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Kaiwa vs Let's Chat: What are the differences?

Developers describe Kaiwa as "A modern and Open Source Web client for XMPP". Inspired by the best and built for XMPP, Kaiwa is a beautiful web-based client for the only standardized chat protocol. Combined with Prosody, one of the best XMPP servers out there, Kaiwa provides an unparalleled XMPP experience, on par with well-known commercial alternatives. On the other hand, Let's Chat is detailed as "Open source self-hosted chat app for small teams". 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.

Kaiwa and Let's Chat can be primarily classified as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

Some of the features offered by Kaiwa are:

  • Message History Syncing
  • Active Chat Syncing
  • Reliable Connections

On the other hand, Let's Chat provides the following key features:

  • BYOS (bring your own server)
  • Persistent messages
  • Multiple rooms

Kaiwa and Let's Chat are both open source tools. Let's Chat with 9.17K GitHub stars and 1.46K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kaiwa with 1.36K GitHub stars and 153 GitHub forks.

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      What is Kaiwa?

      Inspired by the best and built for XMPP, Kaiwa is a beautiful web-based client for the only standardized chat protocol. Combined with Prosody, one of the best XMPP servers out there, Kaiwa provides an unparalleled XMPP experience, on par with well-known commercial alternatives.

      What is 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.

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