SWITCH FROM MICROSOFT TEAMS
Microsoft Teams to Calisto Equipo
Equipo is the team's chat: Hubs, direct messages and group chats, threads, files, search and Activity, with calls and meetings opened in place with Live, free on every account.
Feature by feature
Calisto Equipo beside Microsoft Teams
- 61 In both
- 1 Only in Microsoft Teams
| 62 features | Calisto Equipo | Microsoft Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Chats | ||
| One-on-One and Group ChatsCalisto: a direct message with one colleague is one place, reused every time; a group chat brings in several.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Chat With YourselfCalisto: New Message offers you by name, and your chat with yourself, for notes, drafts, links and files, is one place reused every time.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Name a Group Chat, Add People With Its History and Leave ItCalisto: anyone in a group chat names it, adds people with no history, the past days or all of it (they read nothing earlier), and leaves it, each shown as a line in the chat; adding people to a one-on-one starts a new group chat.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Chat With People in Other BusinessesCalisto: a chat with people of other businesses sits in the same chat list under External; invite someone by email from New Message and they join when they accept; their business never sees it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Hubs | ||
| Public and Private Spaces for a TeamCalisto: Hubs, each Public (anyone in the business finds, joins and reads it) or Private (its people only), each with one chat and its Folders.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Archive and Restore a SpaceCalisto: an archived Hub keeps its history readable and takes no posts until a manager restores it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Owners Manage a Space and Its PeopleCalisto: who may rename a Hub, change its privacy, archive it and remove people is an owner setting, by default the Hub's creator and the admins.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Guests in a TeamCalisto: any Calisto user given a station that includes Equipo joins its directory by accepting the invitation, and can be added to Hubs (with Station).Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Who Starts Posts in a HubCalisto: whoever may manage a Hub decides who starts new posts in its chat, everyone or only its managers, and whether everyone may still reply in a thread.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Email a HubCalisto: a Hub manager gets the Hub its own email address, chooses who may send to it (anyone, this business or chosen domains), and every email sent to it is posted in the Hub's chat with its files.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Announcements With a HeadlineCalisto: an announcement in a Hub's chat carries a headline, a line under it and a background color.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Post in Several Hubs at OnceCalisto: Post in Several Hubs posts the same message in each Hub the person may post in, and each copy says where else it went.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Messages | ||
| Reply in a ThreadCalisto: replies sit in the message's thread, with the full composer; the conversation shows the reply count and the last reply.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Rich Text FormattingCalisto: bold, italic, strikethrough, code and code blocks, written as the message will read for everyone.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Emoji in MessagesCalisto: an emoji picker in the composer, and emoji typed on any keyboard.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| ReactionsCalisto: reactions on any message, with who reacted.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Mention a Person or Everyone HereCalisto: @ a colleague or @hub for everyone in the conversation, notified even when they muted it for a direct mention.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Edit or Delete a Sent MessageCalisto: your own messages are edited or deleted for everyone, and an edited message says so.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Forward a MessageCalisto: forward a message with its files to any chat or Hub, with a note.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Pin a Message for EveryoneCalisto: pinned messages are listed in the conversation's Pins for everyone in it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Save a MessageCalisto: saved messages are your own list, Saved.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Link to a MessageCalisto: Copy Link opens the conversation at that message, inside its thread when it is a reply.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Translate a MessageCalisto: Translate shows a message in your language.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Audio ClipsCalisto: hold the microphone to record and release to send; the words are written under the clip.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Reply With a QuoteCalisto: Reply With Quote puts the message above the composer, and the reply shows the quoted author and words, which open the original.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| GIFs and StickersCalisto: the composer's GIFs and Stickers, searched by name and keyword, with your recent ones first: animated emoji, stickers, and your business's own library, where anyone adds a picture for everyone and your admins keep it tidy.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Mention a Department, a Role or Who Is on ShiftCalisto: after the people, the @ picker offers the business's departments and roles, each also for only its people on shift now, and reaches only the conversation's own people in that group (with Workforce).Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Mark a Message Important or UrgentCalisto: Delivery Options sends a message as Important or Urgent; Urgent reaches people who muted the conversation and tells them again every two minutes for twenty minutes until they read it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule a MessageCalisto: Schedule Message sends a message at a chosen date and time; until then its author sees it in the conversation with Edit, Change Time, Send Now and Cancel.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Read ReceiptsCalisto: a chat of up to twenty people shows Seen or Sent under your latest message and, in a group chat, Read By on each of yours; each person can turn read receipts off, which hides them both ways.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Polls in a ChatCalisto: a poll with two to ten choices, with multiple answers, anonymous votes and results after voting as options, is voted on its card, its tally updates for everyone, and its author closes it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Video and Screen ClipsCalisto: the composer records up to a minute of camera, or of a screen or window on a desk, with pause, resume and retake, and sends it as a video message with its words written under it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Link PreviewsCalisto: a message's first link shows a card with the page's title, description, site and picture, read by Calisto's server so a reader's address never reaches the site; the author removes it with its close button.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Files | ||
