HipChat vs Telegram

Overview

HipChat

Stacks1.2K

Followers892

Votes684

Stacks745

Followers634

Votes51

HipChat vs Telegram : What are the differences?

HipChat: 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; Telegram : A cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service. 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.

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

Some of the features offered by HipChat are:

Desktop apps (Windows, Linux, Mac)
Mobile apps
Web app

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

Simple
Fast
Secure

Heroku, Typeform, and Zillow are some of the popular companies that use HipChat, whereas Telegram is used by Trixlog, B2Beer, and BOOTIQ. HipChat has a broader approval, being mentioned in 308 company stacks & 117 developers stacks; compared to Telegram , which is listed in 15 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

HipChat	Telegram
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.	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.
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	Simple; Fast; Secure; Expressive; Social
Statistics
Stacks 1.2K	Stacks 745
Followers 892	Followers 634
Votes 684	Votes 51
Pros & Cons
Pros 144 Integrates well with a lot of developer tools 96 Developer-friendly 85 Clients for every major platform 70 Mobile-friendly 70 Free unlimited users Cons 1 Purchased by and merged with Slack 1 Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack	Pros 16 Lightweight 8 Free 8 Unlimited history 8 Great bot API 4 Can hide phone number Cons 3 Requires phone number 3 Notification customisation is limited 2 No video call
Integrations
Blossom CopperEgg Crashlytics Bitbucket Bugsnag Get Satisfaction GitHub G Suite Heroku Hipmob	Linux macOS Windows

What are some alternatives to HipChat, Telegram ?

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.

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.