Element
Communicate on your terms.
🌐 Sovereign, interoperable and secure communications, built on the Matrix open standard
- 🛡️ Digital sovereignty and data ownership
- Puts you in control of your communications
- Allows you to self-host your communications so you’re not beholden to anyone and own your data
- ✨ State-of-the-art features, design and user experience
- Available on Web, Desktop (Windows / MacOS / Linux) & Mobile (iOS / Android)
- Rich feature set for communication and collaboration
- End-to-end encrypted messaging, voice and video conferencing
- Multi-device support
- and much more…
- 🔍 Open Source for transparency, sovereignty and security
- 🕸️ Decentralisation ensures robust and resilient communications
- 🤝 Federation to engage with others, on your terms
- 💼 Professional, enterprise-grade communication and collaboration for public sector and workplace environments
- L3 Support
- Long-Term Support (LTS)
- Support for air-gapped environments
- Advanced Security Advisory
- Compliance with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
- 🔗 All based on Matrix for interoperability and standardisation
Do you want to learn more about how you can use Element to communicate securely via Matrix for personal use as well as for the professional workplace? Learn more about Element.
🏢 More about Element, the company
Element is the leading upstream vendor for Matrix, the decentralised standard for real time communications.
Element is led by the team that created Matrix, and has contributed more than 90% of key server components and SDKs to the Matrix project. Element continues to develop and maintain that majority of the Matrix open standard, under the guidance of The Matrix Foundation.
Element provides a product portfolio of Matrix clients, backend components and distributions to provide digitally sovereign communications. The majority of Element software is released under AGPLv3, with additional enterprise features available on a subscription basis.
Read more about the relationship between Element and Matrix.
🌍 Element is for everyone, by everyone
We want Element to be for everyone, and we enable everyone to contribute through open source. We embrace diversity to create a better, stronger product for our customers, the community, and all those who recognise the importance of privacy-centric communications.
🌱 Interested in joining?
Our products are for everyone and we know we cannot succeed without a diverse team. Our hiring process is designed to give candidates the best possible chance to show us what they can do. Please feel free to get in touch.
🚀 Get Element
- For personal use, you can simply download the Element app and use it on a server of your choice (like the free Matrix.org public server).
- For self-hosted casual use on a small scale (easily supporting up to 100 users), Element Server Suite Community (ESS Community) is our free-to-use, self-hosted distribution.
- For government, public sector or other professional use, we provide Element Server Suite Pro (ESS Pro).