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What are the best cross platform instant messaging apps?

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The Best 1 of 13 OptionsWhy?

Best cross platform instant messaging apps	Price	Platforms	Audio recording
92 Element (formerly Riot)	Free	MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, Browser, iOS	Yes
86 Signal	-	Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X	Yes
70 Telegram	-	Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows phone, UWP	Yes
-- Wire	-	Web iOS Android OSX Windows Linux	No
-- Rocket.Chat	-	Web iOS Android OSX Windows Linux	-

Element (formerly Riot)

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Top Pro

Uses Matrix, the open communications protocol

Top Con

Buggy

Thousands of bug reports open on GitHub. See More

Haldrin's Experience

The best and the real private messenger app. Thanks to developers ! See More

Specs

Platforms:MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, Browser, iOS

Audio recording:Yes

Publisher: New Vector Ltd

End-to-end encryption:Yes (optional)

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Open Source

Regger's Experience

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Supports Encryption

Allows for fully encrypted text, voice, and video chatting. See More

ssp's Experience

Supports encryption of group chats See More

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Supports text, voice, video

Integrates with Jitsi for multi-party video chats. See More

Top Pro

Decentralization

Everybody can run their own server that can be connected to the global network. See More

Top Pro

Bridges to other networks

You're not confined within Element's or even Matrix garden, and you don't have to make users of other networks switch to Matrix. See More

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Actively developed

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Web and mobile (iOS, Android) versions available

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Etherpad real-time document collaboration

An easy to activate integration that allows multiple authors to edit a document simultaneously. See More

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Simple interface

Element has a very simple interface, adding the ability for more unexperienced users to use it. See More

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Large community

Either join the thousands of public rooms or create your own community! See More

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Search

Search messages in your current room, or all the rooms you're in. Not subject to a message history limit like Slack. See More

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End-to-end encrypted by default

So that the server(s) can’t see your data. See More

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Cross platform

Web browser Linux OS X Windows Android iOS See More

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Large existing community

With public rooms for many people, and you can create your own and let people from the community join. See More

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Self-hosting and federated network

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Libre/open source

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Decentralized

An open network for secure, decentralized communication. See More

Top Pro

Supports encryption

Element allows for fully encrypted text, voice, and video chatting. See More

Top Pro

VOIP and Videoconferencing

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Markdown support

Code snippets in chats can be highlighted with Markdown. See More

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Fire Sharing

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Permalink

Able to use permalink to refer the specificed message or media. It is useful for other system to make reference. See More

12 Other Options Considered

Signal

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Works everywhere in every country

Unlike most messenger apps, Signal works reliably in all countries by securely circumventing internet censorship. See More

Top Con

Unreliable notifications

Sometimes messages won't be received if the Signal app has been closed for a long time or hasn't been opened after booting the device. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

Audio recording:Yes

Publisher:Open Whisper Systems

End-to-end encryption:Yes

Top Pro

Free and open source

Signal is free and open source software, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code. It's the only private messenger that uses open source, peer-reviewed cryptographic protocols to keep your messages safe. See More

Top Con

Cannot use in China

Signal has been blocked in China. See More

Top Pro

Provides security and privacy

Signal uses an advanced end to end encryption protocol that provides privacy for every message every time. See More

Top Con

Cannot sync old message

According to Signal’s privacy terms, your old message cannot sync. See More

Top Pro

Collects less data

Signal might only collect your phone number. See More

Top Con

Needs an application on computer

Signal cannot using on web. You must install Signal on your device. See More

Top Pro

Annonymous Sender (Encrypted)

The sender credentials can be encrypted with the rest of the message, leaving only the recipient address readable by the Signal server. Even if Signal wanted they couldn't see who is talking with who by this mean. See More

Top Con

Single device

You cannot send and receive messages from multiple devices. See More

Top Pro

Message mirroring on Signal Desktop

Signal Desktop is a Chrome extension that allows you to mirror messages from your phone, including replying. See More

Top Con

Cant use it on desktop without your phone

Top Pro

Recommended by Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden uses this messenger and recommends it to everony who is concerned about his privacy. See More

