Teams choosing Team Chat Tools in July 2026 face a crowded set of communication, discussion, notification, and collaboration projects with very different maintenance signals. The ToolVitals data here compares open/source-visible tools using supplied health score, shipping score, ToolVitals score, GitHub stars, openness_label, license_label, and status.
This ranking includes open/source-visible tools only and orders them by ToolVitals score first, with GitHub stars used as a secondary popularity signal when scores are tied. Every tool in this dataset is labeled OSI-approved OSS, and each license_label is reported as supplied rather than generalized.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Element | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 93 | 100 | 13259 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | SimpleX Chat | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 94 | 89 | 17723 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Haven Chat | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 89 | 95 | 484 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Lemmy | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 87 | 82 | 14472 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | agentgram | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 79 | 93 | 30 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | WPPConnect | OSI-approved OSS | LGPL-3.0 | 87 | 78 | 3356 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | PlugNmeet | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 79 | 90 | 502 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | Discourse | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-2.0 | 85 | 72 | 47389 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | CBoard | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 76 | 78 | 741 | 82 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | Owncast | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 76 | 71 | 11385 | 81 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | Ethora | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 76 | 71 | 542 | 81 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | Habitat | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 71 | 71 | 142 | 77 | 🟢 Good |
| 13 | CryptPad | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 80 | 47 | 7759 | 74 | 🟢 Good |
| 14 | Frappe Gameplan | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 64 | 63 | 502 | 72 | 🟢 Good |
| 15 | Gotify | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 65 | 41 | 15219 | 64 | 🟢 Good |
| 16 | HappyDeliver | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 56 | 42 | 216 | 60 | 🟢 Good |
| 17 | Late.fyi | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 54 | 30 | 0 | 53 | 🟡 Fair |
| 18 | Deskive | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 47 | 28 | 23 | 50 | 🟡 Fair |
| 19 | Twake | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 38 | 0 | 1921 | 39 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 20 | Helpy | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 36 | 0 | 2483 | 34 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 21 | Kap | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 33 | 0 | 19266 | 33 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 22 | OpenPaaS | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 23 | 0 | 486 | 31 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 23 | OpenStreamPoll | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 21 | 0 | 21 | 30 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 24 | Glimesh | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 23 | 0 | 491 | 28 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Element ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 97, the highest score in the set. Its shipping score is 100 and health score is 93, with 13,259 GitHub stars. The supplied openness_label is OSI-approved OSS and the license_label is AGPL-3.0.
SimpleX Chat ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 94 and the strongest health score among the top two at 94. It also has 17,723 GitHub stars, more than Element, but ranks lower because the primary ordering is ToolVitals score. The supplied openness_label is OSI-approved OSS and the license_label is AGPL-3.0.
Haven Chat ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 91, supported by a 95 shipping score and 89 health score. Its GitHub star count is much smaller than the two tools above it at 484, so its position is driven by the ToolVitals score rather than broad GitHub popularity. The supplied openness_label is OSI-approved OSS and the license_label is AGPL-3.0.
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