band.us
BAND
Who runs BAND, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest group messaging app alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- GroupMe
Measured from BAND’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit BAND01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs BAND
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What BAND tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 13 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on BAND’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to BAND
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to BAND, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read band.us’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
GroupMe | Group chat app
Group text messaging to every phone. The easy way to connect with all the groups in your life, big and small.
Very close - 02
Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools
Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
Very close - 03
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Very close - 04
Online Community Platform for Creators & Coaches | Heartbeat
The online community platform for creators and coaches. Run memberships, courses, events and payments in one place you own. 37,000+ communities built.
Close - 05
Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
Very close - 06
Mattermost | Operational and AI Sovereignty for Critical Infrastructure and National Security
Zero-trust collaboration, automation and AI in private cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments. Built for national security, critical infrastructure, and regulated enterprises.
Very close - 07
Circle | The complete community platform
Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.
Very close - 08
Messenger
Hang out anytime, anywhere—Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay close to your favorite people
Close - 09
Build Your Own Branded Community App
Create your own branded community app with Disciple. Bring your people, content and commerce together in one place. Available on iOS, Android & web.
Close - 10
LINE｜always at your side.
More than just a messenger app. LINE is new level of communication and the very infrastructure of your life.
Very close - 11
Interoperable by Design. Governed by You | Rocket.Chat
Messaging, voice, video, apps, and AI that connect you with allies and partners on any system. Deployed anywhere, entirely under your control.
Close - 12
Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Very close - 13
Buffer: Social media management for everyone
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
Very close - 14
Appcues | AI-Powered Customer Engagement Platform
Appcues is an AI-powered customer engagement platform that triggers in-app, email, and push experiences right when users are paying attention.
Very close - 15
WhatsApp | Secure and Reliable Free Private Messaging and Calling
Use WhatsApp Messenger to stay in touch with friends and family. WhatsApp is free and offers simple, secure, reliable messaging and calling, available on phones all over the world.
Very close - 16
BeReal
Your daily dose of real life.
Close - 17
Grok
Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
Very close - 18
Respond.io | AI-Powered Customer Conversation Platform
Trusted by 10,000+ B2C businesses to scale customer chats, calls & campaigns. Unify WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook in a team inbox with AI Agents on respond.io
Very close - 19
Any.do: To-do list and team task board that works with AI agents
Any.do is a shared task board for small teams, and a to-do list, planner and calendar for you and your family. Connect ChatGPT, Claude or Codex to add and update your tasks. Trusted by 50M+ people.
Very close - 20
Customer Experience Platform | Airship
Airship is the only mobile-first customer experience platform that delivers measurable results through AI-powered, unified cross-channel experiences.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles BAND’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones BAND uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what BAND adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to BAND’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Languages & backends
- Java cookie JSESSIONID
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=UVwfj29NdwllsnRdaQBmJIaKStoEn119D8wbaITrCDc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace · not on band.us 14/20
- HubSpot · not on band.us 10/20
- Zendesk · not on band.us 9/20
- Atlassian · not on band.us 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on band.us 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on band.us 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on band.us 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on band.us 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on band.us 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on band.us 7/20
- Google Fonts · not on band.us 6/20
- Apple Business · not on band.us 6/20
- Stripe · not on band.us 6/20
- OneTrust · not on band.us 5/20
- SendGrid · not on band.us 5/20