grow your digital revenues, you need an E-Business system to catch new consumers and keep them with you. All in one Digital Growth System. One system, multiple sites. Nothing to install, nothing to maintain. Grow your business by 1000% or more in 12 months. More ways to interact with your customers. DG1 means you own the big data generated by your E-Business. As you grow, you save more and stay connected to the size of your E-Business. Trusted by leading brands and business associations. E-commerce. Fully integrated online shop with a wide choice of promotion tools, patented Flip-Commerce© technology, proven to increase sales, one-click add to cart system and many more neat features.
    Starting Price: $290 per month
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    Messagenius

    Messagenius

    Messagenius

    MESSAGENIUS - SECURE ENTERPRISE MESSAGING Messagenius is the enterprise messaging for secure, smart and integrated communications among colleagues: - Runs on your own private servers/clouds; - Enhances productivity with dedicated features; - Integrates into any software in use; - Gets 100% customisable and comes in white-label by default. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES Messagenius has 3 main competitive advantages in comparison with the mainstream messaging apps (WhatsApp, Slack, Skype, etc.): 1. SECURITY, DATA OWNERSHIP & COMPLIANCE - It runs on the customer’s private servers (on-premises/private-cloud). 2. PRODUCTIVITY - UX and UI are 100% customizable, up to white label. 3. INTEGRATION - It integrates into and with any software in use. TECHNOLOGY Messagenius is available for Android, iOS, web & desktop as: stand-alone messaging app, branded and customised in white label; add-on messaging feature, integrated into other software via SDK.
    Starting Price: $8 per user per month
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    Powell Teams

    Powell Teams

    Powell Software

    We connect organizations with employees through Powell 365, a full Digital Workplace made up of: • Powell Intranet for Corporate Communications and Employee Engagement • Powell Teams to enhance Microsoft Teams with governance for IT and improved usage for end-users The sudden adoption of Microsoft Teams by millions has led to a sprawl of teams. Too many teams and a lack of organization can leave users lost in a haze of messages and documents. With Powell teams, take collaboration and governance to the next level and solve these problems with: • An easy-to-use dashboard for improved navigation, visualization, and search to quickly find teams and their relevant information • A catalog of customized team templates for daily scenarios • Governance rules set by the IT and automatically integrated into each team creation process • An easy teams administration interface Save 20 minutes each time you create a new team! Choose the teams template that matches your needs and collabo
    Starting Price: Powell Teams pricing for 1000 seats is 1,3$ USD / month / user
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    Saysimple

    Saysimple

    Saysimple

    Meet Your New Customer Communications Platform Introducing a single platform that allows you to communicate with customers via any channel. Enjoy closer collaboration, effective workflows and more satisfied customers. Collaborate more efficiently by using a central hub for all incoming messages. Be more accessible, more flexible and build better workflows across WhatsApp Business, Messenger, Livechat, Apple Business Chat and email. Platform: ✓ Multichannel Inbox ✓ Analytics & Insights Channels & features: ✓ WhatsApp Business API ✓ Social Messaging ✓ Outbound Messaging ✓ Livechat ✓ Chat widget ✓ Teams module ✓ Smart routing ✓ Call deflection ✓ Tag & label management ✓ User management ✓ Contact management
    Starting Price: €15 per user per month
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    Missive

    Missive

    Missive

    The team inbox and chat tool that empowers teams to truly collaborate around email, SMS, WhatsApp, Twitter, Messenger, live chat, and more. We redesigned the inbox with a business-first collaborative experience in mind. With Missive, teams focus on growing their business. Everything you need to get the job done. The Team Inbox is offered as a powerful workflow setting for your shared accounts and addresses.
    Starting Price: $10 per user per month
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    Zimbra

    Zimbra

    Synacor

    Zimbra 9 : Extensibility for Collaboration Superheroes! Users move seamlessly between desktop, mobile and tablet browsers with a consistent email and collaboration experience. Designed for extensibility and features best- in-class, out-of-the-box integrations with Slack, Dropbox and Zoom, with many more underway. Zimlet framework and APIs let you customize Zimbra to meet your specific requirements. Zimbra’s dependable server infrastructure for the security, privacy and data sovereignty Zimbra customers expect. Expect an easy upgrade process moving to Zimbra 9 — with no data migration. Zimbra 9's modern, responsive UI is built on Zimbra's dependable server infrastructure for the security, privacy and data sovereignty you expect from Zimbra. Unlike competitors with closed platforms, Zimbra 9 is flexible and extensible. Break free from Microsoft and Google and integrate with the 3rd party collaboration services you use today—Slack, Zoom, Dropbox and more.
    Starting Price: Varies
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    iPost

    iPost

    iPost

    Finally, an email platform that is built for marketers by marketers. The easiest, most flexible, and dynamic marketing automation solution for your email and mobile needs. Tired of legacy platforms that are too expensive, too hard to learn, or that you’ve outgrown? You’re not alone. iPost has the tools you need. Plus the platform is easy to learn and flexible enough to adapt as you grow. The iPost email platform was built to fit the needs of today’s marketers with the scalability and features needed to grow with marketers of the future. iPost brings powerful features to email marketing with technology that is responsive, flexible, and easy to use. Real-time data to fuel audience discovery, targeting, and personalization. Intuitive reporting, from campaign, trends, to funnel and conversion tracking. Drag and drop personalization, dynamic content, and code-free design tool. Check why iPost is a recognized as a leader in The Relevancy Ring 2019 Enterprise ESP Buyers Guide.
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    maaiiconnect
    maaiiconnect makes customer engagement simple. It is the only cloud-based platform that brings digital and telecom communications together to help businesses deliver seamless customer experiences. Be a truly omnichannel business. Centralise channels such as WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, SMS, Virtual Numbers, Video Conferencing, and a Web Communications Widget for Live Chat and Web Calls into one place with full customer relationship history, customer data, CRM, ticketing system, and rich insights.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Matrix

    Matrix

    The Matrix.org Foundation

    An open network for secure, decentralized communication. Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralized, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations. Matrix gives you simple HTTP APIs and SDKs (iOS, Android, Web) to create chatrooms, direct chats and chat bots, complete with end-to-end encryption, file transfer, synchronized conversation history, formatted messages, read receipts and more. Matrix provides state-of-the-art end-to-end-encryption via the Olm and Megolm cryptographic ratchets. This ensures that only the intended recipients can ever decrypt your messages, while warning if any unexpected devices are added to the conversation. Matrix owes its name to its ability to bridge existing platforms into a global open matrix of communication. Bridges are core to Matrix and designed to be as easy to write as possible, with Matrix providing the highest common denominator language to link the networks.
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    GigaIOT

    GigaIOT

    GigaIOT

    Contact your friends and family anywhere for free on an all in one social payments platform. Send text messages, emojis, voice notes, images, videos and files privately to your friends and family. Keep in touch with your favourite groups of people, family, friends and work colleagues. Share text messages, emojis, voice notes, images, videos and files. Platform encryption to protect conversation privacy. Integrate with Visa card, Master card, Paypal, Ecocash etc. Bank-level security, access to bank depository systems, compliance, security. P2P transfer, group transfer, donations, rewards, pay biller, pay merchant, top up mobile balance, pay for utilities. On a social payments platform that offer an open API for business partner integration to deliver more fun. Share your memorable moments and express them in a lot of ways, text, photos, video, voice notes. Your friends can click and purchase commodities you post or share on your moments timeline.
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