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Ethan L.

Financial Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Works well but needs polish

Reviewed 5 years ago

Overall, it's a good replacement for Hipchat but I do hear complaining from my team about it frequently.

Pros

Low cost, option to self-host, open-source, active development, generally fast. Cloud option was an easy setup. Overall, it works.

Cons

It needs polish. There are lots of little things that cause friction: they're annoying or confusing. For instance, aliases are case-sensitive (gets my team constantly). Alias completion has a very slight delay which makes it hard to use. I can't set the order of my groups and direct messages on the left pane. The notification options are confusing and difficult to use.

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Dear Ethan, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!

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Oil & Energy, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Simple UI app for effective team communications

Reviewed 3 years ago

Good app for communications with useful features such as selective tagging and color coding of names and mentions. Replies to messages can be made through emojis leading to less clutter and spam massages. Replies can also be made in a thread like manner to any messages leading to very orderly display of messages.

Pros

Selective tagging of teammates inside a particular chat and the option to get notifications only from direct tagged mentions. Replies to messages in thread like manner and emoji replies help in keeping the UI orderly and have less clutter.

Cons

Significant delays in updating of messages leading to improper communications during critical project times. Takes several attempts of refreshing to get the latest messages and mentions.

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Regina F.

Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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A good solution for sending instant messages in the business environment.

Reviewed 3 years ago

Internal communication has improved a lot, both with direct supervision and with other colleagues and sectors

Pros

The ease in sending group or individual messages and the fact that we send messages to other sectors of the Company (through pre-created groups).

Cons

Even in the network environment, it "falls" (more often than a similar solution). But, perhaps it is due to the number of users registered on the network.

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Hello Regina, we're incredibly happy to be part of the improvement in your company's internal communication. About the network environment, it depends on which plan your company's enrolled in - if it's a Self-Managed Enterprise plan, then your server is not hosted on our premises. Thank you so much for your review! We hope you keep rock(et)ing with R.C. :)

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Design, self-employed

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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My experience with Rocket chat

Reviewed 2 years ago

Quick and easy tool for everybody.

Pros

I like it for live chat, making groups or discussions.

Cons

Sometimes its hard to use it on the mobile phone and icons are really small.

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ankush k.

Internet, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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A very good chat software to office use

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

this is the most easiest chatting software i have ever use officially easy to transfer files. overall I am happy with it

Cons

Easy to group chat and file transfer. some additional functional like emoji etc

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Dear Ankush, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!

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Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Rocket.Chat - Best solution for team communication

Reviewed 3 years ago

Excellent experience.

Pros

The open APIs are great, we use a lot with other teamates.

Cons

It's not so easy to implement. It could be more intuitive.

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Rachel G.

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Great messaging app

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

This is a great tool for our small company. Great features like setting up channels.

Cons

Challenges with authentication at times.

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Hi Rachel, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!

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Gerasim S.

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Migrate from Slack

Reviewed 5 years ago

Its kindly and nice alternative to slack

Pros

Free and opensource, faster bug-fix community

Cons

At last turn on on direct, but where is webrtc for private group?

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Dear Gerasim, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!

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sanjay c.

Program Development, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Excellent product

Reviewed 6 years ago

Good.

Pros

Ease of use and flexible chatting option. Really good for programer. Or team management.

Cons

Need to work on UI. As it's not that eye catching.

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Dear Sanjay, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!

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akanksha c.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Delightful Reviews

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

This is a best software for do private chats. Most secure chat app.

Cons

It is best app. I haven't found any problems in this.

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Dear Akanksha, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!

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Rickelle L.

Media Production, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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SOSO

Reviewed 4 years ago

Overall I’d recommend it. I wonder if I can use it outside of business for me and my friends.

Pros

So far Rocket.Chat is pretty good. It’s actually easy to use, everyone can chat at once, it’ll show what messages that has been unread. And what has been place in the chat that day.

Cons

It’s doesn’t really make a loud sound notifying when a direct message is available, other than that it’s fine.

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Hello Rickelle, thank you so much for your feedback. We're always working to make Rocket.Chat as user-friendly as possible! :) And yes, you can use R.C. outside of business - just choose one of our plans (Community/SaaS/Self-hosted) and go for it!

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Jonathan T.

Computer Software, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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A great self hosted Chat App

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

It is self hosted, wich means it runs on your own infrastructure. It is easy to use.

Cons

I have not found any cons. It is a great Software.

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Hello Jonathan, thank you so much for your feedback! We're glad you're enjoying Rocket.Chat :)

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Diego R.

Venture Capital & Private Equity, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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The best custom software for communication hub!

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

I can do everything that i want to do. It is very easy to customize and adapt for your need. They also have good support for your problems and they are very fast to answer you.

Cons

There are few bugs, but it is not in the core business. It happens in some features which is not so important for users.

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Dear Diego, we're thrilled that you have such a good experience with Rocket.Chat! We're always looking for ways to improve our platform. If you have any other suggestions, please let us know. :) Sincerely, Rocket.Chat Team

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Jane C.

