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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.)
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"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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Verified User in Research
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What do you like best about Zulip?

I mainly use Zulip for running academic research collaborations. I have found it to be much better than Slack. In particular, it allows a much more fine-grained organization of content (via topics). The search features are quite powerful. It also has support for LaTeX, which we use quite a bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

The mobile app is usable but could still be improved. For instance, it is not possible to see pending messages in different organizations at a single glance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Organizing research collaborations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zulip?

Zulip is a very helpful tool to manage projects in my team. Organizing the projects with channels/topics is quite intuitive and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

The text search function can potentially be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Zulip helps my team to keep track of projects efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zulip?

It's easy to setup on all devices and easy to control as an administrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

There's nothing to dislike, everything is easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Quick access to all the participants around the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zulip?

- Open source

- Relatively complete features

- Frequent updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

This mobile app probably needs a bit more work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My principlal investigator and I use Zulip for communication related to our research/lab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zulip?

Zulip offers a powerful communication platform at an affordable price point, backed by a responsive and user-friendly open-source software. Its versatility and customizability make it an attractive option for businesses and individuals alike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

While the platform's flexibility allows users to create unique topics, it might require some initial effort to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Communicate very fast, substituting the emails in the work enviroment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zulip?

UI wise the app really stands out. Price point is also really good compared to other similar products. Has an amazing open source community as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

Sometime there is a lag in messages and shows no internet even when the device is connected to internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Team collaboration in text messaging. Zulip helps in interacting with team on various topics and increases productivity by adding multiple plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zulip?

Support for open source communities, research organizations, education groups

Strong organization potential with channels and threads

Excellent search system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

Would like a way to bulk edit topics, after mistakenly combining two threads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Organization of diverse groups across projects

Instant chat reducing email load, improved feedback time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research
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What do you like best about Zulip?

The following features/properties are most positive: 1) It is free for academic use 2) It allows for easy installtion/implementation, yet offers reasonable to good functionality 3) communication is stored Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

We have some trouble using the video chat functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It simplifies communication with my coworkers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Zulip?

One of the best things about Zulip is that it's a free and open source software which is an advantage over the other similar tools that come with freemium model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

Zulip can work on providing more visibility and personalisation to a uer's threads and conversations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In a time where the world is moving towards async communication, Zulip is providing an open source software with all the features for team collaboration over chat, free of cost to all it's users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zulip?

It is a great tool for having communication within the team. It works on cloud platform and a seperate space can be created for each new discussion. It is absolutely free to use and and enterprise support at a low cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zulip?

The mobile platform is quite restricted and with less features would like to see more features to it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The UI is simple to use and can start immediately working on it. It provides options to create topics and arrange them logically, also maintaining the threads efficiently. Sharing option is also quite good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.