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Rivers vs HipChat: What are the differences?
What is Rivers? Organize, Collaborate and Do A Lot More. Have more organized and focused conversations with your colleagues, teams and college classmates. Group conversation with Rivers is the next generation of messaging.
What is HipChat? Supercharge team collaboration with group chat and IM. 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.
Rivers and HipChat can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Some of the features offered by Rivers are:
- Real time messaging
- Cross platform
- In-built task management
On the other hand, HipChat provides the following key features:
- Desktop apps (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Mobile apps
- Web app
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Pros of Rivers
Pros of HipChat
- Integrates well with a lot of developer tools144
- Developer-friendly96
- Clients for every major platform85
- Free unlimited users70
- Mobile-friendly70
- Extremely easy to use for non-tech guys40
- Good api integration39
- Irc-like38
- Reliable28
- Feature rich26
- Affordable at $2/user13
- Email notifications6
- Text Messages6
- More developer-friendly than Skype4
- Full text search3
- JIRA integration3
- Integrates with Atlassian products3
- Team Chat Rooms2
- Intergration with all the things1
- gitlab1
- tagia1
- 256-bit SSL encryption to transmit your data1
- Fast1
- On-Premise deployment1
- Trello integration1
- salt1
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Cons of HipChat
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Cons of HipChat
- Purchased by and merged with Slack1
- Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack1
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What is 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.
What is Rivers?
Have more organized and focused conversations with your colleagues, teams and college classmates. Group conversation with Rivers is the next generation of messaging.
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