Element Free Video Conferencing Software
Group Video Messenger App With Latest Chat Privacy Settings
Matrix Network based free open source video messenger app. It offers utmost security and provides integrations with other chat applications such as Slack.
Overview
Element is an open source free video conferencing software with many powerful features such as file sharing, voice calls, encrypted messages, and group collaborations. It is based on a Matrix that is an open network for decentralized communication. This team communication software gives you complete control over chat data so no third party can perform mining for advertisement purposes. However, this video messenger app comes with self-hosting capabilities and you can host it for personnel and business use cases.
This team collaboration app provides support for unlimited connections and supports integration with any Matrix-based app and bridges into other systems such as Slack. Moreover, it offers secured video/audio communications with end-to-end encryption and cross-signed device verification to make sure data integrity and privacy. Further, Element provides a shared place to talk and work where users can share their screens with one another. Above all, you have the provision to decide whether you want to store data on your hardware or you can opt for Element Matrix Services.
Element app is available for Android, IOS, and Web. It is written in HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Perl. Therefore, documentation of this team communication software is available for users and developers.
Features
Element offers the following key features:
- Open Source
- Video Recording
- Audio/Video Privacy
- Secure
- End to End Encryption
- Integrations With Third Party Apps
- Screen Sharing
- File Sharing
- Supports Cross-Signed Device Verification
- Fast
- Extensible
- Fully Documented
- Group Chats
- Support For Unlimited Participants
- Multipurpose
Installation Instructions
Element is based on matrix-react-sdk and matrix-js-sdk modules. Therefore, let’s set them up first.
First, run the following command to clone and build matrix-js-sdk
git clone https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk.git
After a successful clone, run the following commands
pushd matrix-js-sdkyarn linkyarn installpopd
Similarly, run the following commands to set up matrix-react-sdk
git clone https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk.gitpushd matrix-react-sdkyarn linkyarn link matrix-js-sdkyarn installpopd
Now, setup the Element application and run by running the following commands
git clone https://github.com/vector-im/element-web.gitcd element-webyarn link matrix-js-sdkyarn link matrix-react-sdkyarn installyarn start
Finally, access this Video Messenger App at this URL http://127.0.0.1:8080/ into the browser.
