Nextcloud Talk vs Twist

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.

Twist is a team messaging service built around channels, guest access, and work-tool integrations. It runs on web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 500 internal member accounts, 500 external guest accounts, five integrations, 5 GB of file storage, and one month of comments and message history. Unlimited costs $6 a month with annual billing. That plan includes full history, unlimited integrations and file storage, priority support, and unlimited internal and external member accounts. Listed integrations include Todoist, Asana, CircleCI, GitHub, GitLab, Jira Software, Make, n8n, Pipedream, Zapier, Google Calendar, Calendly, Jitsi Meet, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Sheets, OneDrive, Box, and Trello. Twist therefore offers a capped free workspace and a paid plan removing listed limits.