Mattermost vs. Virola Messenger

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mattermost
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Mattermost from the company of the same name in Palo Alto is a messaging, collaboration and communication platform providing high security and compliance for the businesses that need it.
$0
per month per user
Virola Messenger
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Virola Messenger is a corporate messenger for secure team collaboration. Both self-hosted and cloud Virola servers are available. Main features: private and group chat rooms file transfer and unlimited storage reactions, mentions, replies and discussions continuous voice and video meetings voice meetings recording live avatars issue tracking with task board screen sharing remote…N/A
Pricing
MattermostVirola Messenger
Editions & Modules
Free Self-Hosted
$0
per month per user
Professional
$10
per month per user
Enterprise
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per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MattermostVirola Messenger
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
MattermostVirola Messenger
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Mattermost
8.2
46 Ratings
5% above category average
Virola Messenger
7.8
2 Ratings
0% above category average
Task Management6.934 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation7.127 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.643 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Search9.025 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Visual planning tools9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Mattermost
8.7
49 Ratings
9% above category average
Virola Messenger
9.5
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Chat9.649 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Notifications8.349 Ratings00 Ratings
Discussions9.147 Ratings00 Ratings
Surveys9.430 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase7.633 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting8.99 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts8.713 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook8.39 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Mattermost
9.1
29 Ratings
14% above category average
Virola Messenger
9.0
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Versioning9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files9.423 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Audio files9.423 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Document collaboration8.119 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control9.723 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced security features8.820 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive8.613 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync9.817 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MattermostVirola Messenger
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(51 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.7
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.3
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.7
(36 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MattermostVirola Messenger
Likelihood to Recommend
Mattermost
I used Mattermost on a full remote company and it perfectly suited our collaboration and communication culture. The company dealt with privileged and personal information of a huge data base of users, so it was a significant advantage for our need to comply with industry regulations.
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This is fantastic for offices that have employees working from home. It is a much cleaner and easier way to discuss projects or even have informal conversations. However if all employees are working from the same office, the features are limited as conversation, screen sharing, and task management are less valuable.
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Pros
Mattermost
  • Easy intergration to our main CRM (Monday.com)
  • I'm not techy myself but I have seen a lot of our previous integrations in Slack transferred over to Mattermost so that's fun
  • The desktop and phone app (android) works well enough. I haven't tried it on the Apple ecosystem yet.
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • Secure chatting
  • Chatrooms
  • File transfer/ sharing
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Cons
Mattermost
  • Some of the features in paid plans could be free, however, they have much offered in free plan (self-hosted)
  • The Desktop App we use on windows has some bugs, like when Mattermost is down and comes back up, the app needs restart
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • A cleaner interface.
  • More intuitive for older generations.
  • Customizable notification tones
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Likelihood to Renew
Mattermost
Mattermost has been an excellent tool for our business, allowing for a very cost-effective means of communicating, collaborating, and sharing project and business documentation and resources. The free community edition allows for simple installation on existing cloud server resources which results in significantly lower recurring costs compared to the competition
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Provide Support Live Chat
No answers on this topic
Usability
Mattermost
It's an extremely easy to use software, and I would recommend it to every company that is growing. I think they could improve their notification system, as it gets a little spammy sometimes and important notifications get lost. Also needs to improve the number of private chats that you are allowed to create.
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Provide Support Live Chat
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Mattermost
We have not had to contact support for Mattermost ever. All that we have needed has been available in the documentation or website. One of our DevOps team members set it up in a couple of hours. The whole team was using Mattermost that same day. No support needed.
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Provide Support Live Chat
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Mattermost
This went as expected. No surprises or major hurdles.
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Provide Support Live Chat
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Mattermost
I feel slack is a bit more difficult to use overall than Mattermost. Mattermost makes the tasks of communicating across departments and team members easier, as well as giving the ability to share information via hyper links, attachments, and other forms of communication among every body here. Also, easier user interface
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Provide Support Live Chat
It's really early to judge Virola's capabilities with other offerings or tools in the marketplace but with the set of features the tool offers at the moment at the negligible price it can surely be counted as a dark horse to make its way through to be one of the best. Provide that it has the ability to support larger teams, it can really be successful in the future.
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Return on Investment
Mattermost
  • Improved Communication Efficiency by consolidating all the variety of messaging apps etc
  • real-time communication and collaboration has improved the orgs ability to address issues and implement changes rapidly.
  • Accelerated decision-making processes, reducing the time required for team approvals and discussions which used to be in back and forth emails.
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • Kept everyone in the loop
  • Allowed for seamless project discussions from inside and outside the office.
  • Great way to share screens which was very important.
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ScreenShots

Mattermost Screenshots

Screenshot of Channels: All team communications in one place.Screenshot of Playbooks: Orchestrates work across tools and teams.Screenshot of Boards: Project planning and milestones.Screenshot of Connections: Unites the entire technology stack through a single point of collaboration.

Virola Messenger Screenshots

Screenshot of Virola Messenger desktop and mobile client appsScreenshot of Issues and discussions in Virola MessengerScreenshot of Virola Messenger mobile client appScreenshot of Task board in Virola MessengerScreenshot of Screen sharing and remote control in Virola Messenger