What is Sameroom and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to Sameroom
- 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. ...
- Microsoft Teams
See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations. ...
- HipChat
HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business. ...
- Telegram
Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices. ...
- Mattermost
Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
- RocketChat
Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms. ...
- Gitter
Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations. ...
- Zulip
Zulip is powerful, open source team chat that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations. Zulip allows busy managers and others in meetings all day to participate in their teams chats. ...
Sameroom alternatives & related posts
- Easy to integrate with1.2K
- Excellent interface on multiple platforms876
- Free849
- Mobile friendly694
- People really enjoy using it690
- Great integrations331
- Flexible notification preferences315
- Unlimited users198
- Strong search and data archiving184
- Multi domain switching support155
- Easy to use82
- Beautiful40
- Hubot support27
- Unread/read control22
- Slackbot21
- Permalink for each messages19
- Text snippet with highlighting17
- Quote message easily15
- Per-room notification14
- Awesome integration support13
- IRC gateway12
- Star for each message / attached files12
- Good communication within a team11
- Dropbox Integration11
- Jira Integration10
- Slick, search is great10
- New Relic Integration9
- Great communication tool8
- Asana Integration8
- Combine All Services Quickly8
- Awesomeness7
- This tool understands developers7
- Google Drive Integration7
- XMPP gateway7
- Replaces email6
- Twitter Integration6
- Google Docs Integration6
- BitBucket integration6
- GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback5
- Jenkins Integration5
- Guest and Restricted user control5
- Gathers all my communications in one place4
- Clean UI4
- GitHub integration4
- Excellent multi platform internal communication tool4
- Mention list view4
- Perfect implementation of chat + integrations3
- Android app3
- Visual Studio Integration3
- Easy to start working with3
- Easy3
- Easy to add a reaction3
- Timely while non intrusive3
- Great on-boarding3
- Threaded chat3
- Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams2
- Message Actions2
- Simplicity2
- So much better than email2
- It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC2
- Great Channel Customization2
- Great interface2
- Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations2
- Markdown2
- API1
- Easy remote communication1
- Get less busy1
- Targetprocess integration1
- Better User Experience1
- Multi work-space support1
- Travis CI integration1
- It's the coolest IM ever1
- Dev communication Made Easy1
- Community1
- Integrates with just about everything1
- Great API1
- Very customizable1
- Great Support Team1
- Flexible and Accessible1
- Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock1
- Archive Importing1
- Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT1
- Watch1
- I was 666 star :D1
- Easy to useL0
- Platforms0
- Can be distracting depending on how you use it13
- Requires some management for large teams6
- Limit messages history6
- Too expensive5
- You don't really own your messages5
- Too many notifications by default4
related Slack posts
Sentry has been essential to our development approach. Nobody likes errors or apps that crash. We use Sentry heavily during Node.js and React development. Our developers are able to see error reports, crashes, user's browsers, and more, all in one place. Sentry also seamlessly integrates with Asana, Slack, and GitHub.
Using Screenhero via Slack was getting to be pretty horrible. Video and sound quality was often times pretty bad and worst of all the service just wasn't reliable. We all had high hopes when the acquisition went through but ultimately, the product just didn't live up to expectations. We ended up trying Zoom after I had heard about it from some friends at other companies. We noticed the video/sound quality was better, and more importantly it was super reliable. The Slack integration was awesome (just type /zoom and it starts a call)
You can schedule recurring calls which is helpful. There's a G Suite (Google Calendar) integration which lets you add a Zoom call (w/dial in info + link to web/mobile) with the click of a button.
Meeting recordings (video and audio) are really nice, you get recordings stored in the cloud on the higher tier plans. One of our engineers, Jerome, actually built a cool little Slack integration using the Slack API and Zoom API so that every time a recording is processed, a link gets posted to the "event-recordings" channel. The iOS app is great too!
#WebAndVideoConferencing #videochat
- Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow28
- Mobile friendly23
- Free19
- Great integrations12
- Well-thought Design11
- Channels10
- Easy setup8
- Unlimited users6
- Strong search and data archiving5
- Multi domain switching support4
- Easy to integrate with4
- Same interface on multiple platforms3
- Web interface3
- Great voice quality2
- Confusing UI17
- Bad performance on init and after quite a use12
- Bad Usermanagement10
- No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)6
- Can't see all members in a video meeting6
- Unable to Mute users5
- No Markdown Support5
- You don't really own your messages4
- MIssing public channels4
- Forced WYSIWYG4
- Stubborn, unused friendly3
- Challenging Onboarding3
- No linux support3
- Audio support problems1
related Microsoft Teams posts
Looking for the pros and cons for a tool we can use best for cross-team collaboration (software development). Has anyone compared Google Hangouts Chat with Microsoft Teams? What were the advantages of either??
