{"id":6802,"date":"2023-04-20T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.almtoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2025-05-09T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:52:26","slug":"whatsapp-alternative-mattermost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.almtoolbox.com\/blog\/whatsapp-alternative-mattermost\/","title":{"rendered":"Mattermost: The WhatsApp Alternative Ensuring Privacy and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know that <em>Mattermost<\/em> can be used as a <em>WhatsApp<\/em> replacement,<br \/>\nincluding a much more private and secure chat and communication tool &#8211; and even for free?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6806 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.almtoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2023\/04\/whatsapp-g7c6358e39_640-1.jpg\" alt=\"whatsapp alternative\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.almtoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/whatsapp-g7c6358e39_640-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.almtoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/whatsapp-g7c6358e39_640-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.almtoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/whatsapp-g7c6358e39_640-1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is possible both on mobile devices (as an application similar to WhatsApp &#8211; including iOS and Android)<br \/>\nand as desktop software installed on computers (Windows, Linux, Mac)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Mattermost can be used in 3 ways:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Self-hosted in your servers (with all the protections you want such as a firewall)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a public cloud \/ SaaS (multi-tenant), so you don\u2019t have to manage the server by yourself<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private cloud &#8211; Self-hosted on your private server in any cloud (also possible as a managed service we provide to our customers &#8211; so you don&#8217;t have to deal with server maintenance yourself)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Unlike WhatsApp, Mattermost offers additional security capabilities:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enforcement of MFA<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connection via SSO \/ SAML<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connection through LDAP and AD<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connection through OpenID<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advanced authorization system according to users and groups<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and more<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition &#8211; there is a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">privacy<\/span> <\/strong>advantage:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nyour information does not go to the Facebook \/ Meta company,<br \/>\nand you can always install your own private server and thus give you full control over the server side and the information.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Mattermost also offers additional and advanced benefits:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Displaying the entire discussion history in the group even for new users who join (not available on WhatsApp)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Option to block sending messages that do not comply with company policy (such as blocking IP addresses)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support for combining Right-to-left languages (and Left-to-right) in the same sentence<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Option to send automatic reminders<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ability to conduct discussions in a hierarchical manner (Threaded Topics)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Option to turn discussions into tasks (including a board that centers tasks)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possibility to build bots, automations and integrations for organizational tools (such as GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Jenkins and more)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Option to define playbooks for organizational processes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full desktop apps for a variety of operating systems (not just web apps)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audio calls<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voice calls<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Screen sharing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing messages in Rich format<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And much more!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Interested in Mattermost?<\/h3>\n<p>You can contact us for the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explanations on how to connect to the system, install it and use it<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A detailed comparison table of all the capabilities of the system, segmented by cloud\/private installation and free\/non-free capabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obtaining a trial license for all system capabilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obtaining prices for licensing and quotation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and of course for any question!<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Contact us: <a href=\"mailto:mattermost@almtoolbox.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mattermost@almtoolbox.com<\/a> or Call 866-503-1471 \/ +31 85 064 4633<\/h4>\n<h3>Mattermost Overview (2 min):<\/h3>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; 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