RocketChat vs Franz Comparison | StackShare

Overview

RocketChat

Stacks372

Followers542

Votes324

GitHub Stars43.8K

Forks12.4K

Franz

Stacks22

Followers19

Votes0

RocketChat vs Franz: What are the differences?

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..

What is Franz? A messaging platform for all. It is a free messaging application that combines chat & messaging services into one application.

RocketChat and Franz can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

Some of the features offered by RocketChat are:

BYOS (bring your own server)
Multiple Rooms
Direct Messages

On the other hand, Franz provides the following key features:

Free with unlimited Services
Desktop Notifications
Dark Mode

RocketChat is an open source tool with 23.8K GitHub stars and 5.12K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RocketChat's open source repository on GitHub.

Advice on RocketChat, Franz

Stefan

CEO / CTO at DROOM! #wirmachenweb #vienna

Feb 10, 2020

Decided

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.

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Detailed Comparison

RocketChat	Franz
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.	It is a free messaging application that combines chat & messaging services into one application.
BYOS (bring your own server);Multiple Rooms;Direct Messages;Private Groups;Public Channels;Desktop Notifications;Mentions;Avatars;Markdown;Emojis;Transcripts / History;I18n - Internationalization	Free with unlimited Services; Desktop Notifications; Dark Mode; Workspaces; Fine grained Notification Control; Multilingual; Cloud Sync; Extensible; Multiple Instances; Service Proxies; Cross Platform Support; Spellchecker Support
Statistics
GitHub Stars 43.8K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 12.4K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 372	Stacks 22
Followers 542	Followers 19
Votes 324	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 72 Open source 38 Can be deployed on premise 32 Byos (bring your own server) 30 Faster than Slack 21 Mobile app for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch Cons 1 Not as well-known as others like it 1 Mobile app in Enterprise version only 1 No full markdown support 1 Hard to upgrade 1 Poor user customization	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Confluence GitHub Amazon S3 GitLab Prometheus Jira Amazon SNS GitHub Enterprise Hubot Docker Cloud	Slack Skype Messenger Platform Trello Telegram Tweetdeck Gmail WhatsApp

What are some alternatives to RocketChat, Franz?

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.

HipChat

HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.

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.

Mattermost

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

Gitter

Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.

Flowdock

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.

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.

Telegram

Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.

Keybase Teams

Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.

Fleep

Leave email behind and manage all conversations with your team, partners and clients in Fleep. If some of them are not Fleep users yet, they will receive all messages as normal emails.