We use Microsoft Teams as our primary workplace collaboration tool. It enables our team to work remotely and still collaborate on projects - with integration to JIRA and Confluence, the tool enables us to create War Rooms when problems occur and also provides information-sharing capabilities. Replaced HipChat.
- Integrates well with a lot of developer tools144
- Developer-friendly96
- Clients for every major platform85
- Free unlimited users70
- Mobile-friendly70
- Extremely easy to use for non-tech guys40
- Good api integration39
- Irc-like38
- Reliable28
- Feature rich26
- Affordable at $2/user13
- Email notifications6
- Text Messages6
- More developer-friendly than Skype4
- Full text search3
- JIRA integration3
- Integrates with Atlassian products3
- Team Chat Rooms2
- Intergration with all the things1
- gitlab1
- tagia1
- 256-bit SSL encryption to transmit your data1
- Fast1
- On-Premise deployment1
- Trello integration1
- salt1
- Purchased by and merged with Slack1
- Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack1
related HipChat posts
I use Slack because it offers the best experience, even on the free tier (which we're still using). As a comparison, I have had in depth experience with HipChat, Stride, Skype, Google Chat (the new service), Google Hangouts (the old service). For self hosted, Mattermost is open source and claims to support most Slack integrations, but I have not extensively investigated this claim.
We use Microsoft Teams as our primary workplace collaboration tool. It enables our team to work remotely and still collaborate on projects - with integration to JIRA and Confluence, the tool enables us to create War Rooms when problems occur and also provides information-sharing capabilities. Replaced HipChat.
- Lightweight14
- Unlimited history7
- Free7
- Great bot API7
- Media editor3
- Can hide phone number3
- Delete without a trace2
- Great bot1
- Requires phone number3
- Notification customisation is limited3
- No video call2
related Telegram posts
- Open source60
- On-premise deployment41
- Free26
- Built using golang22
- Fast and easy to use21
- Docker image provided for easy setup14
- Full text search14
- Built using react12
- Supports multiple teams11
- Search and data archiving11
- Very professional11
- Keeps us focused, effective, concise8
- Clean and simple look7
- Integration with Gitlab7
- Webhooks support7
- Well documented6
- Use #Hashtags like Twitter6
- Import Slack logs3
- Reactive community and ease of use3
- Self managed data2
- On-premises Deployment2
- Secure2
- Markdown support1
- On premise installation1
- Kanban1
- Checklists1
- Slack-compatible integrations1
- Easy webhook integration1
- Less integrations and plugins than slack2
- Many basic features are enterprise only2
- Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise2
- Basic permissions only in enterprise edition1
- Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB1
related Mattermost posts
I use Slack because it offers the best experience, even on the free tier (which we're still using). As a comparison, I have had in depth experience with HipChat, Stride, Skype, Google Chat (the new service), Google Hangouts (the old service). For self hosted, Mattermost is open source and claims to support most Slack integrations, but I have not extensively investigated this claim.
I use Zulip instead of Slack, Mattermost, or RocketChat because of its first class threading. One week after switching to Gmail (in 2004) I realized I was never (willingly) going to use an unthreaded email product again. I had that same experience the first time I saw Zulip.
Zulip is also fully open-source, with a well-maintained (e.g. 90+% test coverage, fully static python), easily extensible code-base. In many companies, your communication platform (chat or email) is the center of the workplace -- no one asks for a chat integration into their calendar, they ask for a calendar integration into their chat. A fully open-source codebase means you can customize Zulip to your needs, and are never at the whim of a corporate maintainer who can't or won't fix simple bugs, or who will charge you tens of thousands of dollars for making minor customizations.
