--- title: Zulip Reviews meta_title: 'Zulip Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 117 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Zulip works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 117 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Internal Communications url: https://www.g2.com/categories/internal-communications --- # Zulip Reviews **Vendor:** Kandra Labs **Category:** [Business Instant Messaging Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/business-instant-messaging) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 117 ## About 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. ## Zulip Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Zulip's **ease of use** exceptional, benefiting from intuitive conversation organization and user-friendly features. (32 reviews) - Users appreciate the **abundant features** of Zulip, including organized discussions, threading, and seamless communication for collaborative work. (29 reviews) - Users praise Zulip's **excellent organization** of discussions, enhancing clarity and efficiency in communication. (26 reviews) - Users value the **effective communication** provided by Zulip, enhancing collaboration and organization within teams. (22 reviews) - Users find Zulip's **intuitive interface** greatly improves communication and collaboration, making discussions organized and efficient. (16 reviews) - Users value the **intuitive thread organization** in Zulip, enhancing team collaboration and discussion management significantly. (13 reviews) - Daily Use (10 reviews) - User Interface (10 reviews) - Convenience (9 reviews) - Setup Ease (9 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Zulip has a steep **learning curve** , making adoption and usability challenging for new users. (11 reviews) - Users experience **integration issues** with Zulip, facing confusion, unreliable features, and difficulties with onboarding and usage. (7 reviews) - Users find the mobile app **not intuitive** , struggling with navigation and often misposting in the wrong channels. (7 reviews) - Users are frustrated with the **missing features** in Zulip, especially in the Android app and navigation options. (6 reviews) - Users experience **connectivity issues** with Zulip, including lagging messages and unreliable mobile app performance. (4 reviews) - Users face **file sharing issues** with limited attachment sizes and experience bugs affecting notifications and loading times. (4 reviews) - Users experience a **lack of clarity** in posting locations, causing confusion and unintended messages in channels. (4 reviews) - Performance Issues (4 reviews) - Software Glitches (4 reviews) - Complexity (3 reviews) ## Zulip Reviews ### 1. Best value for money option you could find - search no more **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ana H. | Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Zulip does everything useful that Slack does, with a plus: channels / streams can be better organized within topics instead of an endless chronological flow of messages. Great support. Open-source. Clean view, now extends to fit the windows. Just the best app. Search no more. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Nothing to dislike. Bug free. I tried several competitor apps, all of them had limitations. Zulip was the best option, with all Slack features and a plus (organization by topics). Open-source, and free for research organizations. I just wish people were more frequent users. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Team work, asynchronous communication, organization. ### 2. Zulip makes our small university team work smoother **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Zulip changed our way of working drastically. Before we introduced Zulip in this team, communication between me and my (graduate and undergraduate) students was either very unstructured, or resulted in a cluttered email inbox. We use Zulip both for organizing courses and research among the researchers in the team a lot. On top, we use the tool for communicating with the students. The implementation of Zulip in our team went very smooth. Due to its intuitive interface, everyone in the team uses it througout the day; whether it is to organize a meeting, ask a quick question, or keep track of the development of course materials. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** I could not find anything so far that I dislike about Zulip. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Clutter in communication, speed of communication, keeping track of decisions. ### 3. I like Zulip **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** You can write messages with multiple lines easily like sending an email. I can write code, that's amazing I like the "star" messages to see them later **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Nothing. Some of my colleagues said that doesn't like the loading time of the smartphone app. Some features to make Zulip more fun (which I mean that I do not complain about not having these features and you don't need to implement them) Send audio messages (I understand that the storage is not viable) Maybe a fast GUI for making and sending draws, like the old-school messenger (MSN) feature. And that's it, Zulip es great. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sepparate life and work. I always hate using Whats app web for work purposes. messages tracking. It's easier to find old conversations since they topic ordered. Send and share code. ### 4. Happy with the ability to chat privately **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kathryn C. | Drupal/CiviCRM site builder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** I'm using Zulip for a small nonprofit that needs a reasonably secure DM/channels. Our audience is senior women, so a lot of them don't enjoy technology. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** It's separate from our website where we have all of the information about subscribers, so they have to find people in one place and then login separately to the chat. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a Wordpress site with an integrated chat and it was constantly breaking. We needed a more stable platform for direct and group messages. Zulip Standard was provided at no cost, and it works as advertised. ### 5. If you remotely call yourself a tech savvy, you're gonna love it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikos M. | PhD Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Zulip is slick. It keeps you focused. It prevents waterfalls of messages. It has Vim-like shortcuts (<3). It's hands-down the best chat app. Especially, if you are into computer science/math/engineering-related domains. