When comparing Trillian vs Allo, the Slant community recommends Trillian for most people. In the question“What are the best messaging apps for iOS?” Trillian is ranked 13th while Allo is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose Trillian is:
You can set up a dedicated server to hold your communications. Great for businesses that want to build their own infrastructure.
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Pros
Pro In-house server support
You can set up a dedicated server to hold your communications. Great for businesses that want to build their own infrastructure.
Pro Multiple networks in one place
Among them Yahoo!, Facebook, Skype, Google, AIM, ICQ, XMPP, MSN. You can have multiple accounts associated with each service.
Pro Group chat
Trillian to Trillian group chat is available.
Pro Persists history
Your chat history is persisted by default (you can send incognito end-to-end encrypted self-destructing messages instead if you so desire).
Pro Allows self-destructing messages
You can send messages that will be removed from both parties after a defined period of time.
Pro Allows end-to-end encrypted incognito messages
Pro Assistant
The assistant is a bot that can help book, look up locations, restaurants, set up calendar events, etc.
Pro Full quality pictures
Cons
Con Supports all dead services.
Con Not yet released (should release in summer 2016)
