Talkaroo is team chat done right — channels, threads, direct messages, mentions, search and file sharing in one fast, friendly place your whole team can run anywhere.
No credit card required · Free forever for small teams
Acme Inc
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Grace Hopper
Alan Turing
Ada L. 9:41
Landing page is live 🎉 pushed the new hero this morning.
Alan T. 9:44
Nice — shipping the release now.
Ada L. Landing page is live 🎉
Grace H. Testing on iOS now 📱
Alan T. LGTM ✅ ship it
Real-time
Instant delivery
Self-host
Own your data
Unlimited
History & channels
Secure
Roles & audit log
The essentials of great team chat, done fast and kept simple.
A channel for every project, team and topic. Public so people can catch up, private when it matters.
Take the side conversation into a thread and keep the main channel skimmable.
@mention anyone or start a direct message. People get badged instantly — and emailed if they're away.
Every message, file and channel, searchable in a keystroke. Nothing gets lost.
Drag in files and images. Stored on S3-compatible object storage or local disk — your call.
Messages and reactions land instantly over a live connection — no refreshing, no polling.
Sign up and spin up your team's home in seconds. No credit card.
Add people by email — they get an invite link and land in the right channels.
Channels, threads, DMs and search. Everything your team needs to stay in sync.
| Feature | Talkaroo | Slack |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plan — per user / month | $2 | $7.25+ |
| Free plan message history | Unlimited | 90 days |
| Channels, threads, DMs & search | ||
| Mentions & file sharing | ||
| Email when you miss a message | ||
| Self-host & own your data | ||
| No seat-based lock-in |
What your team saves in a year
$630
team of 10 / year
$1,575
team of 25 / year
$3,150
team of 50 / year
$2/user vs Slack Pro at $7.25/user, billed monthly.
Slack plan names and prices are their own, shown for comparison and current as of publication. Not affiliated with Slack Technologies.
Start free. Scale for just $2/member — a fraction of what Slack or Teams charge. Or run it yourself.
Everything a small team needs to start talking.
A fraction of what Slack or Teams charge per user
Unlimited members, admin controls and priority support.
Run it on your own infrastructure and own your data.
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Read →Talkaroo is a team-chat app — channels, threads, direct messages, mentions, search and file sharing — that keeps your whole team in sync and can run anywhere.
It's fast, focused and yours to run. You can use the hosted app or self-host it on your own infrastructure, so your history and data stay under your control.
Yes. It runs as a single web process backed by Postgres, with file storage on any S3-compatible service or local disk. Deploy it, point a domain at it, and you're live.
Yes — messages, reactions and unread badges update instantly over a live server-sent-events connection, with no fixed-interval polling.
Yes. If someone misses messages while they're offline, they get an email digest so nothing important slips through.
Create your workspace in seconds and invite the team by email. It’s free to start.
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