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HipChat vs Zulip: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Zulip? Powerful open source team chat. 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..

HipChat and Zulip belong to "Group Chat & Notifications" category of the tech stack.

"Integrates well with a lot of developer tools" is the top reason why over 143 developers like HipChat, while over 57 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Zulip.

Zulip is an open source tool with 9.97K GitHub stars and 3.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Zulip's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, HipChat has a broader approval, being mentioned in 307 company stacks & 114 developers stacks; compared to Zulip, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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