| Share Files in a ChatCalisto: paste, drop or attach files; each is a Depot file, filed in the Hub (in the Folder you choose) or kept with the direct message.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Files TabCalisto: the conversation's Files panel lists what was shared, and a Hub's Folders and everything filed in it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Several Files in One MessageCalisto: one message carries its words and up to ten files, pasted, dropped or attached, and with no signal the whole message waits on the device with its files.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Organizing | ||
| Mark a Chat as UnreadCalisto: Mark as Unread on a conversation, or unread from a message onward.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Mute a ChatCalisto: a muted conversation notifies you only when someone mentions you.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Pin a Chat to the TopCalisto: pinned conversations stay at the top of your list.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Your Own Sections in the Chat ListCalisto: the business arranges the chat list's sections for everyone and each person pins their own conversations on top; a person does not make sections of their own, because the owner chose that the business organizes the list.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Hide a ChatCalisto: Hide takes a chat out of your list until a new message arrives in it, and Hidden Chats at the end of the list shows them again.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Open a Chat in a New WindowCalisto: Open in New Window on a chat's menu, or a double-click on a desk, opens the conversation alone in its own window, one window per conversation.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Search | ||
| Search Messages With FiltersCalisto: search every conversation you can read, narrowed by person, conversation, a file and a date range.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Find in a ChatCalisto: Find in Conversation highlights every match in the open conversation.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Notifications | ||
| Activity FeedCalisto: Activity lists the mentions, replies and reactions that need you.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Notifications per Chat and ChannelCalisto: each conversation notifies you of every message, or only of mentions when you mute it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Quiet Time on a PhoneCalisto: daily quiet hours and whole quiet days silence the person's phones, while their desk, the bell and Activity still get everything.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Presence | ||
| Change Your StatusCalisto: Available, Busy, Do not disturb, Away or Appear offline, chosen from the sidebar.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Status Message That Clears ItselfCalisto: a status message with an emoji, shown to colleagues and cleared at the time you choose.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Status DurationCalisto: any status but Available is set for 30 minutes, an hour, two hours, today, this week or until a chosen time, and then resets by itself.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Out of OfficeCalisto: an out of office message runs now or for a chosen period, shows beside the person's name wherever colleagues see them, and above the composer of a direct message to them.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| In a Meeting From the CalendarCalisto: a meeting on the person's calendar that is under way shows In a meeting while their status is automatic.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Calls and Meetings | ||
| Call or Video Call From a ChatCalisto: Call and Video Call in a conversation ring its people and open the call in place, and a call under way shows Join (with Live).Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule a Meeting From a ChannelCalisto: Schedule a Meeting from a Hub's chat posts the invitation there, and the recap comes back to it (with Live).Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Record and Transcribe CallsCalisto: a call is Live's meeting, recorded and transcribed with its summary (with Live).Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile | ||
| Walkie TalkieCalisto: hold to talk in any conversation; a phone with Walkie-Talkie on plays each voice message as it arrives.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Apps | ||
| Incoming Webhooks Into a ChannelCalisto: an Automations address takes a post from any tool and its rule posts in a Hub (with Automations).Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| ShiftsCalisto: the team's schedule, open shifts and swaps (with Workforce).Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Approvals From a ChatCalisto: a request with details and files goes to approvers chosen from the chat's people, decided by the first answer or by everyone, on its card or in their Approvals, and its author can withdraw it.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Tabs in a Hub or ChatCalisto: Chat and its tabs sit under a conversation's header, and Add a Tab pins anything filed in its Hub or shared in the chat, or a website, opened in the conversation.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Lists, Tables and Checklists Edited in a ChatCalisto: the composer posts a checklist, a list, a table or a paragraph that everyone in the conversation edits right in it, live; it is a Doc shared with them that also opens in Docs.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Desktop | ||
| Keyboard ShortcutsCalisto: N new message, U unread, A activity, S saved and / search, listed with ?.Checked 2 Nov 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from Microsoft Teams
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Microsoft Teams and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Microsoft Teams can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Moving from Microsoft Teams
Questions about switching
Where do our channels go?
Each channel becomes a Hub, Public or Private, with its chat and its Folders. The same Hub is in Depot, Docs and every app that groups work.
Where do calls and meetings happen?
Call, Video Call and Schedule a Meeting in a conversation open Live in place, and the call's line and the meeting's recap come back to the conversation.
Do people need a seat?
No. Equipo is part of every account, and every member of the business is in its directory.
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