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Flowdock vs Zulip: What are the differences?

What is Flowdock? Flowdock is your team's chat with a shared inbox. Teams using Flowdock react in seconds and never forget anything. Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps.

What is Zulip? 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..

Flowdock and Zulip can be primarily classified as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

"Threaded chat" is the primary reason why developers consider Flowdock over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Zulip.

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, Flowdock has a broader approval, being mentioned in 37 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Zulip, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Pros of Flowdock
Pros of Zulip
  • 34
    Threaded chat
  • 30
    Simpler integrations than others, team inbox = awesome
  • 18
    Great interface
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    Extremely easy to manage multiple conversations
  • 15
    Powerful Search and Tagging Architecture
  • 15
    Team Inbox
  • 12
    Email and RSS integration for apps w no API
  • 9
    See what the team is actually working on
  • 5
    Comment on anything you see or do
  • 3
    Spark conversations around activity
  • 2
    Threads and tags make it great
  • 2
    Threaded Inbox for Integrations
  • 2
    Threaded chat and separate inbox for integrations
  • 1
    Free
  • 63
    Open source
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    Great Community
  • 40
    Extensive developer documentation
  • 38
    Powered by Python
  • 34
    Clean & Smooth UI
  • 26
    Full text search
  • 25
    Dozens of integrations
  • 23
    Threading model
  • 21
    On-premise deployment
  • 16
    Fully internationalized
  • 11
    Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
  • 4
    Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics
  • 3
    Awesome open source alternative to Slack
  • 3
    Runs very well
  • 2
    Very Nice
  • 1
    LDAP Integration
  • 1
    Mobile Push Notification

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Cons of Flowdock
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    • 1
      Integration with most of well known services
    • 0
      The interface require a lot of overhaul

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    What is Flowdock?

    Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps.

    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 Flowdock and Zulip?
    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.
    Slack
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