HipChat vs Keybase Teams Comparison | StackShare

Overview

HipChat

Stacks1.3K

Followers892

Votes684

Keybase Teams

Stacks71

Followers63

Votes47

GitHub Stars9.1K

Forks1.3K

HipChat vs Keybase Teams: What are the differences?

Developers describe HipChat as "Supercharge team collaboration with group chat and IM". 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. On the other hand, Keybase Teams is detailed as "Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices". 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.

HipChat and Keybase Teams can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

Keybase Teams is an open source tool with 5.16K GitHub stars and 541 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Keybase Teams's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, HipChat has a broader approval, being mentioned in 308 company stacks & 116 developers stacks; compared to Keybase Teams, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

Advice on HipChat, Keybase Teams

Remotor

Apr 13, 2020

Decided

Keybase is a powerful and secure team-organizing software. And because Keybase is so transparently good at what it does, Keybase is a foundational software that facilitates the future of work: effective, inclusive, secure Remote Teams.

Keybase is a free, end-to-end encrypted, open-source program with almost limitless flexibility. Each Keybase user or team is a unique cryptographic identity. Each message or interaction that a user has with a team or other user, is verifiable and digitally-signed. Custom combinations of users/teams/bots, can be designed to catalyze Remote Teams of all kinds, this process can also be automated. Keybase includes Git integration for versioning, bots from multiple platforms to facilitate audio/video-conferencing, a Cryptocurrency wallet, and many advanced privacy features to make you more or less traceable.

Services like Slack and Discord are centralized platforms that perform analytics on your behavior and can sell or leak this data to 3rd parties. Any audio/video features available within Slack or Discord, are bound to be less secure and less flexible than excellent alternatives such as Jitsi. Slack and Discord do have a fun, causal feel to them, which can potentially facilitate social engagement in certain conditions (also many users are already on these platforms).

Centralized and Proprietary team platforms such as Discord and Slack have a large market presence (at least in the USA) based on their first-mover advantage, name recognition, and network effects from size. However these products do not have the flexibility or power of Keybase. Keybase excels on its own excellence, and also has an open and active developer community.

Find us on Keybase: @remotorteam (Keybase username) @remotor.public (Public Keybase Team)

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Detailed Comparison

HipChat	Keybase Teams
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.	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.
Desktop apps (Windows, Linux, Mac);Mobile apps;Web app;One-on-one messaging;Persistent group chat;Designed for companies;Chat and file history;SSL security;No server to maintain;Guest access;Integrated audio & video;Self-building buddylist;HTTP API	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 9.1K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 1.3K
Stacks 1.3K	Stacks 71
Followers 892	Followers 63
Votes 684	Votes 47
Pros & Cons
Pros 144 Integrates well with a lot of developer tools 96 Developer-friendly 85 Clients for every major platform 70 Free unlimited users 70 Mobile-friendly Cons 1 Purchased by and merged with Slack 1 Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack	Pros 9 End-to-End encryption 8 Encypted Git repos 7 KBFS 5 Crypto wallet 5 Free
Integrations
Blossom CopperEgg Crashlytics Bitbucket Bugsnag Get Satisfaction GitHub G Suite Heroku Hipmob	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to HipChat, Keybase Teams?

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.

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.

Gitter

Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.

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.

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.