Top Con

Needs access to your phone number and contacts to work

Top Pro

SMS/MMS support

Signal can be your default SMS/MMS text messenger. Encryption is not possible when sending SMS to your contacts, however. See More

Top Pro

You can easily view all media exchanged

You can easily view all media shared in the chat without scrolling back to when it was shared. See More

Top Pro

Supports sharing of various different media types

Signal supports: emoji, pictures, videos, audio, contacts, any location and GIF. See More

Top Pro

Note to Self feature

Allows you to send messages to yourself and sync to the desktop so you can use Signal as a kind of encrypted Pushbullet alternative. See More

Top Pro

Supports encrypted group chats

Telegram

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Free and convenient large file sharing

Copy/paste videos, gifs, images, geolocation, and documents, drag over files for practically any time up to 1.5GB in size. Images can be compressed, too. See More

Top Con

Can only be used with a phone number

It is not possible to activate and use Telegram by mail etc. You need a phone number. See More

ReliableAchuhucanac's Experience

windows app has the phonecall button ANOYINGLY close to the minimize button. I've called friends at 4am about a 1000 times just trying to minimize the freaking window. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Windows phone, UWP

Audio recording:Yes

Publisher:Various companies affiliated with Telegram

End-to-end encryption:Secret chats

Top Pro

Free

The application is available free of cost. See More

Top Con

In groups you can't see who has read your message

In groups, you can only see that someone has read your message, but you can't see who of the members has seen it. This is very good solved in Google Hangouts, for example. See More

PositiveIakhsari's Experience

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Top Pro

Secure

Telegram uses an open source MTProto encryption protocol that provides complete end-to-end encryption for secret chats. To show off their confidence in the protocol the company behind Telegram has organized $200,000 and $300,000 challenges to break the encryption. So far there have been no winners. See More

Top Con

Not fully open source

Telegram has an open API and protocol free for everyone, but the backend software is not open source. Therefore 100% privacy can not be evaluated. See More

NDS Nexwave Developer's Experience

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Top Pro

Beautiful UI

Very customizable with a lot of clean looking options. See More

Top Con

Only "Secret Chat" messages are encrypted end to end

The only way to get end-to-end encryption (client-client) using Telegram is to use the Secret Chat function, anything through the service is server-client encrypted. Also secret chat is only implemented in the mobile apps, meaning there is no way to encrypt messages end-to-end when using the desktop client or the web browser client. See More

Top Pro

Possible to send photos and videos without compression

Top Con

No team options

Top Pro

Unlimited history

You can check your history back to the date you started using Telegram. See More

Top Pro

Privacy focused

In addition to the end-to-end encryption that provides privacy to communications, the app also includes self destructing timers for chats, and the ability to permanently delete messages, yours and theirs, from your device. See More

Top Pro

Save time with inline bots and link previews

Unfortunately on the desktop, videos don't apply, but images are viewable without visiting popular websites like imgur and Instagram. You can play YouTube videos and others within the app, so you don't need the embed code or anything. With inline bots, such as @gif, @pic/bing, @vid/YouTube, etc, you can look things up without leaving the client or chat that you're in. Simply type the name and some keywords and wait for the results to load. See More

Top Pro

2-step verification

You can set up an additional password to your account, which can be reset by your email. You don't have to use an email, if you do not want to. If you lose access to your email or forget your password, you will be able to reset if via text message if you're account is over seven days old and will receive it within a week (in case you recover anything before then). See More

Top Pro

Channels for one way broadcasting

Broadcasting channels suitable for announcing things. See More

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Saved messages

You can write messages to yourself. You can write some notes, add links, and see everything across all your devices. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android iOS, Windows Phone, and Firefox OS even. Has a web app that changes it's appearance based on the device it's running on and if its browser is full screen, etc. See More

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Multiplatform native client apps

There are native desktop, mobile and web client apps, that are optimized for speed and are light on memory usage. See More

Top Pro

High quality calls

Uses the latest GPL audio codecs, such as Opus, an adaptative high-quality codec that supersedes AAC at any bitrate. See More

Top Pro

Pinned Messages

You can pin messages to the top of groups or supergroups so members will see them when opening the group. See More

