Twist: Team Messaging vs. XWiki

Twist: Team Messaging

10 Reviews and Ratings

XWiki

4 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Twist: Team Messaging	Score9.2 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
XWiki	Score8.2 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	XWiki is an open-source collaborative platform designed to enhance business collaboration and streamline knowledge management for companies of all sizes. As a an alternative to proprietary knowledge bases, XWiki offers a structured second-generation wiki with over 900 pre-made extensions, enabling businesses to add features and customize their XWiki instance to meet specific needs. Key features and benefits: Structured wiki concept: XWiki organizes knowledge…	$300 per year 10 users

Pricing

Twist: Team Messaging

XWiki

Unlimited: $5.00
per user, per month

Starter: €300
per year for up to 10 users
On-Premise: Custom Pricing
(Pro Plans available for On-Premise deployment)
Basic: starting at €1443
per year for up to 25 users
Business: starting at €10890
per year for up to 250 users
Enterprise: starting at €33000
per year for up to 500 users

Pricing Offerings
Twist: Team Messaging	XWiki
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

Optional

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Discount available for multi-year pricing and higher user volumes. Up to a 50% discount available for NGOs and institutions of higher learning.

Best Alternatives
	Twist: Team Messaging	XWiki
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Medium-sized Companies	Workvivo Score9.4 out of 10	Bloomfire Score8.4 out of 10
Enterprises	Workplace from Meta (discontinued) Score8 out of 10	Bloomfire Score8.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Twist: Team Messaging	XWiki
Likelihood to Recommend	6.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Twist: Team Messaging	XWiki
Likelihood to Recommend	Todoist 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. Incentivized Ryan Freeman President Read full review	XWiki SAS XWiki is very well suited for a very wide range of web collaboration and web development. Stéphane Laurière CTO Read full review
Pros	Todoist Messaging Team communication Email updates Incentivized Ryan Freeman President Read full review	XWiki SAS XWiki makes it easy to manage semi-structured information, which is at the heart of every knowledge nexus of organizations. It makes it easy to manage in a single system both structured data (such as memberships, projects), and unstructured data. XWiki offers a very rich API for creating enterprise applications quickly that are easy to maintain and evolve collaboratively. XWiki templating and skinning system is extremely flexible and powerful. Stéphane Laurière CTO Read full review
Cons	Todoist Does nothing to stand out from other messaging apps Boring Feature parity with everything else on the market Incentivized Ryan Freeman President Read full review	XWiki SAS While the basic pieces are available for turning XWiki into an advanced semantic system, some features could be made available more prominently to the user for easing the use of faceted and typed links, paving the way for a new era of collaborative knowledge sharing. Stéphane Laurière CTO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Todoist 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 Incentivized Ryan Freeman President Read full review	XWiki SAS XWiki key differentiators in my opinion: Fast app development framework with very rich API Open-source strategy, opening the way to collaborative innovation Stéphane Laurière CTO Read full review
Return on Investment	Todoist 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. Incentivized Ryan Freeman President Read full review	XWiki SAS XWiki has a positive impact on the OW2 communication and collaborations strategies. It saves time when developing applications. Stéphane Laurière CTO Read full review
ScreenShots	Twist: Team Messaging Screenshots	XWiki Screenshots