Compare · vs Guilded

Guilded is for teams. m3llo is for crews.

m3llo vs Guilded at a glance
m3llo Guilded
Best for Crews up to 100 Esports teams & orgs
Team management No deliberately Yes schedules, brackets
Voice chat Yes neural noise cancel Yes
Screen streaming Yes, 1080p60 Yes
One-tap clips Yes 30s voice clips No
Crew feed / memory Yes No
Open source Yes Apache 2.0 No
Made in Europe Yes Göteborg, SE No US
Best for
Esports orgs

Works for
Competitive teams

Where it shines
Team management

Guilded is Discord with a layer of team-management bolted on. Practice schedules, event planning, bracket coordination, match history, flowcharts, role systems. For an actual competitive team of thirty members with coaches and bracket coordinators, it's genuinely the best option on the market.

For four friends who play Valorant on Tuesday nights, it's overkill that you have to actively ignore to get to the voice chat.

m3llo skips the team-management layer entirely. There's no scrim scheduling, no bracket view, no coach dashboard. Your crew is a few friends, not an organization. If nobody on the roster gets paid, you probably don't need Guilded.

Pick m3llo when
Your crew doesn't have a coach, a roster, or a bracket. You just want to hang out and play, and you want the app to stay out of the way while you do.
FAQ

Common questions, answered straight.

Does m3llo have scrim scheduling or brackets?
No, deliberately. There's no scrim scheduling, no bracket view, and no coach dashboard in m3llo. If your roster has coaches and bracket coordinators, Guilded is genuinely the better pick.
Which is better for a small friend group, m3llo or Guilded?
For a small friend group, m3llo. That's its whole job. Guilded earns its complexity when you're running a competitive org with schedules and brackets. For the four friends who play on Tuesday nights, m3llo stays out of the way.
Is m3llo free like Guilded?
The core of m3llo is free and open source under Apache 2.0. There's an optional paid add-on at around €5 a month, but voice, streaming, chat, and clips are part of the free core.

Sound like your crew?

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