# Twake review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open-source workplace suite with chat, mail and drive Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Twake is an open-source workplace suite from the French company LINAGORA that includes Twake Chat, Drive, Mail, Visio and Calendar under one account. Twake Chat is built on the Matrix protocol, so it can bridge to Telegram, Discord and Signal. The company says data is stored in France and that you can also install the suite on your own servers with Docker. - **Category:** Team Communication - **Made by:** LINAGORA - **Website:** https://twake.app/en/ - **Runs on:** macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need video calls inside chat today, as the Chat page marks Jitsi as coming soon. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Twake has a free plan, and paid plans start at €4.00 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free plan with 5 GB of cloud storage, a 1 GB mailbox with 100 emails a day, instant messaging, notes and unlimited authorized devices; not a promotion. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Découvrir | €0.00 | 5 GB cloud storage, 1 GB mailbox with 100 emails a day, instant messaging and collaborative notes. | | Standard | €4.00 per month | 50 GB cloud storage, 15 GB mailbox with unlimited emails a day, and an Office document editor. | | Premium | €12.00 per month | 1,000 GB cloud storage, a 500 GB mailbox with unlimited emails a day, and an Office document editor. | | Enterprise | Custom | Offer for companies and local authorities, with a personal cloud for each user. Contact the company. | Read from https://twake.app/plans/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Twake before buying. ## Key features - **Matrix-based chat:** Twake Chat runs on the Matrix protocol, with direct and group chats, channels, and optional extra end-to-end encryption. - **Bridges to other messengers:** The Matrix protocol lets Twake Chat send and receive messages on networks such as Telegram, Discord and Signal. - **Drive, Mail and Calendar:** The same account opens Drive for file storage with Office-format editing, Mail for email and Calendar for scheduling. - **Video conferencing:** Twake Visio is a video conferencing product, and the Chat page lists Jitsi videoconferencing as coming soon. - **Hosted in France:** The site says all data is stored in France under GDPR rules, with SSL/TLS and WebSocket communication enabled. - **On-premise installation:** Twake Chat, Drive and Mail can be installed on your own servers using Docker, according to the site. ## Good for - European organizations that want data kept in France - Teams that want chat, mail and files from one open-source vendor - Public bodies that need to self-host their collaboration suite ## Worth knowing - The plans page was readable only in French, with prices in euros; storage and mailbox size, not chat, differ between plans. - The Office document editor is not included on the free plan. - No annual prices or business seat prices are shown; the company plan is quoted on request. - Video conferencing inside Twake Chat is marked coming soon on the Chat page. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Twake bundles chat, mail, drive, video and calendar under one account, with chat on the Matrix protocol and the option to host it yourself. Chat is the same on every plan, but the Office editor is paid, the plans page we read was in French and euros only, and video inside chat is still marked coming soon. - **Value for money: B.** Free plan at €0 with 5 GB of storage and a 1 GB mailbox; Standard is €4 a month and Premium €12, against a category whose cheaper quarter starts at $3.50. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The free plan has instant messaging, notes and unlimited devices. The caps are 5 GB of storage and 100 emails a day. - **Features: C.** Chat, drive, mail, calendar and video in one account, but the Office editor is not on the free plan and Chat's video is marked coming soon. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and the listing shows apps to install across several products plus bridges to set up for Telegram, Discord or Signal. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android, with Matrix bridges and OnlyOffice. The listing shows no web version or API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Twake's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among team communication apps - Twake's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 29 of the 50 other team communication apps we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 33 of 50) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $4.47 a month, against a middle price of $7 for the category: 12 of the 38 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 11 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/team-chat ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Twake you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $53.63 a year. Twake is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could make: Calendar: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Chat that a whole team counts on staying up. - You could not: Storing and serving files for other people. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Matrix, Telegram and Discord among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Matrix, Telegram, Discord, Signal, Jitsi, OnlyOffice **Tags:** Team chat, Open source, Self-hostable, File sharing, Calendar ## Alternatives - [Element](https://toolgpa.com/tools/element): End-to-end encrypted chat and calls on the Matrix standard. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/element-vs-twake) - [Matrix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/matrix): Open, decentralized network for chat and calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/matrix-vs-twake) - [Mattermost](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mattermost): Self-hosted team messaging with playbooks, calls and boards. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mattermost-vs-twake) - [Rocket.Chat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rocket-chat): Open-source, self-managed chat for security-focused teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rocket-chat-vs-twake) - [Zulip](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zulip): Open-source team chat that organizes channels by topic. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/twake-vs-zulip) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://twake.app/plans/ - https://twake.app/en/ - https://twake.app/download/ - https://twake-chat.com/en Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/twake Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).