- Open source72
- Can be deployed on premise38
- Byos (bring your own server)32
- Faster than Slack30
- Mobile app for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch21
- Built using meteor19
- Desktop client for mac and windows19
- Easily deployed on Cloud Services (Heroku, etc)13
- Screen Sharing10
- Video and audio9
- Excellent support & service, bar-none9
- Web client6
- Amazing product, fast moving development, and BYOS5
- Multiple Security integrations - LDAP etc5
- Docker Image for easy setup5
- Open source5
- Mobile app for android phone, tablet, and tv stick5
- Datacontrol4
- Great development team4
- Free4
- Love it - running on R Pi 22
- Open source server2
- Broadcast & Readonly channels1
- Slack bridge1
- Linux Client Support1
- Flexible Integrations1
- Ldap integration1
- Threading model0
- No full markdown support1
- Mobile app in Enterprise version only1
- Many basic features require plugins1
- Visioconference support is external1
- No screen recorder1
- Few options for user customization1
- Limited message history on SaaS1
- Poor user customization1
- Hard to upgrade1
- Not as well-known as others like it1
related RocketChat posts
I use Zulip instead of Slack, Mattermost, or RocketChat because of its first class threading. One week after switching to Gmail (in 2004) I realized I was never (willingly) going to use an unthreaded email product again. I had that same experience the first time I saw Zulip.
Zulip is also fully open-source, with a well-maintained (e.g. 90+% test coverage, fully static python), easily extensible code-base. In many companies, your communication platform (chat or email) is the center of the workplace -- no one asks for a chat integration into their calendar, they ask for a calendar integration into their chat. A fully open-source codebase means you can customize Zulip to your needs, and are never at the whim of a corporate maintainer who can't or won't fix simple bugs, or who will charge you tens of thousands of dollars for making minor customizations.
We need to develop a social media like chat in which users can message each other or create a channel. We are planning to use RocketChat or Mattermost under the hood to develop a custom UI. How do notifications work in that case? Has anyone done it? Or is there any better way to implement it.
Gitter
- Github integration63
- Free55
- Markdown support45
- Markdown19
- Graceful integration17
- Project-oriented16
- MARKDOOOOWN15
- IRC bridge12
- Integrates with everything9
- LaTeX8
- Apps available for most platforms4
- Cross-repository issue reference2
- Github login2
- IRC support1
- My new fav'rite thing is on it1
- Very fast work1
- Very open1
- Now open source1
- Open source1
- Free unlimited archives1
- Open access (no invitation needed)1
- Single account for all communities1
- Free, open & free hosting1
- Sends data to US Gov2
related Gitter posts
Shortly after I joined Algolia as a developer advocate, I knew I wanted to establish a place for the community to congregate and share their projects, questions and advice. There are a ton of platforms out there that can be used to host communities, and they tend to fall into two categories - real-time sync (like chat) and async (like forums). Because the community was already large, I felt that a chat platform like Discord or Gitter might be overwhelming and opted for a forum-like solution instead (which would also create content that's searchable from Google).
I looked at paid, closed-source options like AnswerHub and ForumBee and old-school solutions like phpBB and vBulletin, but none seemed to offer the power, flexibility and developer-friendliness of Discourse. Discourse is open source, written in Rails with Ember.js on the front-end. That made me confident I could modify it to meet our exact needs. Discourse's own forum is very active which made me confident I could get help if I needed it.
It took about a month to get Discourse up-and-running and make authentication tied to algolia.com via the SSO plugin. Adding additional plugins for moderation or look-and-feel customization was fairly straightforward, and I even created a plugin to make the forum content searchable with Algolia. To stay on top of answering questions and moderation, we used the Discourse API to publish new messages into our Slack. All-in-all I would say we were happy with Discourse - the only caveat would be that it's very helpful to have technical knowledge as well as Rails knowledge in order to get the most out of it.
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."
- Open source63
- Great Community47
- Extensive developer documentation40
- Powered by Python38
- Clean & Smooth UI34
- Full text search26
- Dozens of integrations25
- Threading model23
- On-premise deployment21
- Fully internationalized16
- Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)11
- Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics4
- Awesome open source alternative to Slack3
- Runs very well3
- Very Nice2
- LDAP Integration1
- Mobile Push Notification1
- Integration with most of well known services1
- The interface require a lot of overhaul0
related Zulip posts
We use Zulip for group chat at the Recurse Center, both for our team (< 10 people) and for our alumni community (1,300+ people). We tried Slack, but Zulip is way better. Among the many reasons: It has a much better threading model and is open source.
Zulip has easily the best threading model among all the chat applications and I prefer it over Slack, Mattermost, RocketChat, Hipchat, Discord etc. Each and every conversation is a seperate thread and has a topic. This model makes it extremely easier to catch up and participate in conversations. Once you get used to the threading model of Zulip its hard to tolerate threading model like Slack which is really inefficient and time wasting.