Zulip Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

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Enterprise open-source team chat, on-prem and in the cloud. Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations.


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PhD Student

All in all, we have had a great experience since switching to Zulip. Especially, the organization of messages helps us to stay on top of things in times when there's a lot to handle at the same time.

IT Supervisor

Great Way to communicate with my co-workers from the job, love the small integration it has, its easy to use.

Community member

The chat functionality in the web client is awesome for distributed teams - well, for any team, actually. Splitting in topics, all the formatting options, integration of automation really great.

Professor

I learnt of Zulip because of its use by the Lean community, where it has been superb.

I chose Zulip as an open source solution with a good cloud hosting experience and have very happy.

We really love threading model which is main difference over slack we used before. Recent conversations" and "Public streams" are great features I didn't saw elsewhere.

Team Member

My experience with Zulip is very good. It helps to keep track on discussions and keeps them organized.

Owner

Awesome platform for communication, has been really easy to use for communicating in one of my classes.

For researchers like me, the built in Latex support is a god send, and I really appreciate the threading interface.

Distinguished Professor in Science

It is similar to Slack, but has a better user interface, and its compatibility with LaTeX makes it more friendly for scientific discussions.

Postdoctoral fellow

Being open source is another major advantage, and the community is very supportive.

Customer Desk

Excellent cost-effective solution for team collaboration.

What is currently missing is the easy voice chat that Discord or Slack provide.

President

My only complaint is that some features are available on Web but not on the Android app, for example linking to messages.

Team representative

Chat history, ease of use, folder/sub group system and the ability to share files.

Assistant Professor

For mobile you can only be signed in on one account at a time and it's a little annoying to switch.

My biggest issue is the lack of a scheduled message feature.

Zulip is a full on Slack replacement for a fraction of the cost. I really prefer the topic threading to the freeform nature of Slack as well.

Zulip is fantastic software written by people who clearly use it themselves.

Zulip is great for communicating with students

Our overall experience with Zulip has been amazing. During Covid we were suddenly forced into a situation where teens who had been seeing each other on a regular basis were isolated and we needed a safe reliable way for them to communicate. We started using Zulip at that point, and even when restrictions were lifted have continued to use it - it's a fabulous tool, great for communication, keeping users safe and apart from unwelcome external influences.

Safe and Reliable - Zulip is invaluable

Cool idea, lots left on the table for execution

I love Zulip, it is lightweight and functional and has all the essential features. I would love for it to be easier to organise larger teams, e.g. with documents and/or a clearer and more concise overview of chats and channel data.

Zulip is fantastic, but has some painpoints

Colleagues who were skeptical at first are now convinced by how Zulip is structured regarding threads.

Best chat app for remote and async teams

Our group has had nothing but good experiences with Zulip, and the consistent upgrades and updates make us confident that it's a good long-term product/service for us.

Great Long-term Service 

I am very content with this application. I have organised my team not only in separate projects, but also topics within projects, and stored all the content for unlimited time. Now I have everything in one place which makes life much easier.

Great tool for organizing team work (topics within streams!)

As a business owner, I have used Slack, Guilded, and other tools to communicate with my team, and once we switched to Zulip, we have never looked back. It feels like a glove on the hand - you know its there, but it is not in the way and you can focus on the work at hand.

Excellent Small Business Collaboration Tool

I love Zulip and wish I never had to use Slack or Telegram again.

A breath of fresh air after Slack, Telegram, Discord etc.!

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Zulip is Great!

It is the best chat system. I've used Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord, Google Chat (Hangouts) and many others. Zulip is the best.

Zulip ROCKS!

I followed the documentation (very clear) to get it installed. I had a couple of questions, and I got a fantastic support on Github and by email. I now use Zulip to communicate with other developers while we're building our startup. I love the experience, it seems to be doing everything we need.

Fantastic tool for indie hackers or young startup

Using Zulip has been a delightful experience, and its open source model makes it an even more compelling choice.

Delightful, reliable, open source

It's very good. Our team migrants from Slack to Zulip because Slack will charge a fee. It took something to get used to using Zulip but overall it is very good.

Excellent experience 

Very positive, our little global social group , would not survive without it.

Old men using Zuilp 

We love it, its been great. Would highly recommend for any other not for profit, volunteer run organization, or otherwise!

User friendly tech solution for most communication platform issues

Best collaboration solution out there!

We've tried a few systems over the last few years and this one fits the bill perfectly.  The price was good (free version worked for us) and things like read receipts are particularly useful!

Great for small businesses

Great open-source software for internal commucations

We have moved to Zulip as an alternative to mailing list and mass emailing, so far it seems to work very well, we can have separate channels for different groups and targeted posts, and people can join a stream if they want and keep an eye on postings without the constant barrage of emails. 

very decent chat app

Great. It's the best instant messenger application I've used and preferred within the company

Great instant messenger

Excellent. It has provided a significant boost to my team and some colleagues start adopting it.

Fun experience on Zulip

We've used Zulip for about five years and it has served us well that whole time.

It's a great platform!

An excellent experience, not intrusive, adaptive

A great private community server

Zulip helped us overcome team collaboration & file sharing. Specially since we work with a remote team, Zulip helps us eliminate multiple email threads for simple communication. 

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