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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.
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 Zulip
- Open source65
- Great Community48
- Extensive developer documentation40
- Powered by Python38
- Clean & Smooth UI34
- Full text search26
- Dozens of integrations25
- Threading model25
- On-premise deployment21
- Fully internationalized16
- Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)12
- Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics5
- Awesome open source alternative to Slack3
- Runs very well3
- Very Nice2
- Mobile Push Notification1
- LDAP Integration1
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Cons of HipChat
- Purchased by and merged with Slack1
- Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack1
Cons of Zulip
- Integration with most of well known services1
- The interface require a lot of overhaul0
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