Why developers like Gitter

What is Gitter?

Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.

Gitter is a tool in the Group Chat & Notifications category of a tech stack.

Who uses Gitter?

Companies

37 companies reportedly use Gitter in their tech stacks, including Accenture, Appwrite, and GeekyAnts.

Accenture

Appwrite

GeekyAnts

Binary.com

TypeLead

TurkDevOps

Minio

Hazeorid

Troopers

Developers

190 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Gitter.

Thomas Davis

Vishwajeet Vatharkar

Listfy

DollarScript Stack

Kubismus

Famintus Web

dr.linux

General

Runestone Interactive

Gitter Integrations

GitHub, Jenkins, Trello, Travis CI, and PagerDuty are some of the popular tools that integrate with Gitter. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Gitter.

GitHub

Jenkins

Trello

Travis CI

PagerDuty

Sprint.ly

HuBoard

Doorbell.io

Notifiers

Pros of Gitter

Github integration

Free

Markdown support

Markdown

Graceful integration

Project-oriented

MARKDOOOOWN

IRC bridge

Integrates with everything

LaTeX

Apps available for most platforms

Cross-repository issue reference

Github login

IRC support

My new fav'rite thing is on it

Very fast work

Very open

Now open source

Open source

Free unlimited archives

Open access (no invitation needed)

Single account for all communities

Free, open & free hosting

Decisions about Gitter

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Gitter in their tech stack.

StackShare Editors

Apr 24, 2019 | 6 upvotes · 383.8K views

Shared insights

From a StackShare Community member: “We’re about to start a chat group for our open source project (over 5K stars on GitHub) so we can let our community collaborate more closely. The obvious choice would be Slack (k8s and a ton of major projects use it), but we’ve seen Gitter (webpack uses it) for a lot of open source projects, Discord (Vue.js moved to them), and as of late I’m seeing Spectrum more and more often. Does anyone have experience with these or other alternatives? Is it even worth assessing all these options, or should we just go with Slack? Some things that are important to us: free, all the regular integrations (GitHub, Heroku, etc), mobile & desktop apps, and open source is of course a plus."

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Gitter's Features

Know who's seen any message
Edit messages after you've sent them
Full emoji support
Special Lurk Mode
IRC bridge.
Automatically embeds content like Gists, YouTube, pictures of cats and other stuff
Desktop notifications and @mentions.
Infinite chat history stored in the cloud
Will soon be searchable too
Phew, that's a lot and we're building more constantly.
Desktop app for Mac. Windows, iPhone and Android coming soon. Works perfectly in mobile web browsers.

Gitter Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Gitter?

Slack

Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

Discord

Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Riot

Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.

Mattermost

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

See all alternatives

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