Top Pro

Cloud chat keys are kept in different jurisdiction

Even though encryption used for cloud-based storage (e.g. Gmail, Facebook, iCloud) may not be as secure as end-to-end encryption or zero-knowledge storage, Telegram does the most that it can by holding keys to chats in different jurisdictions, requiring intergovernmental cooperation to obtain the keys. This is aside from whatever other security measures have been taken, of course. See More

Top Pro

Free of cost

The application is available free of cost. See More

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Open source client apps

Client apps are open source, making whole service more trustworthy. See More

Top Pro

Desktop app handles HIDPI

The desktop app has a built in setting to scale the UI of the app up to 200% which allows for those with 4k monitors/screens to use the app without scaling issues. See More

Top Pro

@mentions

You can ping people to get their attention by @mentioning them. See More

Top Pro

Unlimited storage

Unlimited number of files can be stored forever on the cloud. You can upload files up to 1.5 GB each. See More

Top Pro

Supergroups of up to 100,000 people

In Supergroups, anyone along with admins can delete their messages from all sides. A message can be pinned to the top. All of the user's messages can be deleted by an administrator, and they can be banned and reported as well. Supergroups can have a public link (outside of Asia, due to high spam volumes), which is also a username. See More

Top Pro

Voice and video messages

You can post voice and video messages if you are too lazy to write text messages. See More

Top Pro

Customer support is within the app

Although it's volunteer based, but still pretty top-notch if available, which it tends to be. See More

Top Pro

Self-destruct messages

Messages can be set on a timer. They will disappear after the timer expires. See More

Top Pro

No ads in Groups

There will never be advertisement in group canals. Note. In big broadcast canals an option will be given if advertisement is available (based on broadcast canal description — NOT its contents) or preferred to opt-out easily (based on new subscription model). See More

Top Pro

Group Voice Chat

This Discord-like feature adds to the interactivity of the application. See More

Top Pro

Two-step verification

You can set up an additional password to your account, which can be reset by your email. You don't have to use an email if you do not want to. If you lose access to your email or forget your password, you will be able to reset it via text message if your account is over seven days old and will receive it within a week (in case you recover anything before then). See More

Top Pro

Supergroups of up to 200,000 people

In Supergroups, anyone along with admins can delete their messages from all sides. A message can be pinned to the top. All of the user's messages can be deleted by an administrator, and they can be banned and reported as well. Supergroups can have a public link (outside of Asia, due to high spam volumes), which is also a username. See More

Top Pro

Banned in China

Wire

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Centralized

Top Pro

Clean, modern interface

ConfidentAzimua's Experience

Laggy AF especially on Android. Messages taking sometimes an hour longer to get to my phone than my PC. The last weekend even voice clips are broken and distorted and voice calls only last a minute or so before you can't hear the other person, if it rings at all. I've had 2 tickets open on GitHub for over a week now without acknowledgement. If paying customers get the same level of service, this app could be dead by the end of the month. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web iOS Android OSX Windows Linux

Audio recording:No

Publisher:Wire Swiss GmbH

End-to-end encryption:Yes

Top Con

Poor support

Support is severely lacking. Don't bother trying to open a ticket unless you're a paying customer because they literally couldn't care less about the free users or beta testers. See More

CapableCeraon's Experience

For the past several months the phone app has been severely lagging. Basically it takes minutes to send any kind of message and then several more minutes for anything to happen and that's IF it doesn't crash out. It's very stable on the PC version though, and I originally got it for its multi-platform functionality. Also, they've broken the app in a way that won't allow files to be stored locally through the phone app. Again, the PC version works fine. See More

Briar

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Decentralized

Specs

Android version:4.1+

Rumble Talk

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Top Pro

Quick to load

Top Con

Proprietary software

Rumbletalk is a closed source service. See More

PersonableTskarishdida's Experience

It seamlessly integrated with my website. See More

Top Pro

in-chat payment

Allow paying for entering the chat, collect donations, send payment requests See More

ProudPholus's Experience

Was so easy to setup and use. Just what I needed for my online consulting business See More

