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Alternatives to Google Meet

Hangouts, Zoom, Skype, Webex, and GoToMeeting are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Google Meet.
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What is Google Meet and what are its top alternatives?

Google Meet is a video conferencing tool developed by Google, allowing users to have virtual meetings with colleagues or friends. Key features include the ability to schedule and join meetings directly through Google Calendar, share screens, and record meetings for later viewing. The platform also integrates with other Google Workspace apps for seamless collaboration. However, Google Meet has limitations such as a participant limit of 100 for the basic plan, limited customizations, and occasional connectivity issues.

  1. Zoom: Zoom is a popular video conferencing tool known for its high-quality video and audio, virtual backgrounds, and breakout rooms for group discussions. Pros include a large participant limit, ease of use, and cross-platform compatibility. Cons include security concerns and a time limit on free accounts.
  2. Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams offers video conferencing, instant messaging, and file sharing capabilities with integration with other Microsoft Office applications. Pros include seamless collaboration within the Microsoft ecosystem, while cons may include a complex user interface for beginners.
  3. Cisco Webex: Cisco Webex provides video conferencing, webinars, and screen sharing features. Key features include whiteboarding and AI transcription. Pros include high-quality video and audio, while cons may include limited free features compared to competitors.
  4. Skype: Skype is a well-known video calling software that offers instant messaging, video calls, and voice calls. Pros include ease of use and cross-platform compatibility, while cons may include limited features for large group calls.
  5. GoToMeeting: GoToMeeting offers video conferencing and screen sharing with features like drawing tools and meeting recording. Pros include scalable pricing plans and ease of use, while cons may include limited integrations with other apps.
  6. BlueJeans: BlueJeans is a video conferencing platform with features like breakout rooms, recording, and meeting analytics. Pros include high-quality audio and video, while cons may include occasional connectivity issues.
  7. Whereby: Whereby is a simple video conferencing tool that requires no downloads for participants. Pros include ease of use and customization options, while cons may include limited free features compared to other platforms.
  8. Jitsi Meet: Jitsi Meet is an open-source video conferencing tool with features like end-to-end encryption and screen sharing. Pros include security and privacy, while cons may include fewer advanced features compared to commercial options.
  9. Discord: Discord is a messaging platform that also offers video and voice calls for groups. Pros include a focus on community building and integration with gaming, while cons may include limited professional features for business meetings.
  10. BigBlueButton: BigBlueButton is an open-source web conferencing system designed for online learning with features like whiteboard, breakout rooms, and polling. Pros include integration with learning management systems, while cons may include a learning curve for new users.

Top Alternatives to Google Meet

  • Hangouts
    Hangouts

    It is a communication platform which includes messaging, video chat, and VOIP features. ...

  • Zoom
    Zoom

    Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Zoom Rooms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems. ...

  • Skype
    Skype

    Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are. ...

  • Webex
    Webex

    Collaborate with colleagues across your organization, or halfway across the planet. Meet online and share files, information, and expertise. Collaborate from wherever you are with Webex mobile apps for IPhone, iPad, Android, or Blackberry. If you can get online, you can work together. ...

  • GoToMeeting
    GoToMeeting

    It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real time. ...

  • Duo
    Duo

    Duo is a next-generation package manager that blends the best ideas from Component, Browserify and Go to make organizing and writing front-end code quick and painless. ...

  • Microsoft Teams
    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. ...

  • Slack
    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. ...

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Hangouts

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    Zoom

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      Web conferencing made easy
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      Remote control option
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      Draw on screen
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      Very reliable
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      In-meeting chat is pretty good
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      Free
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      Pair programming sessions with shared controls
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      Easy to share meeting links/invites
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      Good Sound Quality
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      Cloud recordings for meetings
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      Great mobile app
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      Virtual backgrounds
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      Recording Feature
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      Other people use it
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      User Friendly actions
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      Reactions (emoticons)
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      Auto reconnecting
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      Chrome extension is great to easily create meetings
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      While sharing screen, you can still see your video
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      Mute all participants at once
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      When ending the videocall, everybody gets kicked
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      Different options for blocking chat
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      Easily share video with audio
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      /zoom on Slack
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      Registration form
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      Meant for business and education
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    CONS OF ZOOM
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      Limited time if you are a basic member
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      Limited Storage
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      Hate how sharing your screen defaults to Full Screen
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      Quality isn't great (Free)
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      No cursor highlight on screenshare.
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      Potential security flaws
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      Onboarding process for new users is not intuitive
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      Virtual background quality isn't good
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      Security
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      Editing can be improved
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      Doesn't handle switching audio sources well
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      The native calendar is buggy
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      Dashboard can be improved
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      Pornographic material displayed
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      Any body can get in it
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      Not many emojis
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      Past chat history is not saved
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      Recording Feature
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      En In reality,the chat in the meet not is excelent,noo
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      Zoom lags a lot

