Allo vs. Twist: Team Messaging

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Allo
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Allo is a remote workspace made for asynchronous communication and remote teams. With interactive and visual spaces, teams are able to collaborate around, strategy, design, proposals, initiatives, and processes. This is done with Allo's interactive spaces. Allo includes: Creating interactive documents consisting of images, graphics, diagrams, text, and video Previewing documents and PDF's Previewing Microsoft Office documents Editing Google Suite…
$12
per month per user
Twist: Team Messaging
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Twist is a collaboration application offered by Doist, suggested to teams as a calmer topically organized conversation tracker to better manage multiple streams of conversation and idea sharing. Discounts are offered for non-profits and student users.
$5
per user, per month
Pricing
AlloTwist: Team Messaging
Editions & Modules
Team
$12
per month
Enterprise
Custom
Unlimited
$5.00
per user, per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlloTwist: Team Messaging
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts for annual subscriptions , as well as startups and educational institutions.
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AlloTwist: Team Messaging
Features
AlloTwist: Team Messaging
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Allo
8.0
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Twist: Team Messaging
-
Ratings
Task Management7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Search7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Allo
7.0
3 Ratings
13% below category average
Twist: Team Messaging
-
Ratings
Chat7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications6.73 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Allo
8.0
3 Ratings
0% below category average
Twist: Team Messaging
-
Ratings
Video files8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced security features7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AlloTwist: Team Messaging
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(3 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AlloTwist: Team Messaging
Likelihood to Recommend
Allo
Allo is ideal for brainstorming, designing, and presenting information in a remote company. With its easy-to-use tools and modern, minimalistic, and non-intrusive interface these kinds of tasks can be done in Allo beautifully. However, it was difficult for us to have a detailed project schedule (with automatic reminders for tasks and subtasks). To sum up, Allo is a perfect digital paper canvas but currently, it lacks automation features.
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Doist
If you have no existing messaging solution, Twist is a viable option. I can't find any reason to recommend it ahead of Slack, Spaces, Teams, Discord, etc. This is one more solution with team messaging functionality, and file sharing, and message archiving/searching. If budget is an issue, Twist can be replaced with a free solution like Discord.
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Pros
Allo
  • The user interface is very user friendly
  • The features provided allow for a wide variety of ways for teams to collaborate on projects together.
  • customer support is incredibly responsive and fast to address any questions or concerns.
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Doist
  • Messaging
  • Team communication
  • Email updates
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Cons
Allo
  • more views for projects
  • more templates
  • task management options inside a canvas (deadlines, recurring etc)
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Doist
  • Does nothing to stand out from other messaging apps
  • Boring
  • Feature parity with everything else on the market
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Support Rating
Allo
Support is quick to respond and assist with any issue or question
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Doist
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Allo
Miro is a direct competitor for Allo. It has more features and integrations but Allo appeals much more to us because of the easy-to-navigate and elegant interface, as well as speed. Infinity is an all-in-one project management app. It's ideal for detailed project management and keeping tracts of tasks (and other. items) but Allo is much better for designing and brainstorming.
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Doist
Does not stand out at all. I can't think of any reason to select Twist over more popular choices like Slack, Teams, Discord, or Spaces. We use Twist because it forced on us by a specific scenario. Otherwise, we would just use an existing platform (ex: Slack) to handle this communication
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Return on Investment
Allo
  • helps improve and maintain productivity
  • The windows app keeps the cpu very busy so can slow other application
  • team collaboration has been improved since using this program
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Doist
  • None that can be directly tied to Twist
  • We were forced to use Twist in a certain environment, but no change to our ROI
  • Provides one more place to look, one more place to try and find messages.
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ScreenShots

Twist: Team Messaging Screenshots

Screenshot of Group Threads In ChannelsScreenshot of Intelligent InboxScreenshot of Direct MessagesScreenshot of Thread-Based Communications