Layer vs Scringo: What are the differences?

Developers describe Layer as "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. On the other hand, Scringo is detailed as "Add peer-peer chat to your mobile app with one line of code". Scringo offers a unique Community & Messaging Platform that turns every app into an independent, dynamic & fully functional social network.

Layer and Scringo belong to "Communications SDK" category of the tech stack.

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, Scringo provides the following key features:

• SDK availble for iOS, Android and Unity
• Inbox
• 1x1 Chat

"Open source ui atlas makes messaging easy" is the primary reason why developers consider Layer over the competitors, whereas "Very effective and dead simple" was stated as the key factor in picking Scringo.