Dialpad is an AI cloud communications platform founded in 2011 in San Francisco, USA, with real-time voice-to-text across voice, video meetings, and contact center, local numbers in 100+ countries, and a valuation above $4 billion in 2022.
💬 Communication
Compare 253 communication and business tools covering messaging, video conferencing, project management, CRM and more.
Element is an end-to-end encrypted messaging client built on the open Matrix protocol, headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with E2EE by default, decentralized federation, open source, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.
Google Chat is the team messaging tool built into Google Workspace, supporting 1-on-1 and group chats with threaded discussions, deeply integrated with Gmail, Drive, and Meet, and supporting bot automation.
Google Voice is Google's VoIP phone service launched in 2009, offering a free US local virtual number, free voicemail transcription, and free US/Canada calls and texts. The personal tier is free and the business tier integrates with Workspace as a lightweight phone communication solution.
GoTo Meeting is a veteran online meeting platform launched by Citrix in 2004 and now part of the GoTo group, headquartered in Boston, USA. It supports up to 250 participants per meeting and 3,000 in GoTo Webinar, with AI transcription and summaries for enterprise remote collaboration.
Jitsi is an open-source video conferencing project that began as SIP software in 2003 and is now maintained by 8x8, offering the free no-registration meet.jit.si service and fully self-hosted deployment, built on WebRTC with an end-to-end encryption option for privacy- and sovereignty-minded teams.
KakaoTalk is South Korea's national instant messaging app launched in 2010, covering over 97% of Korean smartphone users and evolving into a super app that combines chat, KakaoPay payments, KakaoBank banking, and mobility services.
Lifesize is a professional video conferencing provider founded in Austin, Texas, in 2003. Its Icon series 4K room systems and Lifesize Cloud cover hybrid work, interoperating with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, and Google Meet, and serving 10,000+ businesses worldwide.
LINE is a national-level instant messaging app launched by NHN Japan in 2011, with over 190 million monthly active users across Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. It has grown from a chat tool into a super app spanning payments, news, e-commerce, and music, and LINE Official Account is the standard channel for businesses to reach Japanese users.
Matrix is an open, decentralized communication protocol initiated in 2014 by a UK team, with native end-to-end encryption and federated self-hosting. The specification now at v1.19 is widely adopted by governments, enterprises and open-source communities as a data-sovereign messaging infrastructure.
Nextiva is a UCaaS platform founded in 2008 in Arizona, serving 100,000+ businesses with cloud phone, video meetings, contact center, and CRM in one solution, backed by a 99.999% uptime SLA.
Rocket.Chat is an open-source team communication platform initiated in 2015, offering free self-hosting, end-to-end encryption, and Matrix federation, officially serving 12M+ users and 100,000+ organizations - a Slack alternative for organizations that prioritize data sovereignty and compliance.
Session is a decentralized end-to-end encrypted messaging app that lets you register anonymously with a 66-character Session ID and routes messages through 1000+ service nodes, a leading tool for privacy and anonymous communication.
Skype is a VoIP pioneer founded in Luxembourg in 2003 and acquired by Microsoft for USD 8.5 billion in 2011, offering free audio/video calls and low-cost international calling, now being replaced by Microsoft Teams.
Splashtop was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, USA, providing high-performance 4K/60fps remote desktop and remote support; officially serving 300,000+ businesses, with a free Personal plan and Business Access from $5/user/month.
StarLeaf is a UK cloud video conferencing and unified communications platform founded in 2008, supporting up to 300 participants per meeting with a 99.999% uptime guarantee. The platform ceased operations in 2022; this page documents its capabilities and selection lessons.
Symphony is a secure communication platform for the financial industry founded in 2014 in New York, United States, offering end-to-end encrypted messaging, compliance archiving, and trading workflow integration to hundreds of thousands of financial professionals.
TeamViewer, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Goppingen, Germany, is a leading remote desktop and remote support software deployed on 2.5+ billion devices across 200+ countries, with a free personal edition for everyday remote assistance.
Teamwire is an enterprise secure messaging platform founded in 2015 in Munich, Germany, using AES-256 end-to-end encryption with EU-hosted data, GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance and private deployment support.
Twilio is a cloud communications API platform (CPaaS) founded in 2008 in San Francisco and listed on the NYSE in 2016, covering 180+ countries. SMS is about $0.0079 per segment and voice about $0.013 per minute, with SendGrid acquired in 2019 and Segment in 2020.
Viber is an encrypted instant messaging and calling app with over 1 billion registered users, offering end-to-end encryption by default, free HD voice and video calls, and low-cost Viber Out international calling.
Vonage is a global cloud communications (CPaaS) platform under Ericsson, with SMS coverage across 190+ countries and voice across 60+ countries, offering SMS, voice, Verify 2FA, video, and omnichannel messaging APIs with a 99.99% SLA.
WeCom, launched by Tencent in 2016, is an enterprise communication and collaboration platform connected to more than 10 million organizations, interoperating with personal WeChat to reach over 1 billion users with built-in approvals, attendance and document OA.
WhatsApp Business is Meta's free business messaging app for small businesses, providing a business profile, a catalog of up to 500 products, auto-replies and message labels for customer service and marketing directly in WhatsApp.