Utopia Alternatives

Dialog Messenger is a corporate messenger for teamwork and secure communication.

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable enterprise team collaboration and messaging application. The software can be deployed to on-premis or to cloud instances. Mattermost is designed for internal use within organizations and businesses in financial services, government, healthcare, remote work, and enterprise DevOps, where teams use Mattermost to power collaboration at every stage of the DevOps lifecycle.

Skype is a telecommunications application that specialize in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices and consoles. The software allows you to connect with friends and business colleges worldwide. Skype provides free online calls, messaging, affordable international calling to mobiles or landlines and Skype for Business for effective collaboration among teams.

Jitsi is an open-source project and software toolset that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.  Jitsi supports popular protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Google Hangouts, OTR, ZRTP and more.

Zulip is an open-source real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones. Zulip provides modern apps for every major platform, powered by Electron and React Native. The software is 100% open source software, built by a vibrant community of hundreds of developers from all around the world.

Slack is a new way to communicate with your team in a faster, better organized, and more secure than email. The software is designed for business looking to improve their communication work flow. Slack offers features like persistent chat rooms organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging that is built for teamwork.

A free, unlimited and open-source chat software. Rocket.Chat have set out to be a replacement for email, HipChat & Slack and is provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or a self-hosted community edition. Rocket.Chat is feature packed and can be used for video conferencing, file sharing, voice messages and more. The software integrates with third-party services like GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, and Confluence and provides an API that can be used for authentication and integration across these services.

Signal is a cross-platform encrypted messaging application that has a strong focus on privacy. The application is developed by Signal Messenger LLC and provides users with features like one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. The software is famous for being used by the whistleblower and privacy advocate Edward Snowden who once said "I use Signal every day, it is the most scalable encryption tool we have".

With Telegram people can communicate and via instant messaging and voice over IP. Telegram is a cloud-based software and services that have a focus on privacy, speed and security. The client was initially created by the brothers Nikolai and Pavel Durov, the creators of the Russian social network VK back in 2013. Today the application is used cross-platform by over 400 million users world-wide.

Telegram X is a development version of the chat application Telegram. The goal of Telegram X is to reinvent Telegram and explore new frontiers in speed, ease of use, quality of animations, and all other aspects surrounding online communication. Telegram X is an experimental app that may or may not eventually replace the existing official Telegram, or simply used as a public beta test.