Gitter vs Openfire

Overview

Gitter

Stacks232

Followers257

Votes277

Openfire

Stacks14

Followers47

Votes0

Gitter vs Openfire: What are the differences?

Developers describe Gitter as "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.. On the other hand, Openfire is detailed as "*An instant messaging and groupchat server *". It is a real time collaboration (RTC) server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). It is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.

Gitter and Openfire 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, Openfire provides the following key features:

Instant messaging
Rock-solid security and performance
Easy to setup

Advice on Gitter, Openfire

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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Detailed Comparison

Gitter	Openfire
Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.	It is a real time collaboration (RTC) server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). It is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
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.	Instant messaging; Rock-solid security and performance; Easy to setup
Statistics
Stacks 232	Stacks 14
Followers 257	Followers 47
Votes 277	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 63 Github integration 55 Free 45 Markdown support 19 Markdown 17 Graceful integration Cons 2 Sends data to US Gov	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Sprint.ly GitHub Trello Travis CI Jenkins	PostgreSQL Node.js Windows Linux IPFS macOS drawio

What are some alternatives to Gitter, Openfire?

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.

Mattermost

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

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.

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.