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MacChanty vs Twist
Chanty vs Twist: verdict, pricing, and specs compared, so you can pick the right one for your Mac.
At a glance
Chanty
Free (up to 5 team members, 20GB team storage); Business from $3/user/mo billed annually ($4/user/mo billed monthly); Enterprise is custom pricingTeam chat with unlimited message history and a built-in task manager — free for small teams, from $3/user/mo for the rest.
Twist
Free forever (1 month of message history, up to 500 members, 5GB storage); Unlimited plan $6/user/mo for full history and unlimited storageThread-based team chat from the makers of Todoist, built to replace always-on chat with asynchronous, on-topic conversations — free forever, or $6/user/mo for full history.
Spec comparison
Chanty
- Price
- Free (up to 5 team members, 20GB team storage); Business from $3/user/mo billed annually ($4/user/mo billed monthly); Enterprise is custom pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- License
- Proprietary
- Placement
- Screen
- Channels
- Mac App Store
- Category
- Utilities
Twist
- Price
- Free forever (1 month of message history, up to 500 members, 5GB storage); Unlimited plan $6/user/mo for full history and unlimited storage
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- License
- Proprietary
- Placement
- Screen
- Channels
- Homebrew · Direct
- Category
- Utilities
The verdict
Chanty and Twist both call themselves Slack alternatives, but they solve different problems. Chanty is real-time chat with a built-in Kanban task manager — free forever for teams up to 5 people, with unlimited searchable history from day one; Business pricing (from $3/user/mo) only kicks in once you outgrow that headcount. Twist deliberately isn’t real-time — no typing indicators, no presence dots, threaded and async by design, built by Doist (the Todoist team) — and its free tier scales further on team size (up to 500 members) but caps history to the last month until you pay $6/user/mo for Unlimited. Worth weighing before a full team migration: some of Chanty’s own Mac App Store reviews flag stability issues, including a white-screen bug and slow reconnects. Pick Chanty if you want live chat plus task tracking in one place; pick Twist if you want to kill the always-on-chat habit and organize by topic instead.
Which one should you pick?
Pick Chanty if…
- Pick Chanty if you want real-time chat, not an intentionally async tool — group calls, screen sharing, and instant messaging
- Pick Chanty if a built-in Kanban task manager, turning messages directly into tracked tasks, is genuinely useful to your team
- Pick Chanty if unlimited searchable message history on the free plan — not capped to a rolling window — matters to you
- Pick Chanty if your team is 5 people or fewer and you want that free indefinitely, not just during a trial
Pick Twist if…
- Pick Twist if you want to get away from real-time chat pressure — no typing indicators or presence dots, threads instead of a live feed
- Pick Twist if your team is larger than 5 people — its free plan covers up to 500 members, where Chanty’s free plan caps at 5
- Pick Twist if you’re already using Todoist and want a companion tool built by the same company, Doist
- Pick Twist if you’re fine with the free plan’s 1-month history window, or ready to pay $6/user/mo for full history
Chanty vs Twist — questions people ask
Which is more like Slack, Chanty or Twist?
Chanty — it’s real-time chat with channels and instant messaging, closer to how Slack works day to day. Twist deliberately avoids real-time chat, organizing everything into threads instead; its own listing contrasts itself directly with Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Which has the more generous free plan?
It depends what you need. Chanty’s free plan caps at 5 team members but keeps unlimited history. Twist’s free plan covers up to 500 members but only keeps 1 month of searchable history.
Has either had reported stability problems?
Some Mac App Store reviews of Chanty report a white-screen bug and slow reconnects — worth testing with your team before migrating fully. No comparable stability complaints turned up for Twist in this listing’s research.