InTouch Messenger vs Element (formerly Riot)

Allows sharing any kind of file over the Internet.

The app allow shaking the phone to discover nearby people interested in starting a conversation. The app also allows constantly sharing your location with contacts for a set amount of time.

The app has peer to peer video chat.

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.

Code snippets in chats can be highlighted with Markdown.

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

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

Want to watch that flick at YouTube and discuss it at the same time? Have Grafana graphs stacked above your DevOps team chat? Collaboratively edit Google Docs and chat over without switching applications? This is possible with Element.

An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

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

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

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