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Mattermost vs Zulip: What are the differences?
Developers describe Mattermost as "Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative". Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall. On the other hand, Zulip is detailed as "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..
Mattermost and Zulip can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
"Open source" is the top reason why over 54 developers like Mattermost, while over 57 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Zulip.
Mattermost and Zulip are both open source tools. It seems that Mattermost with 15.4K GitHub stars and 3.14K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Zulip with 10.1K GitHub stars and 3.11K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Mattermost has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Zulip, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
Mattermost sports higher performance, uses Postgres, is a pure server side application not using up too much of system resources on the client side, and gives an overall enterprise grade impression in general.
Updates go smooth without a hassle, everything is organised logically, and the integration with the OS is absolutely stable. Apart from that, the underlying runtimes and code are mature, proven and stable.
The developers are maybe a bit more cautious in regard to introducing new features, but they maintain a stable experience, not breaking the codebase in order to hastily implement bells and whistles, which are not yet ready for production. Documentation and debugging are fantastic, so running this in enterprise production environment is absolutely approved of.
Pros of Mattermost
- Open source59
- On-premise deployment40
- Free25
- Built using golang22
- Fast and easy to use20
- Docker image provided for easy setup14
- Full text search14
- Built using react12
- Search and data archiving11
- Supports multiple teams10
- Very professional10
- Keeps us focused, effective, concise8
- Webhooks support7
- Clean and simple look7
- Integration with Gitlab7
- Well documented6
- Use #Hashtags like Twitter6
- Import Slack logs3
- Reactive community and ease of use3
- Secure2
- Self managed data2
- On-premises Deployment2
- Checklists1
- Kanban1
- Slack-compatible integrations1
- On premise installation1
- Markdown support1
- Easy webhook integration1
Pros of Zulip
- Open source62
- Great Community46
- Extensive developer documentation40
- Powered by Python38
- Clean & Smooth UI34
- Full text search26
- Dozens of integrations24
- Threading model22
- On-premise deployment20
- Fully internationalized16
- Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)10
- Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics4
- Runs very well3
- Very Nice2
- Awesome open source alternative to Slack2
- Mobile Push Notification1
- LDAP Integration1
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Cons of Mattermost
- Basic permissions only in enterprise edition1
- Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB1
- Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise1
- Many basic features are enterprise only1
- Less integrations and plugins than slack1
Cons of Zulip
- Integration with most of well known services1
