When comparing Vine Messages vs Allo, the Slant community recommends Vine Messages for most people. In the question“What are the best messaging apps for iOS?” Vine Messages is ranked 26th while Allo is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose Vine Messages is:
You can send messages to people outside of Vine.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can communicate outside of Vine
You can send messages to people outside of Vine.
Pro Video tools
Vine can capture a video for you and has a grid to help line up shots.
Pro Video messages
Videos can be up to six seconds long.
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 Can't share images or videos from camera roll
Con No group messaging
Con Not yet released (should release in summer 2016)
