Element

Group messenger - encrypted messaging, group chat and video calls

Element is both a secure messenger and productivity team collaboration app that's ideal for group chats while working remotely. This chat app uses end-to-end encryption to provide powerful video conferencing, file sharing, and voice calling.

Element functions include:

- Advanced online communication tools

- Fully encrypted messages to enable more secure corporate communication, even for people working remotely

- Decentralized chat based on the open source Matrix framework

- Securely share files with encrypted data while managing projects

- Video chats with Voice over IP and screen sharing

- Easy integration with your favorite online collaboration tools, project management tools, VoIP services, and other team messaging apps

Element is completely different from other messaging and collaboration apps. It operates on Matrix, an open network for secure messaging and decentralized communication. It allows self-hosting to give users maximum ownership and control of their data and messages.

Privacy and encrypted messaging

Element protects you from unwanted ads, datamining and walled gardens. It also secures all your data, one-to-one video and voice communication through end-to-end encryption and cross-signed device verification.

Element gives you control over your privacy while allowing you to communicate securely with anyone on the Matrix network, or other collaboration tools by integrating with apps such as Slack.

Element can be self-hosted

To allow more control over your sensitive data and conversations, Element can be self-hosted or you can choose any host based on Matrix - the standard for open source and decentralized communication. Element gives you privacy, security compliance, and integration flexibility.

Own your data

You decide where to keep your data and messages. Without the risk of data mining or third party access.

Element puts you in control in different ways:

1. Get a free account on the public server matrix.org hosted by Matrix developers, or choose from thousands of public servers hosted by people volunteering

2. Self-host your account by running a server on your own IT infrastructure

3. Sign up for an account on a custom server by simply subscribing to the Element Matrix Services hosting platform

Open messaging and collaboration

You can chat with anyone on the Matrix network, whether they are using Element, another Matrix app, or even if they are using a different messaging app.

Super safe

True end-to-end encryption (only those in the conversation can decrypt messages), and cuzado signed device verification.

Complete communication and integration

Messaging, voice and video calls, file sharing, screen sharing and a bunch of integrations, bots and widgets. Build rooms, communities, stay in touch and get things done.

Continue where you left off

Stay in touch wherever you are with message history completely synced across all your devices and the web at https://app.element.io

Open source

Element Android is an open source project, hosted by GitHub. Please report bugs and/or contribute to its development at https://github.com/vector-im/element-android