Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Friends

Stacks4

Followers14

+ 1

Votes0

Mattermost

Stacks486

Followers579

+ 1

Votes302

Add tool

Friends vs Mattermost: What are the differences?

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; Mattermost: Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative. Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

Friends and Mattermost can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

Friends and Mattermost are both open source tools. Mattermost with 15.4K GitHub stars and 3.14K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Friends with 3.05K GitHub stars and 356 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Friends and Mattermost

Christopher Semmler

CEO at Leonis Holding · Feb 8, 2021 | 3 upvotes · 45.1K views

Chose

over

(

)

Mattermost sports higher performance, uses Postgres, is a pure server side application not using up too much of system resources on the client side, and gives an overall enterprise grade impression in general.

Updates go smooth without a hassle, everything is organised logically, and the integration with the OS is absolutely stable. Apart from that, the underlying runtimes and code are mature, proven and stable.

The developers are maybe a bit more cautious in regard to introducing new features, but they maintain a stable experience, not breaking the codebase in order to hastily implement bells and whistles, which are not yet ready for production. Documentation and debugging are fantastic, so running this in enterprise production environment is absolutely approved of.

Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities

Learn More

Pros of Friends

Pros of Mattermost

Be the first to leave a pro

60
Open source
41
On-premise deployment
26
Free
22
Built using golang
21
Fast and easy to use
14
Docker image provided for easy setup
14
Full text search
12
Built using react
11
Supports multiple teams
11
Search and data archiving
11
Very professional
8
Keeps us focused, effective, concise
7
Clean and simple look
7
Integration with Gitlab
7
Webhooks support
6
Well documented
6
Use #Hashtags like Twitter
3
Import Slack logs
3
Reactive community and ease of use
2
Self managed data
2
On-premises Deployment
2
Secure
1
Markdown support
1
On premise installation
1
Kanban
1
Checklists
1
Slack-compatible integrations
1
Easy webhook integration

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of Friends

Cons of Mattermost

Be the first to leave a con

2
Less integrations and plugins than slack
2
Many basic features are enterprise only
2
Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise
1
Basic permissions only in enterprise edition
1
Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB

Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

- No public GitHub repository available -

What is Friends?

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.

What is Mattermost?

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

What companies use Friends?

What companies use Mattermost?

GPShelf

Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities

Learn More

Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

What tools integrate with Friends?

What tools integrate with Mattermost?

Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

What are some alternatives to Friends and Mattermost?

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.

Jira

Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.

Trello

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

G Suite

An integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps. It includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more.

Confluence

Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

See all alternatives

Friends vs Mattermost

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Pros of Friends

Pros of Mattermost

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of Friends

Cons of Mattermost

Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

What is Friends?

What is Mattermost?

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

What companies use Friends?

What companies use Mattermost?

Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

What tools integrate with Friends?

What tools integrate with Mattermost?

Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

Related Comparisons

Trending Comparisons

Top Comparisons