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RocketChat vs Quill: What are the differences?

What is RocketChat? Open source slack alternative. Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms..

What is Quill? Messaging for groups and teams that stay focused. It is messaging for teams that focus. Designed from the ground up to make you more productive. Everything in Quill is a thread. Focus on a topic, make decisions, and stay in flow. Choose the conversations you care about and safely filter everything else, knowing that you’re not missing out.

RocketChat and Quill belong to "Group Chat & Notifications" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by RocketChat are:

  • BYOS (bring your own server)
  • Multiple Rooms
  • Direct Messages

On the other hand, Quill provides the following key features:

  • Fewer Notifications
  • Instant Guests and Permissions
  • Works with SMS

RocketChat is an open source tool with 26.3K GitHub stars and 5.76K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RocketChat's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about Quill and RocketChat
Stefan Schuchlenz
CEO / CTO at DROOM! · | 5 upvotes · 139.6K views
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We chose RocketChat over other communications suites like Cliq or Slack mainly because we can self-host it on our own infrastructure. Since we have quite some projects going on which demand that we stay in touch with a lot of different stakeholders, pricing was an issue, too. With RocketChat, we have a huge set of features basically for free, RC offers apps for all major devices and systems and overall, we're very happy with it. The only downside is the limited amount of apps and integrations, but we can make due with what we have available.

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Pros of Quill
Pros of RocketChat
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    • 72
      Open source
    • 38
      Can be deployed on premise
    • 32
      Byos (bring your own server)
    • 30
      Faster than Slack
    • 21
      Mobile app for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch
    • 19
      Built using meteor
    • 19
      Desktop client for mac and windows
    • 13
      Easily deployed on Cloud Services (Heroku, etc)
    • 10
      Screen Sharing
    • 9
      Video and audio
    • 9
      Excellent support & service, bar-none
    • 6
      Web client
    • 5
      Amazing product, fast moving development, and BYOS
    • 5
      Multiple Security integrations - LDAP etc
    • 5
      Docker Image for easy setup
    • 5
      Open source
    • 5
      Mobile app for android phone, tablet, and tv stick
    • 4
      Datacontrol
    • 4
      Great development team
    • 4
      Free
    • 2
      Love it - running on R Pi 2
    • 2
      Open source server
    • 1
      Broadcast & Readonly channels
    • 1
      Slack bridge
    • 1
      Linux Client Support
    • 1
      Flexible Integrations
    • 1
      Ldap integration
    • 0
      Threading model

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    Cons of Quill
    Cons of RocketChat
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      • 1
        No full markdown support
      • 1
        Mobile app in Enterprise version only
      • 1
        Many basic features require plugins
      • 1
        Visioconference support is external
      • 1
        No screen recorder
      • 1
        Few options for user customization
      • 1
        Limited message history on SaaS
      • 1
        Poor user customization
      • 1
        Hard to upgrade
      • 1
        Not as well-known as others like it

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      What is Quill?

      It is messaging for teams that focus. Designed from the ground up to make you more productive. Everything in Quill is a thread. Focus on a topic, make decisions, and stay in flow. Choose the conversations you care about and safely filter everything else, knowing that you’re not missing out.

      What is RocketChat?

      Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

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