• Login
  • Download Apps
  • About
  • Support & FAQs
  • Testimonials
  • Partners
  •  
  •  Get started
  •  Pricing
  •  Features
  •  In action
  •  Why Unison

How Unison compares

Unison is faster and better organized than instant messaging or social networks. It will speed up the way your team shares and gets feedback. Unison keeps teams on the same page:

  •  
  • Business instant messengers

    Campfire, HipChat etc

  • Unison

  • Enterprise social network

    Yammer, Chatter etc

Super organized   
  • Separate spaces for each project, issue or
  • team
Yes, create multiple chat groups
Yes, create as many Unison "rooms" as you need — and control the membership of each
Products oriented around a single noisy stream of updates, not on separate spaces
  • Each space organized into multiple threads
No, just a single, long jumble of chat messages in each space
Unison "rooms" contain posts, with comments under each — easier to follow and organize
Posts with comments: easier to follow
  • See who is "in" each space and thread
  • right now
No live presence-awareness
See who is "in" the room and specific thread with you right now
No separate rooms with presence, just a single noisy stream of people
  • Post and talk:
  • Text
  • Docs and files
  • Images
  • Voice notes
No voice notes
All available from computer, smartphone, tablet, including ability to send voice notes in chats or into rooms
No voice notes
  • Easily add people outside your company
Mostly designed for internal group discussions
Create secure, shared rooms with clients, vendors, contractors, etc
Clunky "external group" function, bolted on as an afterthought
Convenient, secure messaging   
  • Text, audio, video chat one-to-one
Text only
Chat by text, voice or video
Text only
  • Group voice conferences with one click
No live voice or video — need to schedule a conference call (ugh)
Start a team call from a computer, smartphone or tablet. Works in Chrome without a plugin
No live voice or video — need to schedule a conference call (ugh)
  • 256-bit encryption for security
     
High speed   
  • Rapid messaging
Fast IM with correct read/unread status
Web-only IM; no accurate read/unread flags
  • Real-time free/busy status to see
  • availability
Often inaccurate
Instantly updates green/orange/red across all devices, based on user's actual presence
Horribly inaccurate — apps fundamentally not designed for realtime usage or to track presence
  • Instant syncing of all content across all
  • devices
Slower than Unison, poor/no device sync
Zero lag time, content refreshes in real time and "follows" you across devices
Sloooooow, need to refresh the screen manually to see updated content
Works anywhere   
  • Full suite of apps for:
  • Web
  •     (Chrome, FF, IE, Safari, others)
  • Windows
  • Mac
  • iOS
  • Android
Some apps
Fast, native apps on all platforms
Slow, crashy desktop apps, often based on Adobe AIR

Work together, better.

Unison gives your team a virtual office space to work together from anywhere in the world.

  • GROUPS

    Create groups for your whole company or for individual projects. Unison makes it easy to share information broadly or in restricted groups.

  • WORKS ANYWHERE

    Unison has apps for PC, Mac, iPhone and Android, as well as a web-based application. It notifies you when something urgent comes up, so you'll never miss an important message.

  • REAL-TIME COMMENTS

    Instead of chaotic email threads, in Unison you post updates to a group. Alerts tell you when something important has been posted, and if you need to reference an update from the past, you can, because Unison never erases conversations.

  • SHARE DOCUMENTS

    Upload or paste a document into a Unison group and your whole team can see and discuss it in real time.

  • VOICE NOTES

    With the push of one button on your smartphone, you can record a voice message and post it to a group, or send it one-on-one.

  • VERIFIED PRESENCE

    Accurate statuses show you who is available right now, so there's no more messaging and waiting, only to find out they aren't there. You see who's doing what, so you don't have to wait to work.

  • PRIVATE IM

    You can send quick messages or talk live one-to-one with voice and video. If there's no time to type you can quickly send private voice notes from your mobile device.

Security

Feel secure.

We know how important security, privacy, and mobile access are to your business.

  • PIECE OF MIND, NOW ENCRYPTED

    Unison encrypts traffic between its clients and our cloud servers using military-grade 256-bit encryption.

    It is a much more secure way to communicate than email, which often travels unencrypted.

  • ACCESS GRANTED

    Unison 'rooms' are open to your staff, or restricted to members only, you decide.

    And with Unison, you can collaborate with external people, like clients or partners, and you are able to control their access rights, so they see only what you intended.

  • CLOUD CONTROL

    Unison's cloud-based servers are hosted on Amazon Web Services using highly fault-resistant clustering technology for both high availability and backup copies in real time.

    All data resides in the United States

  • HIGHLY EXPERIENCED TEAM

    Our management team comes from Intermedia, the world's largest provider of cloud-hosted Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, and a trusted leader in digital security.

    Intermedia hosts over 500,000 seats of business email and collaboration software, the largest dedicated business cloud provider to enterprises globally.

  • Login
  • Download Apps
  •  
  •  
  • Terms of service
  • Privacy policy
  • Security
  • About us
  • Partners
  • Testimonials