Best Team Chat Apps in 2026
Updated
In short: Microsoft Teams is ranked #1 of 64 as of 4 October 2026, ahead of Slack and Zoho Cliq. The best-ranked option with a free plan is Slack. The lowest first paid tier on this page is Chanty at $0.25/mo.
For day-to-day workplace conversations, team chat apps differ in how they organize discussions and accommodate members and guests. Compare channels, guest access, maximum members, and message history to understand how each option may suit your group. Integrations and supported platforms are also worth checking, particularly when your team uses different services or devices. Free-plan availability and paid starting prices can help you weigh the options against your budget. Microsoft Teams leads the ranking, followed by Slack and Google Chat; Pumble and Zoho Cliq are also near the top. Use these criteria to focus on the conversation structure, access, and practical limits that matter to your team.
64 team chat apps ranked on what their makers publish — plans and prices, free tiers, platforms and the facts on their own pages.
64ranked
20free plans on this page
$0.25/molowest paid tier
4 Oct 2026last checked
#1 Microsoft Teams Top pick · 9.8 Free plan · $0.33/mo
#2 Slack Runner-up · 9.5 Free plan · $8.75/mo
#3 Zoho Cliq Also great · 9.5 Free plan · Free
- Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- Free
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- Microsoft 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Exchange, Planner, Forms, Power BI, OneNote, Power Apps, Power Automate, LinkedIn
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$0.33/mofirst paid tier About Microsoft TeamsVisit site - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $7.25/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- Salesforce, Jira, Google Drive, ChatGPT, Asana, Miro, Notion, Zoom, GitHub, GitLab, PagerDuty, Box, Dropbox, Zendesk, Freshdesk, HubSpot
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$8.75/mofirst paid tier About SlackVisit site - Free planFree trial AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- Zoho People, Zoho Projects, Zoho Calendar, Zoho Notebook, Office 365, Twitter, third-party extensions
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSself-hostedWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- GitHub, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet, Jira Cloud, Microsoft Teams, Pexip, Telegram, Trello, WhatsApp, Zapier, Zoom
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - Free plan AndroidapiiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- Exchange, Outlook, Google Calendar, Gmail, AnyCross, Lark Developer, Lark Base
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $3.50/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Calendar, Zoom, Jitsi Meet, Zapier, IFTTT, Sentry, Zendesk
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$3.50/mofirst paid tier About ZulipVisit site - Free plan AndroidapiiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $2.99/user/mo
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$2.50/mofirst paid tier About DiscordVisit site - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Integrations
- Poll, Reminder, GitHub
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms€7.45/mofirst paid tier About WireVisit site - Free planFree trial AndroidapiiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $2.49/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- Google Calendar, Plaky, Clockify, AI Assistant, Calendly, Email, GitHub, GitLab, Gmail, Google Drive, Jira, Polls, RSS, Zapier
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$2.49/mofirst paid tier About PumbleVisit site - Free plan AndroidapiiOSLinuxmacOSself-hostedWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $3/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- Zapier, Giphy, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, YouTube, Vimeo, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Trello, Asana, Google Calendar, Mailchimp, Jira, Box, ClickUp, Clockify, Loom, Basecamp, Wrike, Process Street, Make, Monday.com, HubSpot, n8n
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$0.25/mofirst paid tier About ChantyVisit site - AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSself-hostedWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, Outlook, ServiceNow, Zoom, Pexip, Splunk, Zapier
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $6/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- Todoist, Asana, CircleCI, GitHub, GitLab, Jira Software, Make, n8n, Pipedream, Zapier, Google Calendar, Calendly, Jitsi Meet, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Sheets, OneDrive, Box, Trello
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$6/mofirst paid tier About TwistVisit site - Free planFree trial AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- No
- Paid from
- $2.50/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- Dropbox, Google Drive, Zapier, LDAP/Active Directory
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$2.50/mofirst paid tier About Troop MessengerVisit site - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $3.99/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- Olark, Jabber, Global Relay, Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Duo, RSA SecurID
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$3.99/mofirst paid tier About TrillianVisit site - AndroidextensioniOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $4.50/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- Google Drive, Google Calendar, GitHub, Trello, Dropbox, Twitter, Bitbucket, Asana, Jira, Zapier, Zoom, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Todoist, GitLab, Zendesk, Freshdesk, OneDrive, Mailchimp
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - Free plan AndroidiOSmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- kintone, Unipos, miibo, Blue Ocean, GENBAx
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSself-hostedWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- No
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- Etherpad, Grafana, Google Calendar, Jitsi, Spotify, YouTube, Ethercalc, TradingView, GitHub, RSS Bot, GitLab, Jira, Webhooks
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - Free plan AndroidiOSmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- Backlog; Money Forward Cloud Expense; Gmail; Google Calendar; Jobcan; Zapier
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Channels
- No
- Guest access
- Yes
- Integrations
- Nextcloud Files, Nextcloud Groupware, Nextcloud Calendar, Nextcloud Deck, Nextcloud Whiteboard, Matterbridge, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Matrix, IRC, Slack, Mattermost, XMPP, Pexip, SIP
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms€5.94/mofirst paid tier About Nextcloud TalkVisit site - Free plan WebWindowsmacOSiOSAndroid
- Free plan
- Yes
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms€3/mofirst paid tier About WhallerVisit site - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- OA approvals, Attendance, Calendar, Announcements, Robots, CRM, Yida, Ding Drive, Ding Docs, DingTalk Meetings
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - Free plan AndroidiOSmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- limited
- Integrations
- Google Calendar, RSS Feed, Trello, JIRA, GitHub, Bitbucket, Incoming Webhooks, Outgoing Webhooks
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- unlimited
- Integrations
- Google Drive, Dropbox, Box.com, Zapier, API, Webhooks
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms - AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $7/user/mo
- Channels
- Yes
- Guest access
- Yes
- Message history
- Turn history on or off by default
- Integrations
- Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Google Groups, Asana, Jira, PagerDuty, GitHub, Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Trello, Zapier
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$7/mofirst paid tier About Google ChatVisit site - Free plan AndroidiOSLinuxmacOSWebWindows
- Free plan
- Yes
- Channels
- Yes
- Integrations
- Output Desk, Output Wall, Output Time, Jitsi Meet, GitHub
RecognisedDocumentedFree planPlatforms$0.75/mofirst paid tier About Output MessengerVisit site
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Questions about this list
Which team chat app is ranked first on Everything Xiaomi?
Microsoft Teams is ranked #1 of 64 with a score of 9.8. Slack is second and Zoho Cliq third.
How many of these have a free plan?
20 of the 25 on this page publish a free plan on their own pricing pages.
Which is the cheapest paid option?
On this page, Chanty has the lowest first paid tier we found: $0.25/mo.
How is this list ranked?
Ranked on what each maker publishes: documentation depth, a free tier and the platforms it runs on. Paid placements never change a rank.
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