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Grape vs Microsoft Teams
March 12, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
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Take your conversations with you, wherever you go. Stay connected to your colleagues and don't miss a discussion anymore - the ChatGrape mobile apps for iOS and Android will keep you updated and let you join the conversation easily, no matter where you are. Reference all data from your external services from within ChatGrape right as you type - with an autocomplete that knows your business.
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Microsoft Teams is the chat-based workspace in Office 365 that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. Supports video meetings with up to 1,000 participants.
Grape and Microsoft Teams are both splendidly complicated ways for humans to communicate, which is ironic considering that humans already have an abundance of ways to ignore each other. Both allow for messaging, file sharing and video conferencing—meaning you can now be simultaneously overwhelmed by unread messages, misplaced documents and a live video feed of your colleague forgetting to mute themselves. They integrate with other software, presumably to ensure that no task is ever truly completed but rather continuously shuffled between different apps like a digital shell game. Security features exist, but only to give you the comforting illusion that your sensitive company secrets aren’t being accidentally emailed to a mailing list containing both your boss and your dog’s vet.
Grape, a fine Austrian creation from 2015, prides itself on privacy-first messaging, which is a noble cause in an age where people will willingly tell the internet their breakfast choices but panic over cookies tracking them. It’s built for enterprises and governments that prefer their communications locked away in a metaphorical vault, guarded by a grumpy IT department. It also boasts an AI-powered search function, meaning that if an employee misplaces an important file, they can now receive a helpful, algorithmically generated response saying, "No results found." Unlike Microsoft Teams, it hasn’t quite conquered the world, but this is probably because it hasn’t yet figured out how to come pre-installed on every computer ever.
Microsoft Teams, meanwhile, erupted onto the scene in 2017 as Microsoft’s answer to the question, “What if we took every possible office interaction and compressed it into one single, perpetually updating interface?” It’s seamlessly tied to Microsoft 365, so seamlessly that some users wake up one day to discover they’ve been using it for years without realizing it. Designed for enterprises, remote workers and anyone who enjoys meetings about meetings, it also has large-scale collaboration features, meaning you can now attend a webinar featuring a thousand people simultaneously pretending their microphones don’t work. Unlike Grape, Teams has successfully wormed its way into nearly every office and educational institution on the planet, which some suspect may be a ploy by Microsoft to ensure that no one, ever, is truly offline.
See also: Top 10 Team Messaging platforms
Grape, a fine Austrian creation from 2015, prides itself on privacy-first messaging, which is a noble cause in an age where people will willingly tell the internet their breakfast choices but panic over cookies tracking them. It’s built for enterprises and governments that prefer their communications locked away in a metaphorical vault, guarded by a grumpy IT department. It also boasts an AI-powered search function, meaning that if an employee misplaces an important file, they can now receive a helpful, algorithmically generated response saying, "No results found." Unlike Microsoft Teams, it hasn’t quite conquered the world, but this is probably because it hasn’t yet figured out how to come pre-installed on every computer ever.
Microsoft Teams, meanwhile, erupted onto the scene in 2017 as Microsoft’s answer to the question, “What if we took every possible office interaction and compressed it into one single, perpetually updating interface?” It’s seamlessly tied to Microsoft 365, so seamlessly that some users wake up one day to discover they’ve been using it for years without realizing it. Designed for enterprises, remote workers and anyone who enjoys meetings about meetings, it also has large-scale collaboration features, meaning you can now attend a webinar featuring a thousand people simultaneously pretending their microphones don’t work. Unlike Grape, Teams has successfully wormed its way into nearly every office and educational institution on the planet, which some suspect may be a ploy by Microsoft to ensure that no one, ever, is truly offline.
See also: Top 10 Team Messaging platforms
