Purpose-built for group chats and community chatting in 2025.

Built as simple 1 on 1 text message app in 2009, now spread thin on everything.

Extensive user profiles with group-specific questions, email addresses and social profile links including LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter.

Only has name and number.

Multi-threaded with ability to create public, private or hidden 'topics' within a chat.

Single threaded. Communities feature difficult to use.

AI has full context of a chat, posts relevant information when needed and can summarize posted articles.

AI only can see a single message and responses are difficult to understand.

Create events, manage group calendar, set messages for the future.

Highly limited events feature.

Tribe keeps you updated by email as well as mobile notifications.

Only mobile.

Host can record a welcome video for members.

Not available.

Has robust Twitter integration with more integration coming.

None.

Tribe trains your existing team on best group chat host practices and can also provide trained hosts.

No host training provided.

Can make your chat discoverable/public, with an application process. Can also apply to other chats to join them!

No discovery or application process.

Tribe AI allows for skinning existing photos and recognizing posted memes/photos. Can easily launch a trivia game, generated by AI or manual. Many more fun activities are coming.

Only supports messaging.

Access directly to founders, engineers and designers — as well as other chat hosts and ambassadors.

No access to developers or team.