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Flowdock vs Friends: What are the differences?
Flowdock: 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; Friends: Like Slack except P2P, offline friendly, and open source. Friends is like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source. We transmit data over secure channels and authenticate messages. It's made by a group of open source developers who are motivated to make a public chat platform that is easy to use but isn't centrally controlled, and where data is owned by its users.
Flowdock and Friends belong to "Group Chat & Notifications" category of the tech stack.
Friends is an open source tool with 3.05K GitHub stars and 356 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Friends's open source repository on GitHub.
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
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