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HipChat

HipChat is an instant messaging service designed for companies and teams. Created by Atlassian

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HipChat is an instant messaging service designed for companies and teams. It has persistent chat rooms, one-to-one chat, searchable chat history, file sharing via drag & drop and clipboard, inline image previews, an API, chat over SMS, and more.

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Office & Productivity Social & Communications

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chat-clients chat-rooms corporate-instant-messaging enterprise-social-networking instant-messaging integrated-file-sharing screen-sharing team-collaboration video-chat web-chat

HipChat was added by powdahound in Jun 2010 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2018 There is a history of all activites on HipChat in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on HipChat or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Telegram

Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security. It’s superfast, simple and free. It is like SMS, but more powerful. .

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Skype

An instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services.

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Slack

Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.

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Mattermost

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Viber

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Matrix.org

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Zulip

Zulip is a group chat app. Its most distinctive characteristic is that messages are threaded by topic, helping you have long-running, organized conversations....

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Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.

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Ad-free Chat Bot Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Group chat ... Integrated File Sharing Location Mapping Share your screen Voice messages Add a feature

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- Free and portable. Includes Live Chat for your website. Incredibly fast and lightweight. Doesn't use much CPU. alternativeto1234 • Mar 2017
Glip

Glip is instant messaging for teams and businesses to communicate and get work done at the same time. In Glip you work where your conversations are, so you always know...

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Social feed Bitbucket Integration Box.com integration Built-in File Manager ... Calendar view CRM Dropbox integration GitHub integration Google Drive integration Group chat Group collaboration Mailchimp integration Meeting notes Onedrive integration Real time collaboration Recurring tasks Share your screen Shared calendars Sync Calendars Team Collaboration Team work Trello integration Zapier integration Zendesk integration Add a feature

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- Hipchat focuses on text chat, Glip focuses on project/tasks emuleking • Jul 2015
Gitter

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Flock

Flock is the fastest growing team messenger and loved by over 25,000 companies globally. It also comes with its powerful platform, FlockOS.

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Google Calendar integration Asana integration Bitbucket Integration Channel manager ... Encrypted chat GitHub integration Google Analytics Integration Google Drive integration Group chat Group collaboration IFTTT integration Integrated File Sharing Jira integration Mailchimp integration Share your screen Team Collaboration Team messaging Trello integration Twitter integration Uber integration Video calling Visual Studio integration Voice Call Zapier integration Add a feature

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- More features, better free plan, good mobile app, convenient notifications system. pusher • Apr 2017
- UI UI UI!! Great team in place. They listen to users. Guest • May 2017
YakYak

What does it do: * Send/receive chat messages * Create/change conversations (rename, add people) * Leave/delete conversation * Notifications * ...

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Oinker

Oinker looks like a plain chat program on the surface, but it allows you to save the specified messages (called ‘oinks’ in Oinker) on the spot, and more importantly, it...

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HipChat Comments

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Comment by DanMan

about HipChat · Oct 2016 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

That means you can access it from your favourite IM Jabber program, like Pidgin, too. It only implements a subset of it though (no file transfers - at least in the free version), but for basic use it works.

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