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Actor vs Flowdock: What are the differences?
Developers describe Actor as "Open source team messaging application with apps for Android, iOS, and Web". Actor is a platform for instant messaging. Actor provides features like large group chats; unlimited history storage; send/receive documents, photo, and video; authentication with one time password for phone number/email or OAuth2; easy integrations with external services. On the other hand, Flowdock is detailed as "Flowdock is your team's chat with a shared inbox. Teams using Flowdock react in seconds and never forget anything". Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps.
Actor and Flowdock can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Some of the features offered by Actor are:
- File sharing
- Limitless Groups
- Mobile First
On the other hand, Flowdock provides the following key features:
- Team Inbox
- Group Chat
- 1-On-1 Private Chat
Actor is an open source tool with 3.3K GitHub stars and 764 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Actor's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Actor
Pros of Flowdock
- Threaded chat34
- Simpler integrations than others, team inbox = awesome30
- Great interface18
- Extremely easy to manage multiple conversations17
- Powerful Search and Tagging Architecture15
- Team Inbox15
- Email and RSS integration for apps w no API12
- See what the team is actually working on9
- Comment on anything you see or do5
- Spark conversations around activity3
- Threads and tags make it great2
- Threaded Inbox for Integrations2
- Threaded chat and separate inbox for integrations2
- Free1
