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24 alternatives to Broid

W3C Open standard libraries for multi-platform communication

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Broid launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Franz▲877

    Franz combines WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, Gmail, Outlook, and native Signal in one desktop app with AI summaries, workspaces, and privacy-conscious local features.

    2016 · meetfranz.com · its alternatives →

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    Tanka▲1,410

    AI Messenger with smart reply & long term memory for teams

    2025 · tanka.ai · its alternatives →

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    Franz 5▲451

    One desktop app for (almost) all of your messaging apps

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Discovery, chat extensions, and richer experiences

    2017 · facebook.com · its alternatives →

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    Monidfree tier, from $0.0013/mo▲501

    One wallet, every paid tool your agent needs

    Aug 2026 · monid.ai · its alternatives →

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    Build your bot and reach 900 million people around the world

    2016 · developers.facebook.com · its alternatives →

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    Build apps on top of Facebook Messenger

    2015 · messenger.com · its alternatives →

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    Bots that work everywhere

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Connect with your customers through different messaging apps

    2016 · bird.com · its alternatives →

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    Front 3.0▲400

    Team Inboxes for Email, Twitter, Text & more

    2016 · front.com · its alternatives →

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    Hutoma AI▲170

    A marketplace to create and monetize deep learning chatbots

    2017 · hutoma.ai · its alternatives →

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    The best bots for Messenger, Slack, Alexa, Discord and more

    2017 · views4you.com · its alternatives →

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    Automate customer conversations across channels with AI

    2023 · kommunicate.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We've just launched our team collaboration platform where we're bringing together all the important tools under one app. We've been frustrated in the past with tools which had a huge disconnect between projects and chat. It always inevitably leads to teams using external chat apps for "project management" and then abandoning the main tools altogether. We're creating tools we hope teams will stick with. Super integrated Chat. Convert comments to tasks and have them auto added to project boards. Automations to help massively reduce burden on the team. Workflows, Time-Off and so much…

    2024 · teamhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Glue▲291

    Glue is team chat optimized for AI. Today we're releasing support for MCP tools right in your Glue team conversations. Just like MCP in Cursor or Windsurf, you can now use any tool in a private AI chat or any Glue team thread while pulling in its full context to help. Using team chat context for MCP is kind of game-changing, letting you do anything from creating a calendar event or Linear issue to looking up data from an internal system. Our team has been using MCP tools as part of core team workflows for a few weeks now, and it's fantastic. We're particularly fans of remote-hosted MCP…

    2025 · glue.ai · its alternatives →

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    Build rich application-to-user messaging

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Open-source chatbot and AI tools creation platform

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your bots — wherever your users are talking

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bowtie▲149

    An AI messaging platform for any size businesses

    2017 · messenger.mindbodyonline.com · its alternatives →

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    Buzz▲161

    Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place

    Jul 2026 · buzz.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Client library for Minimal Chat. Contribute to minimalchat/client development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chatbots Search Engine

    2016 · chatbottle.co · its alternatives →

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    Onetab▲94

    AI powered communication and collaboration tool

    2024 · onetab.ai · its alternatives →

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    Buidler▲77

    A new home for your community to buidl together

    2022 · its alternatives →

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