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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.
Pros of Actor
Pros of Zulip
- Open source63
- Great Community47
- Extensive developer documentation40
- Powered by Python38
- Clean & Smooth UI34
- Full text search26
- Dozens of integrations25
- Threading model23
- On-premise deployment21
- Fully internationalized16
- Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)11
- Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics4
- Awesome open source alternative to Slack3
- Runs very well3
- Very Nice2
- LDAP Integration1
- Mobile Push Notification1
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Cons of Actor
Cons of Zulip
- Integration with most of well known services1
- The interface require a lot of overhaul0