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Actor vs Zulip: What are the differences?

What is Actor? Open source team messaging application with apps for Android, iOS, and Web. Actor is a platform for instant messaging. Actor provides features like large group chats; unlimited history storage; send/receive documents, photo, and video; authentication with one time password for phone number/email or OAuth2; easy integrations with external services.

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..

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

Actor and Zulip are both open source tools. It seems that Zulip with 10.1K GitHub stars and 3.11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Actor with 3.3K GitHub stars and 764 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Actor
Pros of Zulip
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    • 63
      Open source
    • 47
      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 Actor
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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 Actor?

      Actor is a platform for instant messaging. Actor provides features like large group chats; unlimited history storage; send/receive documents, photo, and video; authentication with one time password for phone number/email or OAuth2; easy integrations with external services.

      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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