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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.
Pros of HipChat
- Integrates well with a lot of developer tools144
- Developer-friendly96
- Clients for every major platform85
- Free unlimited users70
- Mobile-friendly70
- Extremely easy to use for non-tech guys40
- Good api integration39
- Irc-like38
- Reliable28
- Feature rich26
- Affordable at $2/user13
- Email notifications6
- Text Messages6
- More developer-friendly than Skype4
- Full text search3
- JIRA integration3
- Integrates with Atlassian products3
- Team Chat Rooms2
- Intergration with all the things1
- gitlab1
- tagia1
- 256-bit SSL encryption to transmit your data1
- Fast1
- On-Premise deployment1
- Trello integration1
- salt1
Pros of Telegram
- Lightweight15
- Great bot API8
- Free8
- Unlimited history8
- Can hide phone number4
- Media editor3
- Great bot2
- Delete without a trace2
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Cons of HipChat
- Purchased by and merged with Slack1
- Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack1
Cons of Telegram
- Requires phone number3
- Notification customisation is limited3
- No video call2
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