Best Messaging Software

Compare the Top Messaging Software as of March 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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    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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    Google Hangouts
    Use Hangouts to keep in touch. Message contacts, start free video or voice calls, and hop on a conversation with one person or a group. Include all your contacts with group chats for up to 150 people. Say more with status messages, photos, videos, maps, emoji, stickers, and animated GIFs. Turn any conversation into a free group video call with up to 10 contacts. Call any phone number in the world (and all calls to other Hangouts users are free!). Connect your Google Voice account for phone calling, SMS texting, and voicemail integration. Keep in touch with contacts across Android, iOS, and the web, and sync chats across all your devices. Message contacts anytime, even if they’re offline.
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    Skype

    Skype

    Microsoft

    Professional online meetings built for business. Easy to set up and join · Powerful collaboration tools. Made by Microsoft. With one click, anyone can join your online meeting, from any device. You can choose to meet right away, or schedule from Outlook for later. The meeting URL is personalized just for you. Record meetings, share your screen, and annotate PowerPoint for real-time collaboration with up to 250 people. Use whiteboard, polls, Q&A, and built-in IM during your business meetings to make them more productive. Expertly manage your online meetings with advanced calling options, like muting one or all participants and transferring presenter control. Trust in business-quality meetings with encrypted video and audio streams, and 24/7 phone support when needed. Enjoy industry-leading HD video for online meetings that feel top quality and trustworthy. Focus more on the people in your call, with added features like automatic cropping and head tracking.
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    Starting Price: $5.00 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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    Workplace from Meta
    Where teams connect to get work done. Unlimited tools for you and your team to work together, wherever you are. Connect everyone in your organization. Empower and transform your whole business, with familiar features like groups, chat and video calls. Over 30,000 global organizations large and small connect their teams with Workplace. Now it's your turn. Our instant messaging feature lets you chat 1-to-1 or in groups, reaching anyone in your organization with text, pictures, voice and video. When someone posts in a different language, Workplace offers to translate it there and then. Helping you become a truly global business. Groups are spaces for sharing updates, files, feedback and more. They're like email threads, but better organized and easier to follow. Org Chart lets you quickly look up coworkers and team info, so you spend less time wondering who to ask for help and more time getting things done.
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    Starting Price: $4 per user per month
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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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    Keet

    Keet

    Holepunch

    Video & Text. Private & Encrypted. Unparalleled Quality. Keet only shares end-to-end encrypted data between participants in your calls. Without middlemen, third-parties, or servers, there’s nobody left who can snoop or leak data. Keet video calls operate over direct connections between you and your friends, without using servers that can throttle your performance. You'll notice the difference. When you share a file in Keet, you don’t have to wait for it to upload. Other peers can immediately download it straight from the source. Megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes and no limits. As your app grows beyond the hobby phase, Holepunch lets you evolve into a business without compromises. With Bitcoin Lightning and USDt micropayments built-in, it's easy to implement and use powerful paid features in apps. Peers control everything about their own data, including how it’s bought and sold. The days of tokens, ads, hidden incentives, and data harvesting are over.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Nextcloud Talk
    Meetings with colleagues, customers and partners - have a personal conversation with one click. Keep conversations private with Nextcloud Talk. Nextcloud talk protects your communication better than other team collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams or Slack, making sure your data stays on your servers. Nextcloud Talk goes further than other encrypted communication technologies by keeping even metadata from leaking. This ensures you stay in complete control of communications. When SCM was looking for a simple, secure and well designed messenger platform that could be hosted on-premises, a decision was made for Nextcloud Talk. A Professional Services project from Nextcloud GmbH provided several features SCM required and today, the legal, human resource, financial and PR experts of SCM can easily communicate and collaborate during their business trips.
    Starting Price: $6.6 per user per month
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    BBM Enterprise

    BBM Enterprise

    BlackBerry

    Enterprise-grade Messaging and Conferencing Solution with End-to-end Security and Privacy. BBM® Enterprise offers secure text, voice, video, group chat and conferencing on any device, including smartphones and desktops. It’s the ideal communications solution for businesses and working professionals, with its end-to-end encryption on multiple endpoints, robust privacy policies and enterprise-grade features.
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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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    Jami

    Jami

    Jami

    Jami is completely peer-to-peer and doesn't require a server for relaying data between users. Jami is a GNU project backed by the Free Software Foundation and distributed under a GPLv3 license. We use state of the art end-to-end encryption with perfect forward secrecy for all communications and comply with the X.509 standard. Without restriction on file size, speed, bandwidth, features, number of accounts, storage or anything else. There will never be advertising on Jami. There will never be advertising on Jami. Latency is reduced and transfer speeds are greatly increased thanks to the direct peer-to-peer connection. Users who are on the same local network can communicate with Jami even if they are disconnected from the internet.
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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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    ooVoo

    ooVoo

    ooVoo

    ooVoo is a free instant messaging and video call app supported on Android, iOS, Windows and macOS. ooVoo’s Chains is a community driven platform that allows you to create unique contents and share with a large group of unified creators. The app with it’s cutting-edge technology supports uninterrupted HD video calling with upto 8 people simultaneously from anywhere around the world even with LTE network. ooVoo is cross platform instant voice and text messaging app which supports HD video calling simultaneously with 8 people. ooVoo allows users to communicate through free messaging, voice, and video chat. ooVoo video conferencing technology enabled high-quality video and audio calls with up to twelve participants simultaneously, HD video and desktop sharing. Video call with upto 8 people simultaneously in HD, text anywhere around the world, create unique contents and share it with the community.
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