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HipChat vs Sameroom: What are the differences?
Developers describe HipChat as "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. On the other hand, Sameroom is detailed as "Chat interoperability-as-a-service". Sameroom bridges real-time communication systems. Share channels between Slack teams. Bridge a Skype or Hangouts group with a channel on Slack. Connect a team on Slack with a team on HipChat, Gitter. Manage all your customer support queries as a team, from Slack. Respond to Intercom, Twitter, or Skype customer support questions from your team chat.
HipChat and Sameroom can be primarily classified as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Some of the features offered by HipChat are:
- Desktop apps (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Mobile apps
- Web app
On the other hand, Sameroom provides the following key features:
- Chat interop
- Support for Skype, Slack, HipChat, Gitter, Fleep, IRC, Twitter (DMs and public mentions), Intercom, Flowdock, Campfire, Google Hangouts, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger
- Customer support—respond to tweets, intercom messages, and skype conversations from Slack
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
Pros of Sameroom
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Cons of HipChat
- Purchased by and merged with Slack1
- Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack1