Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to SafariWhen comparing Beejive vs Messenger, the Slant community recommends Messenger for most people. In the question“What are the best messaging apps for iOS?” Messenger is ranked 15th while Beejive is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose Messenger is:
Allows communicating with anyone who's a friend on Facebook.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Automatically reconnects
Beejive will also automatically reconnects after being out of network coverage and sends you any messages you received while offline.
Pro High level of customizability for power users
Nearly all of the core features and visual elements can be tweaked.
Pro Share Files
Send and receive files, including pictures and voice notes.
Pro Customizable chat skins & emoticon support
Pro Information stored locally
All account information (usernames & passwords) are stored locally on your Android smartphone and not kept on our servers.
Pro Email your chats
Pro Full Unicode support
Chat in any language supported by your iPhone
Pro Chat Protocol Support
- IM®/MobileMe®
- MSN®/Windows Live®
- Yahoo!®
- GoogleTalk®
- MySpace
- Jabber
Pro Uses Facebook friends to create a contacts list
Allows communicating with anyone who's a friend on Facebook.
Pro Read receipts
Can see who has seen each message in group messages.
Pro Easy to share posts from Facebook
Integration with Facebook makes it easy to share any interesting posts from the Facebook timeline.
Pro Great UI
User interface of the application is clean, intuitive and easy to overview.
Cons
Con Does not support Skype
Con Lack of privacy
Messenger is owned by Facebook. Based on their privacy policy, this means that any information you provide (including messages sent) are used by Facebook to profile you and sell access to your data to advertisers.
Con Lack of end-to-end encryption
Secret (end-to-end encrypted) chats are only supported in one-to-one messages, and are not enabled by default, and the encryption has not been verified independently.
