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Franz

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Followers540

+ 1

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RocketChat vs Franz: 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 Franz? A messaging platform for all. It is a free messaging application that combines chat & messaging services into one application.

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

Some of the features offered by RocketChat are:

BYOS (bring your own server)
Multiple Rooms
Direct Messages

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

Free with unlimited Services
Desktop Notifications
Dark Mode

RocketChat is an open source tool with 23.8K GitHub stars and 5.12K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RocketChat's open source repository on GitHub.

Decisions about Franz and RocketChat

Stefan Schuchlenz

CEO / CTO at DROOM! · Feb 10, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 140K views

Chose

RocketChat

over

Slack

Zoho Cliq

DROOM! #wirmachenweb #vienna

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 Franz

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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 Franz

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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 Franz?

It is a free messaging application that combines chat & messaging services into one application.

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 Franz and RocketChat?

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.

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.

Mattermost

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

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