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Zulip

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Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Zulip topics create a separate space for each discussion, so different conversations will never get in each other's way.

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License model

  • Free PersonalOpen Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • BSD  For help installing contact the developers at [https://chat.zulip.org](https://chat.zulip.org)
  • iPad
  • Self-Hosted  The automated Zulip server installation process supports Ubuntu or Debian system
4.9 / 5 Avg rating (20)
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Properties

  1.  Community-based

Features

  1.  Threaded Conversations
  2.  Team Collaboration
  3.  Support for Hotkeys
  4.  Support for MarkDown
  5.  Syntax Highlighting
  6.  Integrated File Sharing
  7.  Chat Bot
  8.  Encrypted Chat
  9.  GitHub Integration
  10.  Secure Chat
  11.  Instant Messaging
  12.  Third party integrations
  13.  Chat organizer
  14.  Live topics

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Zulip is praised for its powerful threading system that organizes conversations by topic, making it efficient for both synchronous and asynchronous communication. Users appreciate its open-source nature, vibrant community, and flexibility in hosting options, including self-hosting. It's considered an excellent alternative to Slack, particularly for developers and programmers, due to its productive environment and range of features, including bots and extensive integrations.
Michel Tomas
  
Top positive commentDec 1, 2018

The best alternative I've found to Slack after trying Mattermost, Rocket.chat, Riot, Twist. Why? Because:

  • it's totally Open Source without any limitations when on premises
  • the Streams & Topics make it easy to organise information and conversations
  • great way to catch-up on hundreds of missed messages in minutes and check what's really relevant for us
  • vibrant community - you can talk to the project lead every day - and frequent releases
    Also, it's fully cross-platform, can be customized with bots - many already existing or code your own,... I can't recommend enough to give it a try and be surprised like I was!
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hritcu
  
Positive commentMar 26, 2023

I really love the way Zulip organizes conversations into named topics. It relieves a lot of stress to know that even after a vacation or some time working on a different project, I can always quickly and easily catch up on everything that's been going on. No other chat application offers such a great conversation model.

Zulip is also open source and offers both self-hosting and cloud hosting, including free hosting plans for open source and academic projects.

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Hasan Yildiz
  
Positive commentAug 28, 2022

Zulip is a group chat app in which messages are threaded by topic, helping you have long-running, organized conversations.

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Guest
  
Positive commentSep 28, 2021

I like Zulip because of its user friendly interface and suggestive tips for group chats.Since ,I started using Zulip it had became very easy to chat professionally and interactively.

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RemovedUser
  
Positive commentMay 20, 2021

Thia is an amazing thread-based free software. It's easy to use and is really helpful when you have numerous messages because of the threaded architecture.

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strifel
  
Positive commentAug 14, 2020

Opensource, Self-Hostable, EMail Threading System, easy customizability + nice and helping maintainers

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RemovedUser
  
Positive commentApr 11, 2020

The "topics" system associated with the "streams" (saloon) more classic system (that can me found in other softwares like slack or discord) makes it really valuable and efficient. It is in a way equivalent to the "objet" in a mail. It combines the best of asynchrone and synchrone communication.

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What is Zulip?

Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Zulip topics create a separate space for each discussion, so different conversations will never get in each other's way. Teams of all sizes rely on Zulip - Fortune 500 companies, open-source projects, startups, and many others. Zulip is 100% open-source enterprise-grade software, self-hosted or in the cloud.

Zulip can transform how your organization communicates:

  • Leaders can prioritize their time and batch-reply to messages, and thus effectively participate in the chat community.

  • More discussions can be moved from meetings and email to chat.

  • Individual contributors can do focused work instead of paging through GIFs making sure they don’t miss anything important.

  • Remote workers can participate in an equal way to people present in person.

  • Employees don’t need to be glued to their keyboard or phone in order to avoid missing out on important conversations.

-Everyone saves a huge amount of wasted time and attention.

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Zulip information

  • Developed by

    Zulip
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free Personal product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $6 and $7 per month.
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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.9 (20 ratings)
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  • News

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • German
    • Italian
    • Chinese
    • Bulgarian
    • Russian
    • French
    • Finnish
    • Czech
    • Welsh
    • Romanian
    • Hungarian
    • Turkish
    • Indonesian
    • Japanese
    • Spanish
    • Ukrainian
    • Korean

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Our users have written 21 comments and reviews about Zulip, and it has gotten 200 likes

Zulip was added to AlternativeTo by gatamah on Sep 28, 2015 and this page was last updated Sep 6, 2023.