Bolste vs. Mattermost

Mattermost

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Bolste	Score 9.1 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Bolste™ is a complete business operating system, designed to simplify work-life and help businesses grow by streamlining communication and collaboration. The system brings together separate applications – email, chat, tasks, file-sharing, calendars, and more – into a single, simple platform. Available on the web and via iOS and Android apps, Bolste enables remote users to stay connected and productive from anywhere. The admin console shows employee activity, making it easy to…	$0 per user
Mattermost	Score 9.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	Mattermost from the company of the same name in Palo Alto is a messaging, collaboration and communication platform providing high security and compliance for the businesses that need it.	$0 per month per user

Pricing

Bolste

Mattermost

Editions & Modules

Basic: $0
per user
Pro: $9.99
per month

Free Self-Hosted: $0
per month per user
Professional: $10
per month per user
Enterprise: Contact Us
per month per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Bolste	Mattermost
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

Bolste offers three (3) packages that meet the exact needs of any user. BASIC is a free version perfect for an army of one or for small group to try out the solution. PRO is a more robust version perfect for larger teams and SMB organizations. CORPORATE is a full-scale version perfect for enterprise solutions.

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Community Pulse
	Bolste	Mattermost
Considered Both Products	Bolste No answer on this topic	Mattermost Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost They're very similar. I think it's really a matter of preference. Again, one of the things I like about Mattermost is that it's strictly for business (atleast for us) it's different from the more mainstream messaging apps used so we can kind of separate work vs personal messages. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord Incentivized Helpful? Nayan Shah Senior Software Engineer Chose Mattermost Microsoft Teams and Slack Incentivized Helpful? MR Muhammad Rohan Director Chose Mattermost It's cheaper and similar to Slack. You can break down your project modules better here. It's secure and self-hosted. Incentivized Helpful? JH Jeremy Herman Engineer Chose Mattermost Much more expensive than most chat applications but you have more control over things by self-hosting. Your security team will be able to design a very secure place to store all your code, passwords, and internal details, but most companies will not require this. It would be … Incentivized Helpful? ME Momen Eldyrani SF Admin Chose Mattermost In comparison to Slack, where Slack is strictly for internal communication, Mattermost actually has the format to display and not alter source code. Google chat is also even more limited in comparison to Slack and Mattermost. If you collaborate on code every single day, then … Incentivized Helpful? SI Sid Iyer BizOps Lead Chose Mattermost It is just as good if not better. Can be a superior option depending on the needs of your organization. Incentivized Helpful? JL Justin Leopold Automation Architect Chose Mattermost These products all required cloud connectivity and licensing that was a significant cost. Mattermost allowed us to pilot this among just the Ops team and then evangelize this to the other infrastructure team. This allowed us to slowly show the value of this software and expand … Incentivized Helpful? Atlas Vieira Ops and Project Analyst Chose Mattermost Unlike Slack and Discord, Mattermost is self-hosted and focused on security. I used Discord before for community management and much simpler and less secure operations. Slack is great, but the fact that is cloud based takes out a lot of its independence. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost We used to have Mattermost and now we have Microsoft Teams. They are both very similar. Mattermost and Microsoft Teams are both great for communicating internally via calls, chats, meetings, etc. They are also both easy to set up an use. However, the Microsoft Teams mobile app … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost to reduce cost we shifted to Mattermost. Incentivized Helpful? Kulbhushan Mayer Co-Founder & Technical Architect Chose Mattermost Discord and Microsoft Teams Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost works better in that there aren’t constant updates and changes which can make finding past messages difficult. Mattermost also works better for channel creation and communication Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Slack is by far my personal favorite due to the age of the platform and the maturity of the features. Mattermost is a close 2nd- Incentivized Helpful? Sanjay Singh Business Development Manager Chose Mattermost Honestly iv just used these two but when it comes to customization, they don't come close to Mattermost. Slack and Teams are Less flexible, Not self hosted. Not Open source,etc I will also say that i noticed integration capabilities are very limited with teams and slack and not … Incentivized Helpful? David Noah Controls Engineer Chose Mattermost Mattermost is much faster and easier to use. It also has many more features beyond chat. They are more customizations and features for workflow and messaging on this platform also. The ability to integrate with other platforms via plugins, the security features, and the open … Incentivized Helpful? SR Shannon Robertson Network Engineer Chose Mattermost We cannot connect to the internet so skype/teams is not a possible solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost is easier to use, faster, and less resource-intensive. Cross-platform support is great, and the mobile experience is awesome. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost I feel slack is a bit more difficult to use overall than Mattermost. Mattermost makes the tasks of communicating across departments and team members easier, as well as giving the ability to share information via hyper links, attachments, and other forms of communication among … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost We selected mattermost since we can control storage of our data. Slack is a great tool and offers more robust features compared to mattermost. However, the previously mentioned reason & the competitive pricing allowed us to stick with mattermost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost key selling points for us was that its open source and can be self hosted. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Mattermost is cheaper and offers the possibility of self-hosting compared to other competitors. This is a great advantage for our company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Mattermost Microsoft Teams feels quite clunky and the video chat is buggy. Slack is close but maybe not quite as feature-rich. Mattermost just feels like the right tool for a company my size ~1000+ users. No one has had any major issues with this tool and there haven't been any … Incentivized Helpful? Abhigyan Tiwari Senior Software Engineer Chose Mattermost First of all, we don't lose messages; we can see or search messages from any point in the past. Second, it offers to manage the whole product ourselves from hosting to serving users of our organisation. We feel that we have full control over data, managing users, … Incentivized Helpful? Olga Khazanov Full Stack Software Engineer Chose Mattermost It was selected before i got to the company. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Bolste

