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What are the best Messaging Tools?

Slack, Twilio, Microsoft Teams, HipChat, and Telegram are the most popular tools in the category “Messaging”. “Easy to integrate with” is the primary reason developers pick Slack over its competitors, while “Powerful, simple, and well documented api” is the reason why Twilio was chosen.

1st
Slack

Slack

122k stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Slack

  • •Easy to integrate with
  • •Excellent interface on multiple platforms
  • •Free
2nd
Twilio

Twilio

11.5k stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Twilio

  • •Powerful, simple, and well documented api
  • •RESTful API
  • •Clear pricing
3rd
Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams

2.42k stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Microsoft Teams

  • •Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow
  • •Mobile friendly
  • •Free
4th
HipChat

HipChat

1.26k stacks

Top Reasons to Choose HipChat

  • •Integrates well with a lot of developer tools
  • •Developer-friendly
  • •Clients for every major platform
5th
Telegram

Telegram

751 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Telegram

  • •Lightweight
  • •Unlimited history
  • •Great bot API
6th
Mattermost

Mattermost

488 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Mattermost

  • •Open source
  • •On-premise deployment
  • •Free
7th
WhatsApp

WhatsApp

433 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose WhatsApp

  • •Free
  • •Easy to carry on with contact
8th
RocketChat

RocketChat

372 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose RocketChat

  • •Open source
  • •Can be deployed on premise
  • •Byos (bring your own server)
9th
Hubot

Hubot

276 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Hubot

  • •Easy setup
  • •Extendable
  • •Slack integration
10th
Gitter

Gitter

232 stacks

Top Reasons to Choose Gitter

  • •Github integration
  • •Free
  • •Markdown support
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A feed-centric chat platform

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SuprSend
Messaging

Unified Notification Service API for multi-channel notifications

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NuacomMessaging

The cloud phone system for growing teams

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TextGridMessaging

A Twilio alternative to build with APIs for voice, SMS, MMS and more

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KB ClipMessaging

Turn Slack conversations into documentation in seconds

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BertyMessaging

Privacy-first messaging app

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Standup BuddyMessaging

Daily scrum bot for Slack

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TextdripMessaging

Automated SMS drip campaigns for your Business

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MinChatMessaging

Chat SDK to build chat messaging into a website or app

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ClickSend SMS
Messaging

Business SMS Gateway

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Flowdock
Messaging

Flowdock is your team's chat with a shared inbox. Teams using Flowdock react in seconds and never forget anything.

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QuickBlox
Messaging

Connect your user with mobile group chat, content sharing, user accounts and more

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BulkSMS
Messaging

Cost-effective and reliable sending and receiving of SMS messages globally.

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ScringoMessaging

Add peer-peer chat to your mobile app with one line of code.

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Grasshopper
Messaging

The entrepreneur’s phone system

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TalkrayMessaging

Easily enable all forms of real-time and asynchronous communication between your mobile users

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LiveKit
Messaging

The open source, end-to-end stack for WebRTC

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AbbotMessaging

ChatOps as a Service, inspired by GitHub's Hubot

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StipopMessaging

An easy-to-install SDK to add stickers to consumer chat apps

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MumbleMessaging

Open-Source, low latency, high quality voice chat

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