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Ripcord vs RocketChat: What are the differences?

Ripcord: A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack. A desktop chat client for group-centric services like Slack and Discord. It provides a traditional compact desktop interface designed for power users; 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..

Ripcord and RocketChat can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

Some of the features offered by Ripcord are:

  • Custom bookmark lists
  • Customizable fonts, colors, and sizes
  • Variable DPI and multi-monitor support

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

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

RocketChat is an open source tool with 23.3K GitHub stars and 5.01K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RocketChat's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about Ripcord and RocketChat
Stefan Schuchlenz

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 Ripcord
Pros of RocketChat
  • 1
    Light mode, Dark mode, Green mode, Pink mode, TSTL
  • 1
    Antiquated user interface (this can be a pro or a con)
  • 1
    Free
  • 1
    Low CPU and memory usage, Zero GPU usage
  • 1
    Small resource footprint
  • 1
    Traditional and compact
  • 1
    Customizable fonts, colors, and sizes
  • 1
    Multiple accounts
  • 1
    Tabs
  • 1
    Optimized for power users
  • 1
    Works with both Discord and Slack
  • 72
    Open source
  • 38
    Can be deployed on premise
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    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 Ripcord
Cons of RocketChat
  • 1
    Antiquated user interface (this can be a pro or a con)
  • 1
    Little confusing for newbies
  • 1
    Illegal according to the Policy of Discord
  • 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
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    Limited message history on SaaS
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    Poor user customization
  • 1
    Hard to upgrade
  • 1
    Not as well-known as others like it

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What is Ripcord?

A desktop chat client for group-centric services like Slack and Discord. It provides a traditional compact desktop interface designed for power users.

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.

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    What are some alternatives to Ripcord and RocketChat?
    Discord
    Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.
    Slack
    Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
    Microsoft Teams
    See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.
    HipChat
    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.
    Telegram
    Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.
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