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Layer vs Contus Fly: What are the differences?
What is Layer? Build messaging, voice and video right into your app in minutes. Layer's asynchronous messaging fabric is capable of transporting payloads of any type. Get your users talking with chat, voice or video messaging. Pull them back in with push. Connect friends, colleagues or perfect strangers seamlessly.
What is Contus Fly? Readymade Chat API & Messaging SDK. It is a readymade chat solution on Android, iOS & Web. Its diverse uses of social, enterprise, in-app, and personal chat. It is 100% customizable, with full access to the source code.
Layer and Contus Fly can be categorized as "Communications SDK" tools.
Some of the features offered by Layer are:
- Send any message payload (photos, videos, location, json data, etc) up to 2GB
- Build your UI quickly with sample UI components to get started
- User-expected communication features work right out of the box (full message state tracking, typing indicators, read receipts)
On the other hand, Contus Fly provides the following key features:
- Voice Messaging
- Push Notifications
- Location Sharing
Pros of Contus Fly
Pros of Layer
- Open source ui atlas makes messaging easy6
- Easy setup1