Top Pro

moderated messages

Admin should approve any message before showing to all See More

DazzlingHedylogos's Experience

I was able to moderate our event (over 2,000 users) easily. The experience was flawless because of the way the messages were presented in the chat See More

Top Pro

Live calls

CheerfulGabija's Experience

The only messaging platform for group chat, with special features like: Moderated messages (approve before showing to all) Design the look and feel via CSS In-chat payments including paywall and donations See More

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Quick to load, pure JS, Html5 and CSS

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Strong Rest API

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Create many rooms in seconds

Discord

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Top Pro

Familiar for Slack users

For those that are used to the way Slack (a similar chat client) works, Discord will be familiar in its use, which lowers the learning curve quite a bit for those that have switched or tried Slack before. See More

Top Con

Anti-privacy license terms

HonestAsherah's Experience

I came to discord from teamspeak and skype era. Discord just changed communication so much for gamers. Before you would have to rely on skype or teamspeak servers but now its just discord. Nothing else comes close See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, Chrome

Audio recording:no

Videoconferencing:Yes

Top Pro

Supports video and text communication

Behaves and looks like Slack for regular text channels, but with the ability to create voice channels as well See More

Top Con

Proprietary software

Discord is closed-source, meaning their code isn't available for inspection or reproduction See More

PersistentGilgamesh's Experience

This thing is pretty pog for gamers See More

Top Pro

Easy setup

You can quickly send invites to people and they can join in using the web client without having to create an account or install the app. See More

Top Con

Based on Electron = eats a lot of ram

Top Pro

Ability to create bots

Discord provides an API for creating custom bots. See More

Top Con

Developer's previous company was sued for privacy violations, among other things

See: http://classactionlawsuitsinthenews.com/class-action-lawsuit-complaints/openfeint-green-international-privacy-class-action-lawsuit-complaint/ https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/closing-letters/openfeint-inc Discord's privacy policy also states that while they might not sell your data, a company they get sold to will quite possibly attain said data and thus may be in "more" shady hands. See More

Top Pro

Targeting of roles

Targeting roles allows for quickly requesting someone from a group e.g. artist, moderator, etc. See More

Top Con

No self-hosting avaliable

Discord is wholly hosted by Discord (the company), you cannot run private instances, and all servers are hosted on their infrastructure. For most people, this won't really impact their usage. See More

Top Pro

Android app has push notifications

Top Pro

Free for unlimited users

Unlimited amount of users. See More

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Has low-latency VoIP support

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Can be used in browser

Users can invite others to join a Discord channel via a web link, which means no installation is required to use the software - which is one of the big typical barriers to entry for social software. See More

Top Pro

DDoS mitigation

Discord prevents users from being DDoSed out of games. See More

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Dark theme out of the box

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Syntax highlighting and Markdown support

The support is limited but still exists. It's a killer feature for dev teams. See More

Top Pro

Good 1-click invite system

Discord allows inviting people to a specific channel with a link. Links can be set to expire. Low effort/passive invite mechanics. See More

Top Pro

Open source bots and management tools

Discord has a wide variety of bots for things from airhorn noises to automated server management, to leveling systems for chat. The bot API is open and there are dedicated sites for finding bots. See More

Top Pro

User friendly

Discord follows the same type of interface design popularised by Slack, which is extremely clean and attractive, and doesn't clutter the interface with unnecessary chrome and cruft. See More

Top Pro

Does not allow NSFW related things to be posted unless in a NSFW channel

Top Pro

Friendly payment policy

Free accounts have no tangible restrictions. Premium accounts are just a way to say "thank you" to developers. And it work for all servers of Discord (not as in Slack). And it can be purchased by anyone who wants it. In contrast to Slask, where all active members of the server should be "premium". See More

Top Pro

Language localization

Have localization for many language, including Russian. See More

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Ability to thread channels

Ability to create channel categories for channels to sit inside of. See More

Top Pro

Numerous controls for setting member roles.

