Best Team Chat tools

Use direct messages and project spaces to keep group conversations and follow-ups together.

Bring direct and group chat together with email and surrounding work context.

Organize workplace messages into channels, direct messages, threads, and searchable history.

Company chat with managed retention, topic channels, and optional end-to-end encryption.

Open-source browser chat for direct messages and XMPP group rooms.

End-to-end encrypted messaging, voice, video, and file sharing for organizations.

Keep team chat and calls on a self-hosted collaboration platform.

Coordinate technical teams through channel-based messaging, threads, and operational workflows.

Keep direct and group conversations in context with channels, threads, reactions, and voice notes.

Coordinate team work in workspace channels and direct messages within the Ubirimi suite.

Secure employee chat for desk and frontline teams.

Direct, group, and video conversations connected to an organization's work.

Organize team projects and tasks with deadlines, calendars, Kanban, and time planning.

Bring channels, threads, and direct messages together with task boards, documents, and client access.

Run standalone team chat or connect conversations with Toolscase time tracking.

Pre-1.0 encrypted team chat for organizations handling sensitive information.

Bring team chat, shared knowledge, tasks, and calls together in one workspace.

Keep employee replies in a shared inbox instead of managers' personal phones.

Keep team conversations in public and private channels with searchable messages and a shared feed.

Self-host an XMPP server for instant messaging and group chat.

Self-hosted team messenger with chat, meetings, screen sharing, and a free small-team license.

Keep channels, DMs, and federated conversations in a compact self-hosted server.

Group work chat and file sharing inside Vonage Business Communications.

Coordinate teams through private messages, group chats, calls, and collaboration tools.