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    Using Screenhero via Slack was getting to be pretty horrible. Video and sound quality was often times pretty bad and worst of all the service just wasn't reliable. We all had high hopes when the acquisition went through but ultimately, the product just didn't live up to expectations. We ended up trying Zoom after I had heard about it from some friends at other companies. We noticed the video/sound quality was better, and more importantly it was super reliable. The Slack integration was awesome (just type /zoom and it starts a call)

    You can schedule recurring calls which is helpful. There's a G Suite (Google Calendar) integration which lets you add a Zoom call (w/dial in info + link to web/mobile) with the click of a button.

    Meeting recordings (video and audio) are really nice, you get recordings stored in the cloud on the higher tier plans. One of our engineers, Jerome, actually built a cool little Slack integration using the Slack API and Zoom API so that every time a recording is processed, a link gets posted to the "event-recordings" channel. The iOS app is great too!

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    We decided to use Python for our backend because it is one of the industry standard languages for data analysis and machine learning. It also has a lot of support due to its large user base.

    • Web Server: We chose Flask because we want to keep our machine learning / data analysis and the web server in the same language. Flask is easy to use and we all have experience with it. Postman will be used for creating and testing APIs due to its convenience.

    • Machine Learning: We decided to go with PyTorch for machine learning since it is one of the most popular libraries. It is also known to have an easier learning curve than other popular libraries such as Tensorflow. This is important because our team lacks ML experience and learning the tool as fast as possible would increase productivity.

    • Data Analysis: Some common Python libraries will be used to analyze our data. These include NumPy, Pandas , and matplotlib. These tools combined will help us learn the properties and characteristics of our data. Jupyter notebook will be used to help organize the data analysis process, and improve the code readability.

    Client side

    • UI: We decided to use React for the UI because it helps organize the data and variables of the application into components, making it very convenient to maintain our dashboard. Since React is one of the most popular front end frameworks right now, there will be a lot of support for it as well as a lot of potential new hires that are familiar with the framework. CSS 3 and HTML5 will be used for the basic styling and structure of the web app, as they are the most widely used front end languages.

    • State Management: We decided to use Redux to manage the state of the application since it works naturally to React. Our team also already has experience working with Redux which gave it a slight edge over the other state management libraries.

    • Data Visualization: We decided to use the React-based library Victory to visualize the data. They have very user friendly documentation on their official website which we find easy to learn from.

    Cache

    • Caching: We decided between Redis and memcached because they are two of the most popular open-source cache engines. We ultimately decided to use Redis to improve our web app performance mainly due to the extra functionalities it provides such as fine-tuning cache contents and durability.

    Database

    • Database: We decided to use a NoSQL database over a relational database because of its flexibility from not having a predefined schema. The user behavior analytics has to be flexible since the data we plan to store may change frequently. We decided on MongoDB because it is lightweight and we can easily host the database with MongoDB Atlas . Everyone on our team also has experience working with MongoDB.

    Infrastructure

    • Deployment: We decided to use Heroku over AWS, Azure, Google Cloud because it is free. Although there are advantages to the other cloud services, Heroku makes the most sense to our team because our primary goal is to build an MVP.

    Other Tools

    • Communication Slack will be used as the primary source of communication. It provides all the features needed for basic discussions. In terms of more interactive meetings, Zoom will be used for its video calls and screen sharing capabilities.

    • Source Control The project will be stored on GitHub and all code changes will be done though pull requests. This will help us keep the codebase clean and make it easy to revert changes when we need to.

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    Skype logo

    Skype

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      Low cost international calling
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      Good for international calls
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      Best call quality anywhere, generally
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      Beautiful emojis
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      Chat bots
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      Translator
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      Skype for business integration with Outlook
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      United kingdom
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      Not the Best, but get the job done
    CONS OF SKYPE
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      Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare
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      Not always reliable
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      Outdated UI
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      Birthday notifications are annoying
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      The worst indicator noises of any app ever
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      Finding/adding people isn't easy

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    Uploadcare is mostly remote team and we're using video conferencing all the time both for internal team meetings and for external sales, support, interview, etc. calls. I think we've tried every solution there is on the market before we've decided to stop with Zoom.

    Tools just plainly don't work (Skype), are painful to install for external participants (Webex and other "enterprise" solutions) can't properly handle 10+ participants calls (Google Hangouts Chat).

