CometChat vs Layer: What are the differences?

Developers describe CometChat as "Add voice, video, text chat to your apps and websites". It enables developers to create 100% customized chat applications. Use our sample apps & build what you imagine It enables product managers to add chat with pre-built UI to websites within a few minutes. Use our ready-to-use chat plugin.. On the other hand, Layer is detailed as "Build messaging, voice and video right into your app in minutes". Layer's asynchronous messaging fabric is capable of transporting payloads of any type. Get your users talking with chat, voice or video messaging. Pull them back in with push. Connect friends, colleagues or perfect strangers seamlessly.

CometChat and Layer can be primarily classified as "Communications SDK" tools.

Some of the features offered by CometChat are:

• audio chat
• text chat
• video chat

On the other hand, Layer provides the following key features:

• Send any message payload (photos, videos, location, json data, etc) up to 2GB
• Build your UI quickly with sample UI components to get started
• User-expected communication features work right out of the box (full message state tracking, typing indicators, read receipts)