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About Zulip
Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Zulip topics create a separate space for each discussion, so different conversations will never get in each other's way. Teams of all sizes rely on Zulip - Fortune 500 companies, open-source projects, startups, and many others. Zulip is 100% open-source enterprise-grade software, self-hosted or in the cloud.
Zulip pricing
Zulip has a free version and does not offer a free trial. Zulip paid version starts at US$6.67/month.
Starting Price:
US$6.67/month
Free Version:
Yes
Free trial:
No
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Zulip Reviews for UK Users
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Sjur
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 10/03/2023
Zulip one of the best team collaboration tools
Zulip has turned out to be a very nice and friendly tool for team collaboration, as well as for keeping an eye on development (through GitHub integration).
Pros
Ease of setup, ease of use, and integration with other tools and services.
Cons
I would like more flexible integration with GitHub, without much setup. Better and easier IRC integration.
Joshua
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 09/03/2023
Zulip is awesome!
Love it! I use it for my research group, for collaborations both within and outside the group, and for teaching, both for managing course staff and for interacting with students in the class.
Pros
Threading & thread titles like email (unlike Slack or MS Teams). But b/c its focused on just one part of the organization, it helps keep my actual email less cluttered. Built-in support for math in LaTeX is helpful for research. Ability to add guests lets us have collaborators join our group instance but only have access to certain streams (stream : Zulip :: channel : Slack). Privacy features are great to have a mix of discussions.
Cons
Originally I felt like I wanted a more robust feature for keeping track of read/unread messages. But having used it now for several years, turns out I didn't really need that feature and get along just fine without it. Organizing conversations in Zulip works great!
Nivedh
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 26/10/2021
Alternative solution to other expensive software to manage organizational communication
Pros
Zulip is a good software , I liked the chat feature and controls/restrictions we can add for the specific users.
Cons
Not as such , most of the things are good
Miguel
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 14/03/2023
Zulip for a CS department in a University
Our main use of Zulip is to have forums of discussions for each subject and also for collaborating between the faculty members and between students. It's a more lively environment than that of the forum in Moodle.
Pros
It's really nice to have streams (channels) for each subject/research groups/student groups; each stream is self-administered by the teachers or by the students themselves. I also like the organization in Topics inside each stream and the possibility to focus in just one topic. It's handy to be able to direct message with a group of others users. Being a CS department it's handy to have syntax highlighting (as I write this review I discovered code playgrounds!)
Cons
I'd like to have the possibility to use topics inside Direct Messages; it'd be nice to have separate conversations in parallel with some other person(s) having the ability to focus on this or that topic.
Reasons for Choosing Zulip
We had a limited account on Slack and we lost the history after two or three months after reaching some quota. Therefore we considered various alternatives (see below).Switched From
SlackReasons for Switching to Zulip
We voted between all the alternatives and the winner was Zulip. The possibility of using an instance of Zulip hosted in (and maintained by) Zulip was a very important point for us.
Evelien
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 10/03/2023
Much better than email or other chat apps
It has been great. Our team uses it all the time. We can certainly recommend Zulip.
Pros
Zulip is much better than email for our team conversations. It is much more organized and makes it easier to find old but relevant messages. I like the stream/topic way of organizing things. The search history is great and it is convenient that the 'all messages' screen offers a chronological overview of all messages. You can choose who can follow which stream, it has great third-party integrations (Tweets show up quite nicely).
Cons
The app no longer shows badges when there are new messages. The desktop version is great but the app has some small issues (for example if you select on the topic, sometimes the message box disappears).
