Provides secure collaboration with end-to-end encryption, supporting chat, voice, and video calls. Available on all major platforms, it enables digital sovereignty with a decentralized design and interoperability through bridges to systems like Slack and Teams. Includes enterprise-grade SaaS.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Origin
- GB flagUnited Kingdom
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
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- GB flagUnited Kingdom
Element vs Microsoft Teams Comments
Positive comment by chtfn ·
Element has come a long way, and is now a fully-featured group chat application, with spaces (to group several rooms), numerous bridges so people are not locked in one single tool, and great integrations.
Positive comment by tutosfaciles48 ·
Riot.im have a lot of mods/plugins which allow us to have video calls, ldap/AD integration, ...
Positive comment by Guest ·
Clean and simple interface. Bridges is an extremely nice feature.
3 of 4 comments
- Element is Free Personal and Open SourceMicrosoft Teams is Freemium and Proprietary
- Element is an Instant Messenger Microsoft Teams is a Group Chat App
- Element is Decentralized, Privacy focused and LightweightMicrosoft Teams is not according to our users