Deny access, Deny write message, Allow read messages etc. See More

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Low effort invite mechanics

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Game integration

Discord shows which game each user is currently playing, which among other things helps users to form PUGs with minimal hassle. See More

Slack

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@mentions

You can ping people to get their attention even if they are not online by @mentioning them. Slack supports desktop notifications. See More

Top Con

Expensive when you need to upgrade

At $6.67 per user / month (or $8 if billed monthly) , Slack is significantly more expensive than the competition if you need features such as unlimited integrations (more than 10) or unlimited message storage (more than 10,000). However, the free version of Slack includes unlimited users. However if you need only unlimited messages you can use storage services like https://slarck.com to upload then browse and search your entire message history, while staying in Slack's free plan. So with a combo of Slack+Slarck this con is not that major. See More

Specs

Platforms:Chrome, iOS, Android, Mac OS, Windows

Service integrations:Yes

Screensharing:Yes

Top Pro

Robust integration with a huge number of tools

Slack integrates with tools like Trello, GitHub, Dropbox, Mailchimp, and dozens of others, so you can have a centralized event feed of your project right alongside your chat. This is tremendously useful for keeping context with your discussions. See More

Top Con

Proprietary (non-free/libre)

Top Pro

Drag & drop files in channels

You can upload a file to any channel over HTTPS simply by dragging and dropping. See More

Top Con

No self-hosting available

If you are worried about third-parties getting access to your data you should consider self-hosting. With self-hosting you are in control over where your data is stored, who has access to it. You will also not be vulnerable to exploits of a third-party provider. See More

Top Pro

Inline link previews (photos, mockups, etc.)

When a link is added, some content in the link is shown such as image - like how Facebook does it when you share a link. See More

Top Con

Hidden max limit of free users per channel

Slack says that their free accounts support an unlimited number of users, which is true. However they don't mention that there is an undisclosed maximum number of users per channel (8462). For a large open source community, this is something to keep in mind. See More

Top Pro

Edit messages easily

It allows you to change what you sent by hovering to the message and selecting "Edit message" under the ellipsis (...). See More

Top Con

No E2E encryption

Data is sent of SSL only, not E2E encrypted. See More

Top Pro

Shows local time of each participant

You can click on the profile of a user to see their local time. An especially useful feature when members of your team are working in different timezones. See More

Top Pro

Dev team is invested, responsive, and friendly

Having submitted both feedback and support requests for bot development, I can personally attest that the team takes feedback seriously, and responds quickly to communication. This is vital for any closed-source or hosted project. See More

Top Pro

Self chatting

Creative implementation which is very good for personal journaling or drafting/collecting ideas. Previously, to do this, users needed to create a private channel with themselves. Note that some other team-chat apps may disallow creating group/channel with no 2nd person(s). See More

Top Pro

It can surprise you

There's a checkbox in preferences under advanced options that may surprise you. See More

Top Pro

Multiple channels for different groups

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Fantastic search functionality

You can deep search messages, files and snippets. Given Slacks integration into many external services, Slack is good enough to act as the central search interface for your entire team. See More

Google Hangouts

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Owned by Google

Top Pro

Google Voice integration

Allows for a fixed phone number, receiving and making calls. Calling US or Canada is free. See More

AdaptableQuirinus's Experience

Although it is available as a standalone app, it doesn't minimize to system tray so users must ensure they don't close the chat window by accident See More

Specs

Platforms:iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, Web

Audio recording:0

End-to-end encryption:0

Top Con

Won't work on Windows 8-style UI

As Hangouts uses a browser plugin on the desktop and it doesn't work with Windows 8-style UI, it has to be used in desktop mode. See More

Top Pro

Free group video support

Hangouts works with up to 10 participants using video out of the box or up to 15 if you are a business, government or school. It determines who is the primary speaker at any given time, and the camera view automatically switches to that user. See More

Peter J. Mello's Experience

Instant messaging is an awful, fractured mess currently, and I have to use a ridiculous number of them in order to keep in touch with the people in my life. That said, if someone is on Hangouts that's the first place I turn to contact them, a habit which was borne when it gained Google Voice integration and allowed me to use a single interface to send and receive both IMs and SMS/MMS. That functionality has been reduced over time, but it remains enough to keep me coming back. See More

Top Con

Not recommended for long sessions

Top Pro

Mobile support

Hangouts offers both an Android and iOS app so users can participate from nearly any mobile device in addition to his Desktop. See More

