Rocket.Chat vs Element Pro for work

Rocket.Chat Secure CommsOS™ is a communication platform that unifies messaging, voice, video, AI, and mission-critical applications—ensuring uncompromising security, compliance, and operational efficiency for governments, defense, and critical infrastructure organizations operating in high-stakes environments. The result is an increase in productivity and customer satisfaction rates. Everyday, tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and in organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat to keep their communications completely private and secure. By opting for Rocket.Chat, users also benefit from free audio and video conferencing, guest access, screen and file sharing, LiveChat, LDAP Group Sync, two-factor authentication (2FA), E2E encryption, SSO, dozens of OAuth providers and unlimited users, guests, channels, messages, searches and files. Users can set up Rocket.Chat on cloud or by hosting their own servers on-premises. With thousands of contributors and stars on Github, Rocket.Chat has the world’s largest community of chat developers in the open source communication sector. When you choose Rocket.Chat, you join an ever-growing passionate community that constantly improves our platform with us :) KEY FEATURES: * Open Source Software * Hassle-free MIT license * BYOS (bring your own server) * Multiple Rooms * Direct Messages * Private & Public Channels/Groups * Desktop and Mobile Notifications * 100+ available integrations * Edit and Delete Sent Messages * Mentions * Avatars * Markdown * Emojis * Choose between 3 themes: Light, Dark, Black * Sort conversations alphabetically or group by activity, unread or favourites * Transcripts / History * File Upload / Sharing * I18n - [Internationalization with Lingohub] * Hubot Friendly - [Hubot Integration Project] * Media Embeds * Link Previews * LDAP Authentication * REST-full APIs * Remote Locations Video Monitoring * Native Cross-Platform Desktop Application

Sovereign collaboration for the workplace For public sector organisations, enterprises and professional teams - secure collaboration between colleagues, clients, suppliers, customers, etc. Element Pro gives you sovereign, secure and scalable collaboration built on Matrix, while providing your organisation with central administration and the ability to meet regulatory obligations. Empowers employees and organisations by future-proofing real time communication: • Collaborate in real time with your network via instant messaging and video calling • Decentralised & federated communication within your organisation, and across your wider value chain • Provides corporate oversight and control (including user and room administration) to ensure compliance with organisational policies. • Organise your team discussions using public & private rooms • Single sign-on for seamless login (including LDAP, AD, Entra ID, SAML and OIDC) • Mange identity and access permissions centrally, at an organisational level • Login and device verification via QR code • Boost your productivity with collaboration features: file sharing, replies, emoji reactions, polls, read receipts, pinned messages, etc. • Interoperate natively via others using the Matrix open standard This app is based on the free and open-source app maintained at https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios but contains additional proprietary features. Security-first End-to-end encryption by default for all communications (messaging and calls) means your business communications remain just that: your business, not anyone else’s. Own your data Unlike the majority of real time communication solutions, your organisation is able to self-host its communication servers for full digital sovereignty and compliance, meaning no dependency on Big Tech is necessary. Communicate in real time, all the time Stay up to date wherever you are with fully synchronised message history across all your devices, including on the web at https://app.element.io Element Pro is our next-generation workplace app If you have an account provided by your employer (e.g. @janedoe:element.com) you should download Element Pro. This app is designed for commercial use and is based on the free and open source Element X: our next-generation app.