Celo vs Secretly for Teams

Celo is a collaboration platform for healthcare teams communicating and coordinating patient care. It supports one-to-one and group messaging, notifications, read receipts, and delivery status. Teams can share photos, videos, and documents in a library separate from a user's personal gallery, and use patient-specific case files and secure external chat with patients, families, and other stakeholders. Celo AI Scribe records patient conversations, generates clinical notes, and lets users review and share them with the team. Celo Connect is in beta and lets patients, families, and referrers start a HIPAA-compliant conversation from a team's homepage. Celo says it supports EHR integration through FHIR or HL7 and RESTful APIs, with authentication options including API keys, mutual SSL, and IP restrictions. It says patient information is encrypted and not stored permanently on a user's device, and describes HIPAA, HITECH, and GDPR compliance. The service runs on Android, iOS, and web. Plans include Free for up to 10 users, Growth for up to 20, and paid tiers starting at $49 per month billed annually.

Secretly for Teams provides encrypted organizational communication across Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows without requiring phone numbers or email addresses. The Teams offering targets legal, healthcare, journalism, and finance groups, with a 30-day pilot available without commitment. Team controls include an admin console, organizational Secretly IDs, enforced disappearing-message and export-lock policies, centralized billing, and priority support. Secretly says messages, calls, and files are encrypted on-device and unreadable by its servers; administrators manage membership and policy but cannot read message content. The free plan includes encrypted chats, files, one-to-one calls, group calls for up to eight, desktop apps on up to two computers, and 100 MB file sharing. Premium costs $2.99 a month, or $14.99 per year or $29.99 lifetime. Teams uses custom per-seat pricing. Source code is public, while an independent third-party security audit is planned but not completed.