Nextcloud Talk vs Troop Messenger

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.

Troop Messenger is a team messaging app with channels, guest access and unlimited message history. It runs on the web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. Listed integrations include Dropbox, Google Drive, Zapier and LDAP/Active Directory.

A free plan is listed for 1–50 users with 50 GB of storage. Premium costs $2.50 a month and includes 150 GB; Enterprise costs $5 a month and includes 1 TB. The pricing note lists a 7-day trial, while Enterprise plan details describe a one-month trial. Superior is listed at $9 a month and marked “Coming soon”; its specified features include remote desktop control, whiteboard, APIs, platform restrictions, SAML and archiving. Troop Messenger is headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.