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Telegram
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Telegram vs Zulip: What are the differences?

Developers describe Telegram ** as "A cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service". 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. 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..

Telegram and Zulip can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

Zulip is an open source tool with 10.1K GitHub stars and 3.11K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Zulip's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Telegram has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Zulip, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Pros of Telegram
Pros of Zulip
  • 16
    Lightweight
  • 8
    Free
  • 8
    Unlimited history
  • 8
    Great bot API
  • 4
    Can hide phone number
  • 3
    Media editor
  • 2
    Delete without a trace
  • 2
    Great bot
  • 65
    Open source
  • 48
    Great Community
  • 40
    Extensive developer documentation
  • 38
    Powered by Python
  • 34
    Clean & Smooth UI
  • 26
    Full text search
  • 25
    Threading model
  • 25
    Dozens of integrations
  • 21
    On-premise deployment
  • 16
    Fully internationalized
  • 12
    Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
  • 5
    Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics
  • 3
    Runs very well
  • 3
    Awesome open source alternative to Slack
  • 3
    Very Nice
  • 1
    LDAP Integration
  • 1
    Mobile Push Notification

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Cons of Telegram
Cons of Zulip
  • 3
    Requires phone number
  • 3
    Notification customisation is limited
  • 2
    No video call
  • 1
    Integration with most of well known services
  • 0
    The interface require a lot of overhaul

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What is 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.

What is Zulip?

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.

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What are some alternatives to Telegram and Zulip?
WhatsApp
It is a cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media.
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.
Jira
Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.
Trello
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.
G Suite
An integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps. It includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more.
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