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Flowdock vs RocketChat: What are the differences?
What is Flowdock? Flowdock is your team's chat with a shared inbox. Teams using Flowdock react in seconds and never forget anything. Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps.
What is RocketChat? Open source slack alternative. Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms..
Flowdock and RocketChat can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Some of the features offered by Flowdock are:
- Team Inbox
- Group Chat
- 1-On-1 Private Chat
On the other hand, RocketChat provides the following key features:
- BYOS (bring your own server)
- Multiple Rooms
- Direct Messages
"Threaded chat" is the top reason why over 32 developers like Flowdock, while over 65 developers mention "Open source " as the leading cause for choosing RocketChat.
RocketChat is an open source tool with 23.3K GitHub stars and 5K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RocketChat's open source repository on GitHub.
Rocket.Chat, whoGloo, Inc., and SmartProcure are some of the popular companies that use RocketChat, whereas Flowdock is used by Teespring, TED, and Verba. RocketChat has a broader approval, being mentioned in 34 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Flowdock, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Mattermost sports higher performance, uses Postgres, is a pure server side application not using up too much of system resources on the client side, and gives an overall enterprise grade impression in general.
Updates go smooth without a hassle, everything is organised logically, and the integration with the OS is absolutely stable. Apart from that, the underlying runtimes and code are mature, proven and stable.
The developers are maybe a bit more cautious in regard to introducing new features, but they maintain a stable experience, not breaking the codebase in order to hastily implement bells and whistles, which are not yet ready for production. Documentation and debugging are fantastic, so running this in enterprise production environment is absolutely approved of.
We chose RocketChat over other communications suites like Cliq or Slack mainly because we can self-host it on our own infrastructure. Since we have quite some projects going on which demand that we stay in touch with a lot of different stakeholders, pricing was an issue, too. With RocketChat, we have a huge set of features basically for free, RC offers apps for all major devices and systems and overall, we're very happy with it. The only downside is the limited amount of apps and integrations, but we can make due with what we have available.
Pros of Flowdock
- Threaded chat34
- Simpler integrations than others, team inbox = awesome30
- Great interface18
- Extremely easy to manage multiple conversations17
- Powerful Search and Tagging Architecture15
- Team Inbox15
- Email and RSS integration for apps w no API12
- See what the team is actually working on9
- Comment on anything you see or do5
- Spark conversations around activity3
- Threads and tags make it great2
- Threaded Inbox for Integrations2
- Threaded chat and separate inbox for integrations2
- Free1
Pros of RocketChat
- Open source72
- Can be deployed on premise38
- Byos (bring your own server)32
- Faster than Slack30
- Mobile app for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch21
- Built using meteor19
- Desktop client for mac and windows19
- Easily deployed on Cloud Services (Heroku, etc)13
- Screen Sharing10
- Excellent support & service, bar-none9
- Video and audio9
- Web client6
- Mobile app for android phone, tablet, and tv stick5
- Docker Image for easy setup5
- Open source5
- Multiple Security integrations - LDAP etc5
- Amazing product, fast moving development, and BYOS5
- Great development team4
- Free4
- Datacontrol4
- Love it - running on R Pi 22
- Open source server2
- Slack bridge1
- Broadcast & Readonly channels1
- Linux Client Support1
- Flexible Integrations1
- Ldap integration1
- 0
- Threading model0
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Cons of Flowdock
Cons of RocketChat
- No full markdown support1
- Mobile app in Enterprise version only1
- Many basic features require plugins1
- Visioconference support is external1
- No screen recorder1
- Few options for user customization1
- Limited message history on SaaS1
- Poor user customization1
- Hard to upgrade1
- Not as well-known as others like it1
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