Chanty vs Nextcloud Talk

Chanty is a team chat and collaboration tool that combines messaging, tasks, and calls. Teams can create tasks or turn messages into them, assign and filter work, set due dates, and use a Kanban board. Messaging includes mentions, pinned messages, code snippets, threads, searchable history, reactions, file sharing, and an in-app media player. Audio and video calls support screen sharing, up to 1,000 video participants, and up to 49 videos on screen. Chanty lists channels, guest access, and unlimited message history. It offers apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, plus web access. The free plan is billed forever and allows up to five team members, 20GB of team storage, 10 integrations, and one guest user. Business is listed at $4 a month billed monthly; the pricing note also says paid plans start at $3/user/mo on annual billing. Integrations include tools such as Zapier, Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, Trello, and Jira. Chanty lists security measures including TLS 1.2 or higher and file encryption.

Nextcloud Talk combines meetings, chat, and webinars in a self-hosted communication service. It supports private, group, and public calls, URL invitations for external participants, and chat that remains after calls. Users can share Nextcloud Files documents and connect rooms with files, calendars, and tasks. Federation links chats and calls across Nextcloud servers, while bridges connect services such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Matrix, IRC, Mattermost, and XMPP. Talk runs in browsers and on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, with a public API for app integrations. Security features listed include end-to-end encrypted calls, layered encryption, brute-force protection, suspicious-login detection, and a $10,000 bug bounty. Typical private deployments handle 6–10 participants, or up to 20 without video. Webinars, lobby-based public video conferences, SIP dial-in, and larger calls require the High Performance Backend.