Gitter vs Mattermost Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Gitter

Stacks232

Followers257

Votes277

Mattermost

Stacks488

Followers582

Votes302

Gitter vs Mattermost: What are the differences?

Gitter: Messaging for people who make software. Integrated with your team, projects and your code. Free chat rooms for your public repositories A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.; Mattermost: Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative. Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

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

Some of the features offered by Gitter are:

Know who's seen any message
Edit messages after you've sent them
Full emoji support

On the other hand, Mattermost provides the following key features:

All your team communication in one place, searchable and accessible anywhere
Slack-compatible, not Slack-limited. Imports Slack channels, users and themes. Offers Slack-compatible webhooks and integrations including Hubot, Jenkins, GitLab and others
Self-host ready with System Console and IT admin tools for managing dozens of team sites. Installs with Linux binary, plus Docker, Heroku, AWS, Azure and Cloud Foundry options

"Github integration" is the primary reason why developers consider Gitter over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Mattermost.

Mattermost is an open source tool with 14.9K GitHub stars and 3.04K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mattermost's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Gitter has a broader approval, being mentioned in 25 company stacks & 41 developers stacks; compared to Mattermost, which is listed in 38 company stacks and 24 developer stacks.

Advice on Gitter, Mattermost

StackShare

Apr 24, 2019

Needs adviceon

Gitter

Discord

Spectrum

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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Comments

Christopher

CEO at TheBig3

Feb 8, 2021

Decided

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.

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Detailed Comparison

Gitter	Mattermost
Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.	Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
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.	All your team communication in one place, searchable and accessible anywhere; Slack-compatible, not Slack-limited. Imports Slack channels, users and themes. Offers Slack-compatible webhooks and integrations including Hubot, Jenkins, GitLab and others; Self-host ready with System Console and IT admin tools for managing dozens of team sites. Installs with Linux binary, plus Docker, Heroku, AWS, Azure and Cloud Foundry options
Statistics
Stacks 232	Stacks 488
Followers 257	Followers 582
Votes 277	Votes 302
Pros & Cons
Pros 63 Github integration 55 Free 45 Markdown support 19 Markdown 17 Graceful integration Cons 2 Sends data to US Gov	Pros 60 Open source 41 On-premise deployment 26 Free 22 Built using golang 21 Fast and easy to use Cons 2 Less integrations and plugins than slack 2 Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise 2 Many basic features are enterprise only 1 Basic permissions only in enterprise edition 1 Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB
Integrations
Sprint.ly GitHub Trello Travis CI Jenkins	AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon EC2 Segment Jenkins GitLab Microsoft Azure Google Compute Engine Hubot Cloud Foundry Amazon SES

What are some alternatives to Gitter, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Flowdock

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.

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.

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.

Keybase Teams

Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.

Fleep

Leave email behind and manage all conversations with your team, partners and clients in Fleep. If some of them are not Fleep users yet, they will receive all messages as normal emails.

Let's Chat

Let's Chat is a persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It's designed to be easily deployable and fits well with small, intimate teams. It's free (MIT licensed) and ships with killer features such as LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support.