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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Rich Text FormattingCalisto: bold, italic, strikethrough, code and code blocks, written as the message will read for everyone.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Emoji in MessagesCalisto: an emoji picker in the composer, and emoji typed on any keyboard.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| ReactionsCalisto: reactions on any message, with who reacted.Checked Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Forward a MessageCalisto: forward a message with its files to any chat or Hub, with a note.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Pin a Message for EveryoneCalisto: pinned messages are listed in the conversation's Pins for everyone in it.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Save a MessageCalisto: saved messages are your own list, Saved.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Link to a MessageCalisto: Copy Link opens the conversation at that message, inside its thread when it is a reply.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Translate a MessageCalisto: Translate shows a message in your language.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Audio ClipsCalisto: hold the microphone to record and release to send; the words are written under the clip.Checked Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Organizing | ||
| Mark a Chat as UnreadCalisto: Mark as Unread on a conversation, or unread from a message onward.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Mute a ChatCalisto: a muted conversation notifies you only when someone mentions you.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Pin a Chat to the TopCalisto: pinned conversations stay at the top of your list.Checked Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Find in a ChatCalisto: Find in Conversation highlights every match in the open conversation.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Notifications | ||
| Activity FeedCalisto: Activity lists the mentions, replies and reactions that need you.Checked Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Notifications per Chat and ChannelCalisto: each conversation notifies you of every message, or only of mentions when you mute it.Checked Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Presence | ||
| Change Your StatusCalisto: Available, Busy, Do not disturb, Away or Appear offline, chosen from the sidebar.Checked Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Record and Transcribe CallsCalisto: a call is Live's meeting, recorded and transcribed with its summary (with Live).Checked Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| ShiftsCalisto: the team's schedule, open shifts and swaps (with Workforce).Checked Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 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 Nov 2, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Desktop | ||
| Keyboard ShortcutsCalisto: N new message, U unread, A activity, S saved and / search, listed with ?.Checked Nov 2, 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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