Government Administration, 501-1,000 employees

Used other for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend1/10

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Rocket Chat is Clunky and problem prone

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

My previous workplace used RocketChat for internal communication. It was a big upgrade from Spark, which was a very basic and out-dated instant messaging program

Cons

Now that I’ve used Slack I realize how clunky RocketChat was. There were consistent issues with connectivity, loss of message history and several of my coworkers had to uninstall and install the tool each month. Just get Slack.

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Our team is constantly improving the platform to offer our users an amazing team chat platform for internal and external communication. We would love to understand better the problems you are facing, would you be able to detail them and send us on support@rocket.chat? thanks for your feedback!

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Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Useful office chat program

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

It's easy to use and not bad for sharing files.

Cons

The customization of the user account could be a bit more user-friendly

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Dear Rocketeer, Your helpful comment are much appreciated and your feedback will help us to continually improve our platform. Thank you very much!

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Udbhav S.

Research, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Not just a tool, a way more to connect

Reviewed 3 years ago

Overall, experience is good, I recommend to try once

Pros

First time, I heard about this software when we have to organize a virtual conference at a large scale, to connect people across world, is so easy and integration on the other hand works smoothly. Easy to control, no such ads available in between. Can create different channel and groups for specific work place.

Cons

I think it's basic theme, it just so simple, for a new person it's not that catchy or attractive than then the other competitive application available in the market.

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Alejandro A.

Higher Education, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Organize team work

Reviewed 3 years ago

It is a very friendly platform

Pros

The Rocket chat is an easy going platform to maintain contact with your colleagues

Cons

Sometimes it's bug out and the messages or notifications do not respond

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Matthew N.

Hospital & Health Care, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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excellent customization options but lack intuitive layout

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

excellent options for customization that allows for any company to personalize their chat performance.

Cons

the changes that you would want to make are difficult to test beyond trial and error style of changes. it is not obvious which sections apply to which sections when you mess around with the font/color/style/formatting. The update for the rocket chat actually crashed my program on my windows 10 system and i had to downgrade back to an earlier version to get it to work again

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Hi Matthew, have you tried the server version 1.1? We have fixed a few E11 compatibility issues.

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Gustavo Simões B.

Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Good basic chat for the team

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

I like the simplicity and the option of having a mobile app for messages

Cons

It did all the basic things I needed, could have more integrations maybe

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Arun R.

Information Services, 10,001+ employees

Used other for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Rocket Chat Review

Reviewed 5 years ago

Good and is satisfied with its use. And is a very good open source communication tool.

Pros

Friendly designed interface and this tool supports LDAP. Funny and creative emojis that helps in delivering the messages in a more innovative manner.

Cons

At times the applications is slow to respond. When we access the application from the start menu, it does not come up directly, it lies hidden on the bottom right corner silently.

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Hi Arun, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!

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Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Free and good chat alternative

Reviewed 5 years ago

Today this chat has replaced all other way to communicate or share information into the team.

Pros

It is free to use and has now replace all other way to communicate in my projet. All basic feature are available: channel, groups, one to one chat etc...

Cons

Sometime the notification comes with delays, I don't know if this setting is due to Rocket.Chat or my browser/OS.

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Dear, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!

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Computer Software, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Very good Slack alternative

Reviewed 5 years ago

We use free version, as we installed it on our server. Very easy to use

Pros

If you're building your company and don't want to spend money for chat softwares, Rocket is one of the bests ! It's very beautiful and UX is almost the same as Slack or Discord You'll see many features to help you chat with your teams

Cons

Give the installation work to developers, or else you'll have to pay for the cloud version

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Your helpful comment are much appreciated,and your feedback will help us to continually improve our platform. Thank you very much!

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Khoa N.

Government Relations, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Chat Review

Reviewed 4 years ago

I love it!

Pros

I like the simplicity of this app. It is very easy to use and implement, providing real-time communication.

Cons

Does not work with Sharepoint. I have small issues with previewing Amazon.

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Dear Khoa, We're glad to know that you enjoy Rocket.Chat and you have such a positive experience! Feel free to reach us anytime. Sincerely, Rocket.Chat team

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Mike H.

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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A great attempt and open sourcing a chat platform

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

Rocket.chat is open source and you can run it yourself. Their feature list is almost on par with competitors like Slack.

Cons

Setting up your own Rocket.chat can be a headache and could be better to just use free Slack or paid Slack (if you need enterprise control)

Vendor response

Hello Helmick, thank you for your review. Your helpful comments are much appreciated and your feedback will help us to continually improve our platform. Whatever problems you're facing, you can always contact our support team on support@rocket.chat and they'll surely help you. Thank you! Rocket.Chat Team

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Brent P.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Great competitor to Slack and self-hosted freely

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

Polished solution that gave us a quick replacement to Slack. No more 10k message limitation pruning old useful conversation/fixes in a tech setting.

Cons

When the world seems to be using Slack and one room moves to Rocket.Chat, it just means another client/tab to have open. I can't fault them for that... just hoping the rest of the world moves over too. Ha!

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Dear Brent, Thanks for the feedback on your experience with our platform. We sincerely appreciate your insight because it helps us build a better customer experience!