The ultimate list of 95 European messaging apps

Work chat

22

Team chat for companies, often with calls, files and tasks

Staff without desks, schools and clubs

22

Apps for people without a desk: shop, hospitality and factory staff, teachers and parents, sports teams

Private messengers

13

Personal chat built around privacy; many need no phone number

Open-standard apps

13

Apps for open networks such as XMPP and Matrix, where anyone can run a server

Government and defence

9

Secure messengers for states, armed forces and regulated organisations

Healthcare

8

Messaging for hospitals, doctors and patients

Mainstream and community chat

8

Consumer apps for friends, communities and gaming

Balsio (formerly BirdyChat)

Latvia

Work chat that uses the work email as identity; the first European app to exchange messages with WhatsApp under the Digital Markets Act.

Citadel Team

France

Encrypted messenger from Thales where users register with a work email; hosted in France and adopted by many large French companies.

Fleep

Estonia

Built by former Skype engineers; works alongside email so you can message people who do not use Fleep, and has many integrations.

Infomaniak kChat

Switzerland

Team chat from the Swiss cloud provider Infomaniak, hosted in Switzerland on renewable energy, with a free plan.

Jamespot

France

Enterprise social network and intranet with collaborative apps; joined forces with the maker of Linphone in early 2026.

Nextcloud Talk

Germany

Chat and video calls inside the open-source Nextcloud suite, which organisations host themselves so data stays on their own servers.

Nozbe

Poland

Task and project app with team messaging built around tasks, designed for mobile first.

Private Discuss

France

Team communication service with a strong focus on audio and video meetings, plus instant messaging and a free plan.

Rainbow

France

Chat and calling service from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise that connects to office phone systems; added Europe-hosted artificial intelligence features in October 2026.

Stackfield

Germany

Combines team chat with tasks, documents, whiteboards and video calls, hosted in the European Union.

stashcat

Germany

Messenger with file storage used by German police forces and, under the name schul.cloud, by schools; owned by the German security company secunet.

Talkspirit

France

All-in-one platform with chat, video calls, document co-editing and project management for companies and public bodies.

Teamwire

Germany

Secure business messenger for companies, government agencies, emergency services and healthcare in Germany.

Threema Work

Switzerland

Business version of Threema with central user management and a self-hosted option.

Tixeo

France

Secure video conferencing with messaging, used as a component of the French state’s collaboration suite.

Twake Chat

France

Open-source team chat from Linagora built on Matrix; its parent suite was chosen in November 2026 for a French public-sector collaboration framework.

VNClagoon

Switzerland / Germany

Open-source communication suite with messaging, video conferencing, email and project management.

WF Chat

Sweden

Free team chat with channels, voice and video calls, run by Webbfabriken on its own servers in Stockholm.

Whaller

France

Collaboration and enterprise social network platform with a high-security hosted version for sensitive organisations.

Wildix

Italy / Estonia

Browser-based business phone system with chat and video, sold through partners; reports more than one million users.

Wimi

France

Collaboration suite with chat, video, documents and projects, partly qualified under France’s highest government cloud security standard.

3CX

Cyprus

Business phone system with built-in team chat, live chat and video meetings.

Beekeeper

Switzerland

Chat and shift communication for frontline workers; merged with LumApps in July 2025 and now sold as Beekeeper by LumApps.

Blink

United Kingdom

Frontline employee app that combines chat, a news feed and shift tools; raised 17 million dollars in May 2026.

Escola

Switzerland

School management system with its own app for communication with parents, built in Switzerland and used by more than 430 Swiss schools.

Flip

Germany

Employee app with chat and news for staff without desks, used by employers such as Bosch, Porsche and Rewe; raised 25 million dollars in August 2026.

Happeo

Finland

Intranet and employee communication platform aimed at mid-sized companies.

Heja

Sweden

Team communication app for youth sports with chat, schedule and attendance; free with advertising, with a paid tier for coaches.

Klapp

Switzerland

Communication app between schools and parents, widely used in Swiss schools and in Liechtenstein, with data stored in Switzerland.

Klasbord

Netherlands

Parent communication app for Dutch primary schools.

