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Flowdock vs Spectrum: 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 Spectrum? A community platform for the future. The community platform for the future.
Flowdock and Spectrum 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, Spectrum provides the following key features:
- Chat
- Slack bot
- Private channels
Spectrum is an open source tool with 7.08K GitHub stars and 618 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spectrum's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Flowdock has a broader approval, being mentioned in 37 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Spectrum, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
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