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Let's Chat vs Zulip: What are the differences?

What is Let's Chat? Open source self-hosted chat app for small teams. Let's Chat is a persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It's designed to be easily deployable and fits well with small, intimate teams. It's free (MIT licensed) and ships with killer features such as LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support.

What is Zulip? Powerful open source team chat. 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..

Let's Chat and Zulip can be primarily classified as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider Let's Chat over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Zulip.

Let's Chat and Zulip are both open source tools. It seems that Zulip with 10.1K GitHub stars and 3.11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Let's Chat with 9.17K GitHub stars and 1.46K GitHub forks.

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Pros of Let's Chat
Pros of Zulip
  • 8
    Open source
  • 4
    BYOS
  • 3
    Docker, Vagrant, NodeJS
  • 2
    On-premise deployment
  • 2
    Free
  • 2
    File sharing
  • 1
    XMPP Support
  • 63
    Open source
  • 47
    Great Community
  • 40
    Extensive developer documentation
  • 38
    Powered by Python
  • 34
    Clean & Smooth UI
  • 26
    Full text search
  • 25
    Dozens of integrations
  • 23
    Threading model
  • 21
    On-premise deployment
  • 16
    Fully internationalized
  • 11
    Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
  • 4
    Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics
  • 3
    Awesome open source alternative to Slack
  • 3
    Runs very well
  • 2
    Very Nice
  • 1
    LDAP Integration
  • 1
    Mobile Push Notification

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Cons of Let's Chat
Cons of Zulip
  • 1
    Need a tool like tmux or screen to keep it running
  • 1
    Integration with most of well known services
  • 0
    The interface require a lot of overhaul

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What is Let's Chat?

Let's Chat is a persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It's designed to be easily deployable and fits well with small, intimate teams. It's free (MIT licensed) and ships with killer features such as LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support.

What is 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.

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      What are some alternatives to Let's Chat and Zulip?
      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.
      Mattermost
      Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
      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.
      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.
      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.
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