Parro

Netherlands

Parent communication app from Topicus tied to the ParnasSys school system used by Dutch primary schools; parents’ reviews are mixed (2.4 of 5 in the Dutch App Store).

Relesys

Denmark

Employee app for retail and frontline staff that combines communication with training.

SchoolFox

Austria

Messenger between teachers and parents with built-in translation into many languages; part of the German Sdui Group.

Sdui

Germany

School app that combines chat with timetables and translates messages for parents; its group also owns SchoolFox and reports more than 22,000 institutions in Europe.

Speakap

Netherlands

Branded employee app for retail and hospitality staff that works without a company email address and in each worker’s own language.

Spond

Norway

Free group messaging and event organising app for sports teams and clubs, with more than 4 million active users; earns money from payment fees.

SportEasy

France

Team and club app with calendar, availability tracking and messaging, with a free plan for teams and servers in France; rated about 4.7 of 5 by users.

SportMember

Denmark

Club management app with messaging by push notification, text and email, free across all teams of a club.

Staffbase

Germany

Employee app and intranet used by large companies to reach staff on their phones; headquartered in Chemnitz and New York.

tchop

Germany

Communication framework delivered as a company-branded native app, with European hosting.

TeamPlus

Germany

Team app for sports clubs with a team treasury, carpooling and line-ups.

Untis Messenger

Austria

Messenger built into the WebUntis timetable system, managed centrally by the school and usable without a phone number or email address.

Ziik

Denmark

Intranet and communication app for companies with many locations.

360Player

Sweden

Platform for sports clubs and academies with team communication and scheduling.

Element

United Kingdom

The main app for the open Matrix network, where anyone can run their own server; the basis for government messengers in France, Germany and Poland.

ginlo

Germany

Munich-based messenger with separate private and business versions, positioned on German hosting and data protection compliance.

Olvid

France

Needs no phone number and encrypts metadata as well as content; certified by the French national cybersecurity agency and adopted for French ministers.

Session

Switzerland

No phone number, and messages travel through a decentralised network that hides who talks to whom; avoided shutdown in 2026 thanks to user donations. The foundation is Swiss; the project started in Australia.

SimpleX Chat

United Kingdom

Has no user identifiers of any kind, which privacy reviewers single out; open source, with version 7.0 released in July 2026.

Skred

France

Peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted, with no phone number or email needed and almost nothing stored about users.

Status

Switzerland

Open-source app from Zug that combines a peer-to-peer encrypted messenger with a crypto wallet and browser; its makers still label it beta.

TeleGuard

Switzerland

Free app from the search engine Swisscows that needs no phone number and keeps data on Swiss servers.

Threema

Switzerland

Paid once, needs no phone number or email, and is widely used by Swiss and German organisations; ownership passed to the German investor Comitis Capital in January 2026.

Treebal

France

Messenger from Brittany designed for a low environmental footprint, free for individuals with a paid version for organisations; reviewers note its small user base.

Twinme

France

No phone number, no account and no access to your address book; each contact relationship is kept separate.

Volla Messages

Germany

Runs directly between devices with no central servers; launched as a beta in 2025, when an independent test found a good base but many errors.

Wire

Switzerland / Germany

End-to-end encrypted chat and calls with open-source apps; chosen by the German federal administration and now sold mainly to organisations.

Conversations

Germany

The reference Android app for the open XMPP standard, known for reliability; its sibling Quicksy adds sign-up by phone number.

Delta Chat

Germany

Uses email-style relay servers as its network, so there is no central service to block or shut down; no phone number or existing email account needed.

Dino

Germany

Clean desktop XMPP app that aims to feel like a mainstream messenger.

FluffyChat

Germany

Simple, friendly Matrix app aimed at non-technical users, made by volunteers and released frequently.

Fluux Messenger

France

XMPP app from ProcessOne, the company behind the widely used ejabberd server.

Kaidan

Germany

XMPP app for Linux desktops and phones; added experimental audio and video calls in early 2026.

Linphone

France

Open-source calling and messaging app built on open internet-telephony standards, from Belledonne Communications in Grenoble.

Monal

Germany

The most actively maintained XMPP app for iPhone and Mac, run by volunteers and funded by donations.

Monocles Chat

Germany

Android XMPP app based on Conversations with additional features.

Movim

France

Web-based social network and chat built on XMPP.

Prose

France

Open-source team chat built on XMPP with web and desktop apps.

SchildiChat

Germany

Matrix app that follows Element closely but adds extra options and a more conventional chat layout; its new version is still labelled beta.

Snikket

United Kingdom

A ready-made package that lets a family or small group run its own private messaging server with matching apps.

Armour Comms

United Kingdom

Secure calling and messaging for government and defence customers; acquired in April 2026 by the British-Australian group PentenAmio.

Bittium SafeMove Comms (formerly Secure Call)

Finland

Voice, video and messaging app for governments and defence that an organisation can run entirely on its own network; covered by a NATO supply agreement signed in January 2026.

BwMessenger / BundesMessenger

Germany

Matrix-based messengers built by BWI, the technology provider of the German armed forces, first for the military and then for public administration.

Luxchat

Luxembourg

National Matrix-based messenger operated in Luxembourg, free and without advertising, with versions for the public and for the state; around 14,000 public-sector users reported.

mSzyfr

Poland

Government messenger built on Matrix and hosted in Poland; invitation-only, and officials were told in May 2026 to use it instead of Signal.

RealTyme (formerly Adeya)

Switzerland

End-to-end encrypted messaging, calls and file sharing for governments and regulated companies, hosted on the customer’s own servers or in a Swiss cloud; Adeya merged into it in 2021.

Salt Communications

United Kingdom

Closed encrypted communication system from Belfast that gives organisations full administrative control.

Tchap

France

The French state’s own messenger for civil servants, built on Matrix and run by the government’s digital agency.

Telsy InTouch

Italy

Secure messaging platform described in an Italian policy paper as one of the most advanced initiatives for a national messaging platform.

Alertive

United Kingdom

Clinical messaging and alerting app that replaces pagers in National Health Service hospitals.

CareFlow Connect

United Kingdom

Hospital messaging and handover app from System C, tied into its patient record systems.

Doctolib Connect (formerly Siilo)

Netherlands / France

Free secure messenger for healthcare professionals; built in Amsterdam as Siilo, bought by Doctolib in 2023 and renamed in November 2025.

Famedly

Germany

Matrix-based messenger for hospitals and practices; the first provider approved for Germany’s national healthcare messaging standard, and chosen by the Charité hospital in Berlin.

medflex

Germany

Messenger and video consultation service between medical practices and patients, now extended with an automated phone assistant.

PandaLab Pro

France

Secure instant messenger for healthcare professionals, owned by the pharmacy software group Pharmagest.

Pando

United Kingdom

Messaging app for National Health Service clinicians to share patient information securely; the company reports more than 125,000 healthcare professionals using it.

Team’Doc

France

Secure messenger with shared documents and task lists for hospital care teams.

Fluxer

Sweden

Discord-style app released in early 2026; reviewers find it close to Discord in feel but report early-stage issues such as outages.

GG (Gadu-Gadu)

Poland

Poland’s original messenger from 2000, still updated and kept alive by a loyal user base; its owner announced a version for teams in 2026.

Jodel

Germany

Anonymous feed and chat for people nearby, popular with students in Germany and the Nordic countries; confirmed a data leak in April 2026.

Stoat (formerly Revolt)

United Kingdom

Open-source app that looks and works much like Discord and can be self-hosted; renamed in October 2025.

TeamSpeak

Germany

Long-standing voice chat for gamers, valued for low delay and self-hosted servers; version 6 adds group chat and screen sharing and was still in beta in October 2026.

Tellonym

Germany

Anonymous question and message app from Berlin, used mostly alongside Instagram and Snapchat, with more than 25 million downloads.

WOLF Qanawat (formerly Palringo)

United Kingdom

Group chat and live audio community app built in the north-east of England, now aimed mainly at Arabic-speaking users.

Yubo

France

Live video and chat app for making new friends, with around 80 million registered users; became adults-only in November 2025.