Mattermost

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Bolste 8.8 Ratings 13% above category average	Mattermost 8.3 Ratings 7% above category average
Task Management	9.10 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Gantt Charts	8.20 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Scheduling	8.20 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Workflow Automation	9.10 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.10 Ratings	9.10 Ratings
Search	9.10 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Visual planning tools	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Communication

Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
	Bolste 8.7 Ratings 9% above category average	Mattermost 8.4 Ratings 6% above category average
Chat	9.10 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Notifications	8.20 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Discussions	8.20 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	8.20 Ratings	6.10 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	9.10 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	9.10 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	9.10 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Surveys	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Bolste 8.9 Ratings 12% above category average	Mattermost 9.1 Ratings 14% above category average
Versioning	8.20 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Video files	9.10 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Audio files	9.10 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Document collaboration	9.10 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Access control	9.10 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Advanced security features	8.20 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	9.10 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Device sync	9.10 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Bolste	Mattermost
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Bolste	Mattermost
Likelihood to Recommend	Bolste is best suited for companies that rely on team work and e-mail communication within/between departments Jana Woerner Read full review	Mattermost is definitely appropriate for a growing company with team members spread out across the u.s. and Canada. It’s given me the ability to have access to anyone with the information I need or the ability to develop friendships, working relationships with people I otherwise wouldn’t have access to Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Keeps everybody on the same page. Easy to access/use. Jana Woerner Read full review	Easy intergration to our main CRM (Monday.com) I'm not techy myself but I have seen a lot of our previous integrations in Slack transferred over to Mattermost so that's fun The desktop and phone app (android) works well enough. I haven't tried it on the Apple ecosystem yet. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	There is only 7GB of storage in the Plus Pack. Jana Woerner Read full review	Basic features like custom status, collapsed reply threads are JUST rolling out - kind of slow for a workplace chat app. I don't really get the idea of Playbooks and Boards - there are better, dedicated tools for stuff like this and it's not so easy to turn off. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Mattermost works perfectly within our company as a way to communicate seamlessly. I have had no issues with the product and continue to use it often while on and off site. The mobile app allows me to continue to communicate with my team even when I don't have my laptop with me. Incentivized RF Ryne Fiebig Chiropractor Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It's an extremely easy to use software, and I would recommend it to every company that is growing. I think they could improve their notification system, as it gets a little spammy sometimes and important notifications get lost. Also needs to improve the number of private chats that you are allowed to create. Incentivized María Lucía Santagata Coordinadora Ssr Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	We have not had to contact support for Mattermost ever. All that we have needed has been available in the documentation or website. One of our DevOps team members set it up in a couple of hours. The whole team was using Mattermost that same day. No support needed. Incentivized Angela Goldsmith, PMP Director of Systems Development Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	This went as expected. No surprises or major hurdles. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	Unlike Slack and Discord, Mattermost is self-hosted and focused on security. I used Discord before for community management and much simpler and less secure operations. Slack is great, but the fact that is cloud based takes out a lot of its independence. Incentivized Atlas Vieira Ops and Project Analyst Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	The platform is adaptive to storage data center outages in case our cloud storage provider goes away, Mattermost still works with our local database. However, files couldn't be shared. We can switch storage to local temporarily; that's a benefit. Later it all syncs up to main storage. When our team switched to Mattermost from paid solutions, we had much savings and access to unlimited past messages and storage quota (we use our cloud storage provider) We have better visibility of our tools and other products running adjacent to Mattermost due to integration capability. We use it for notifications/ updates sent from other products. Incentivized Abhigyan Tiwari Senior Software Engineer Read full review
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