Top Con

Lacking clients for older versions

Top Pro

Completely free

Google offers all features of Hangouts completely free. There are business, education and government solutions that increase the participant count to for video calls to 15 and offers support. See More

Top Pro

Cross platform

Hangouts work on Android, iOS, Chrome OS, web and as a Chrome extension. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with Google Maps for sharing locations

When chatting with people while trying to plan a meet up, the share map button can be extremely useful. See More

Top Pro

Easy to start using

Hangouts is integrated with Gmail & Google+, does not require you to download desktop software, and all chats can take place directly in your browser, significantly reducing the barrier to entry for a new user. See More

Top Pro

Useful for businesses

Hangouts can scale to become a videoconferencing solution for an entire company, since the software can run on nearly all platforms. In fact, Google itself uses Hangouts as its meeting room video conference software. See More

Top Pro

Live broadcasting and instant recording

With Google+ “Hangouts on Air”, you can broadcast any hangout to an unlimited audience via your Goolge+ Profile or simply a generic YouTube link. Moreover, any Hangout on Air (public or private) is automatically saved as YouTube video that you can keep for private reference or use in any way that you would normally share a YouTube video. This allows you to record conversations without additional obtrusive software. See More

Top Pro

Screen sharing

Any user can share his screen (or only a specific desktop or window) while still continuing an audio conversation. See More

WhatsApp

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Top Con

Shares meta data with Facebook

WhatsApp shares your messaging meta data with Facebook if you do not opt-out in the settings. If you use the same phone number for WhatsApp and Facebook, the profiles can easily be linked. See here. See More

Top Pro

Widely used

WhatsApp reported 1.5 billion users in 2018. Your friends are most likely already using WhatsApp, so it's easy to get setup. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android, iOS, Web, Mac, Windows, Windows Phone

Audio recording:Yes

Publisher:WhatsApp Inc.

End-to-end encryption:Yes

Top Con

Tied to carrier phone number

WhatsApp cannot be used by people without a smart phone with an active cell plan. If your phone is lost or damaged, or if your phone number changes, you cannot get messages sent by friends without them updating your phone number. You cannot send message to them until you are able to get SMS messages at your phone number. See More

Top Pro

Signal protocol

Whatsapp uses the state-of-the-art Signal protocol that ensure strong end-to-end encryption. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

Not open source. See More

Top Pro

Effortlessly builds your contacts by using your phone number as identification

WhatsApp will automatically find all of your contacts currently using Whatsapp and add them to your contacts. This makes it really easy to setup and given that it's the most popular messaging app it's likely that a lot of your contacts are already using it. See More

Top Con

Web interface uses message mirroring

To use your computer to send messages your phone must be on with a consistent data connection. See More

Top Pro

One-on-one texts can be encrypted

WhatsApp has implemented end to end encryption for messages sent on it's service. Even WhatsApp has no way to read a users messages. See More

Top Con

Single-device

You cannot use the same WhatsApp account on multiple devices (e.g. a tablet, a PC and a cellphone). The account is tied to the device with the specific cellphone number. Chat history is deleted when you sign in to a new account, unless you have created a backup. See More

Top Pro

Straightforward interface

The interface is very simple, fast and easy to use. You can start using it as soon as the app has been downloaded - it does not require setting anything up or registering. You can communicate with anyone in your contacts list that also uses WhatsApp. Includes useful features like seeing when a contact is currently available or typing. See More

Top Con

Limitation on shareable file sizes

WhatsApp now allows users to share files of any type, but there is still a 16 MB size limit. See More

Top Con

Single device

You cannot use the same WhatsApp account on multiple devices (e.g. a tablet, a PC and a cellphone). The account is tied to the device with the specific cellphone number. Chat history is deleted when you sign in to a new account, unless you have created a backup. See More

Top Con

No cloud sync

Messages are not stored on WhatsApp server for privacy and security reasons. See More

Top Con

Hard to migrate history cross platform

Migrating your chat history from Android to iOS or the other way around is not so simple. In some cases it requires a 3rd party app and in some the only way is to migrate specific chats one by one. See More

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