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Zulip Overview

What is Zulip?

Zulip is an organized team chat application for distributed teams. Zulip’s 100% open-source software is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication Zulip serves startups, and small and mid-sized businesses, as well as communities with up to tens of thousands of members. It’s used by thousands of organizations around the world. Developed as an open-source project since 2015, Zulip is stewarded and financially supported by a values-driven company designed for long-term sustainable development.

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Product Description

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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Year Founded
2016
HQ Location
San Francisco, CA
Twitter
@zulip
2,993 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
16 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Zulip is an open-source team chat application designed for seamless remote and hybrid work. With conversations organized by topic, Zulip is ideal for both live and asynchronous communication. Zulip’s 100% open-source software is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution, and is used by thousands of organizations around the world. Zulip is built by a global community of hundreds of contributors. Learn more about the team behind Zulip at https://zulip.com/team.


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Sébastien L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great for managing communications in our Ultimate Frisbee Association"
We have been using Zulip for two years now at Ultimate Bègles (an Ultimate Frisbee association in Bègles (France) of about 100 members). Zulip has ...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Difficult to start but then easy to use"
Quick and convienient space to keep files, conversations, projects together yet being able to find each seperate, add new project members and sha...
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Loic S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great communication platform"
Channels and conversation threads are very useful for compartmentalizing various conversations. The web/desktop interface is pleasant and intuitive...
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Arani B.
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Assistant Professor
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Zulip?

(1) Very easy to organize discussion using the concept of topics

(2) Good support for Linux-based and Android systems

(3) Easy posting of source code using markdown language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

If you are moving from Slack, the interface takes getting used to Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a large number of users joining in the lab, and then leaving after they graduate or their internships are completed. Zulip allows open communication with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tobias G.
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Associate Professor
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Zulip?

Zulip's threading model allows us to effectively organize conversations by topic while still getting all the benefits of a real-time chat system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

The Zulip android app does not work smoothly when part of two organizations, as switching organizations is slow. Similarly, after receiving a push message, viewing a message sometimes hangs as zulip seems to (unnecessarily?) reload the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zulip enables high-bandwidth and low-latency communication for our developers and users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bruno O.
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Technical Leader
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Zulip?

The way it handles channels and topics, making it really easy to stay in the loop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

Nothing really, I think the tool is incredible and leaps ahead of the competition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Internal communication is done greatly with Zulip, much more than the previous tools we have tried (RocketChat and Slack). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marco I.
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Infrastructure Engineer
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What do you like best about Zulip?

I like how Zulip handles topic and channels, enabling to unsubscribe to topic you're not interested in.

I find that the approach of threads (used by many competitors) might lead to people loosing valuable messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

Zulip takes some time to learn how to use it, but once you get used to it, it's great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Communicating with other team members and with other teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zulip?

This is the best way for our charity to stay in contact t with each other.we can share files (mostly PDF in our case) making it fast and easy to review documents. End to end encryption is also very important to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

The app for iOS doesn't notify quite as efficiently as we would like, but we have found workarounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Able to share files and thought (discussions). Messenger doesn't have a way to share a document that remains in a category to find later. Zulip does. I'm not sure how we would do it without Zulip Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stefan v.
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Senior Research Data Scientist
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What do you like best about Zulip?

Zulip's unique threading structure makes it easy to separate out parts of conversations, and therefore easy to find what you are looking for. Real-time apps can be rather overwhelming, so this feature truly sets Zulip apart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

The mobile app is fairly resource intensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zulip helps us to efficiently coordinate a community of developers, co-authoring a software library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ops Lead
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What do you like best about Zulip?

I love closing threads down! It helps keep everything so clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

It's not super pretty yet - but that's not the most important thing for now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to chat with the team - privately and in groups.

Having public areas.

Opening and closing topics as needed.

Moving topics that don't fit to other threads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Polash .
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IT Specialist
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What do you like best about Zulip?

The best thing I love about Zulip it is Open Source and the thread communication of the apps which keeps me on track of my project works and provide me updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

The UI of android app should be updated although they are working on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

Communication and collaboration with my teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seth H.
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Lead Developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Zulip?

No frills, no AI garbage, just fast, reliable communication with our teams around the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

We have encountered no downsides to using Zulip Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

We replaced our slow, low SNR mailing list with Zulip and couldn't be happier. Teams are more connected, work faster and with fewer conflicts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SB
Associate Professor
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Zulip?

On the academic version of zulip we have the full history of our exchanges, which is invaluable. It serves as a record of research. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

Zulip itself is great, the only downside is that many of us still have to use Slack for other organizations and cannot stop using that since it's out of our hands, so this just means we're using two products which is annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can communicate with my research group easily, and with less redundancy. It's easier to organize than email Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.