    Zoom just works. It has all required features and even handles bad connections very graciously. One of the best tool decisions we've ever made :)

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    Mark Nelissen

    I use Slack because it offers the best experience, even on the free tier (which we're still using). As a comparison, I have had in depth experience with HipChat, Stride, Skype, Google Chat (the new service), Google Hangouts (the old service). For self hosted, Mattermost is open source and claims to support most Slack integrations, but I have not extensively investigated this claim.

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    Webex logo

    Webex

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    CONS OF WEBEX
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      Horrible voice quality, voice gaps, drops

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    Dmitry Mukhin

    Uploadcare is mostly remote team and we're using video conferencing all the time both for internal team meetings and for external sales, support, interview, etc. calls. I think we've tried every solution there is on the market before we've decided to stop with Zoom.

    Tools just plainly don't work (Skype), are painful to install for external participants (Webex and other "enterprise" solutions) can't properly handle 10+ participants calls (Google Hangouts Chat).

    Zoom just works. It has all required features and even handles bad connections very graciously. One of the best tool decisions we've ever made :)

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    GoToMeeting logo

    GoToMeeting

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    PROS OF GOTOMEETING
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      More control over participant’s webcams and chat
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      Lock the meeting room
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      Display 25 camera at a time
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      Duo

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        Microsoft Teams

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        PROS OF MICROSOFT TEAMS
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          Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow
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          Mobile friendly
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          Free
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          Great integrations
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          Well-thought Design
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          Channels
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          Easy setup
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          Unlimited users
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          Strong search and data archiving
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          Easy to integrate with
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          Multi domain switching support
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          Web interface
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          Same interface on multiple platforms
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          Great voice quality
        CONS OF MICROSOFT TEAMS
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          Confusing UI
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          Bad performance on init and after quite a use
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          Bad Usermanagement
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          No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)
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          Can't see all members in a video meeting
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          Unable to Mute users
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          No Markdown Support
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          You don't really own your messages
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          MIssing public channels
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          Forced WYSIWYG
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          Stubborn, unused friendly
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          Challenging Onboarding
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          No linux support
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          Audio support problems

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        Slack

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          Excellent interface on multiple platforms
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          Free
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          Mobile friendly
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          People really enjoy using it
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          Great integrations
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          Flexible notification preferences
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          Unlimited users
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          Strong search and data archiving
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          Multi domain switching support
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          Easy to use
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          Beautiful
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          Hubot support
        • 22
          Unread/read control
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          Slackbot
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          Permalink for each messages
        • 17
          Text snippet with highlighting
        • 15
          Quote message easily
        • 14
          Per-room notification
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          Awesome integration support
        • 12
          Star for each message / attached files
        • 12
          IRC gateway
        • 11
          Good communication within a team
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          Dropbox Integration
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          Slick, search is great
        • 10
          Jira Integration
        • 9
          New Relic Integration
        • 8
          Great communication tool
        • 8
          Combine All Services Quickly
        • 8
          Asana Integration
        • 7
          This tool understands developers
        • 7
          XMPP gateway
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          Google Drive Integration
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          Awesomeness
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          Replaces email
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          Twitter Integration
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          Google Docs Integration
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          BitBucket integration
        • 5
          Jenkins Integration
        • 5
          GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback
        • 5
          Guest and Restricted user control
        • 4
          Clean UI
        • 4
          Excellent multi platform internal communication tool
        • 4
          GitHub integration
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          Mention list view
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          Gathers all my communications in one place
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          Perfect implementation of chat + integrations
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          Easy
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          Easy to add a reaction
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          Timely while non intrusive
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          Great on-boarding
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          Threaded chat
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          Visual Studio Integration
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          Easy to start working with
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          Android app
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          Simplicity
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          Message Actions
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          It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC
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          So much better than email
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          Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
        • 2
          Great interface
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          Great Channel Customization
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          Markdown
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          Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations
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          Great Support Team
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          Watch
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          Multi work-space support
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          Flexible and Accessible
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          Better User Experience
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          Archive Importing
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          Travis CI integration
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          It's the coolest IM ever
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          Community
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          Great API
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          Easy remote communication
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          Get less busy
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          API
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          Zapier integration
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          Targetprocess integration
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          Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock
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          Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT
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          I was 666 star :D
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          Dev communication Made Easy
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          Integrates with just about everything
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          Very customizable
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          Platforms
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          Easy to useL
        CONS OF SLACK
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          Can be distracting depending on how you use it
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          Requires some management for large teams
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          Limit messages history
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          Too expensive
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          You don't really own your messages
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          Too many notifications by default

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