Alternatives to Element

Element is a secure and decentralized communication client for the Matrix network. It provides end-to-end encrypted messaging, voice/video calls, file sharing, and collaboration features with a focus on privacy and security. Find open source and proprietary alternatives that serve similar purposes.

More communication projects

Discover other open source projects in the communication category:

Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is an open-source, fully customizable communications platform for organizations with high standards of data protection, offering team collaboration, omnichannel customer service, and a complete messaging solution.

chatteam-collaboration

Stars

43,076

Relative Popularity

201

License

NOASSERTION

Novu

Novu is an open-source notification infrastructure that provides a unified API for sending notifications across multiple channels including Email, SMS, Push, and Chat. It offers an embeddable notification center, workflow engine, and no-code email editor.

communicationnotifications

Stars

37,317

Relative Popularity

158

License

NOASSERTION

Mattermost

Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle. It provides team messaging, file sharing, project management and integrations in a self-hosted environment.

communicationcollaboration

Stars

33,237

Relative Popularity

150

License

NOASSERTION

Zulip

Zulip is a powerful open-source team chat application that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the organization of email-style threading, designed for productive team collaboration.

chatteam-collaboration

Stars

23,182

Relative Popularity

113

License

Apache-2.0

Apprise

Apprise allows you to send notifications to almost all of the most popular notification services available today such as: Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, etc. through a single unified interface.

communicationnotifications

Stars

14,075

Relative Popularity

57

License

BSD-2-Clause

Tinode

Tinode is an instant messaging platform with a Go backend and clients for iOS, Android, web, and command line, designed for building chat applications with modern features.

messagingchat

Stars

12,654

Relative Popularity

55

License

GPL-3.0

Gotify

Gotify is a simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time via WebSocket. It provides a sleek web UI, REST API, and supports plugins for extending functionality. Perfect for self-hosted push notifications.

communicationnotifications

Stars

13,086

Relative Popularity

54

License

NOASSERTION

Centrifugo

Centrifugo is an open-source scalable real-time messaging server that can instantly deliver messages to application users over WebSocket, HTTP-streaming, SSE, GRPC, and WebTransport. It provides a language-agnostic PUB/SUB server for building real-time applications.

communicationwebsockets

Stars

9,163

Relative Popularity

38

License

Apache-2.0

SimpleX Chat

SimpleX Chat is the most private and secure messaging platform with no user identifiers, featuring double ratchet E2E encryption and a unique approach to privacy that doesn't require phone numbers or usernames.

privacyencryption

Stars

9,106

Relative Popularity

38

License

AGPL-3.0