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** It takes a few more brain cells to learn how to use the topics vs streams compared to "easier" apps like Slack, but this is actually what sets it apart from these apps. So, not really an issue here. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** It keeps the team in sync, focused, and frees time for creative work. ### 6. Flawless and functional **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas W. | Full-time Professor, Director of the HPC Center of Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** It has a simple UX/UI, we can write bots and it keeps all our information. We don't have to worry about large attachments nor erase messages because of storage space. It is a permanent log of the activities. It maintains our know-how and history. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Mobile client is not fast enough.That's all. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping memory of what happened! It is fundamental in the two organizations from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba where we are using it: FaMAF and CCAD. ### 7. Intuitive, flexible, customizable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antonio B. | Associate professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Easy to use because intuitive, the chat is organized in simple accessible topics, and on the right you have the list of all conversation in hierarchical form. You can keep documents organized and much more. Add to this it is open source. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** The android app requires some tuning, it is not as simple and intuitive **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instant communication with my team. I don't have to pay for a worst product,e.g., slack ### 8. Experience with Zulip while managing a research lab **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arani B. | Assistant Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **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 **What do you dislike about Zulip?** If you are moving from Slack, the interface takes getting used to **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. ### 9. For our open-source compiler toolchain xDSL zulip has become the main medium of communication **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tobias G. | Associate Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2024 **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 **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. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zulip enables high-bandwidth and low-latency communication for our developers and users. ### 10. Zulip is an unknown gem **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruno O. | Technical Leader, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** The way it handles channels and topics, making it really easy to stay in the loop. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Nothing really, I think the tool is incredible and leaps ahead of the competition. **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). ### 11. Zulip makes communication within rust-lang possible **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marco I. | Infrastructure Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **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. **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! **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicating with other team members and with other teams. ### 12. An awesome business tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mental Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **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. **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. **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 ### 13. Real-time conversations without the noise **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefan v. | Senior Research Data Scientist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** The mobile app is fairly resource intensive. **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. ### 14. Really like using Zulip with the team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sally L. | Ops Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** I love closing threads down! It helps keep everything so clear. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** It's not super pretty yet - but that's not the most important thing for now. **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. ### 15. Best Chat Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Polash . | IT Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** The UI of android app should be updated although they are working on it. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication and collaboration with my teams ### 16. Excellent company, excellent product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Seth H. | Lead Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** No frills, no AI garbage, just fast, reliable communication with our teams around the world **What do you dislike about Zulip?** We have encountered no downsides to using Zulip **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 ### 17. So much happier than with slack **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen B. | Associate Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **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. **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 **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 ### 18. Great platform for open-source projects! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** We have switched this year from Slack to Zulip and have been very happy so far! The greatest assets are 1) Zulip's integration with Github and other platforms. 2) Responsiveness to our bug reports. 3) Ability to make the channels web-public which makes our discussion platform much more accessible. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** The topic interface can be unintuitive, especially because stream notifications are also a topic users can comment on. This leads to users accidentally starting discussions in the notifications box. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication of our community. ### 19. Switched from Slack. Does everything we need and works like a charm. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aron S. | Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Easy transition from Slack. It just works and doesn't cost a bomb for a large team. Use it everyday. All team members onboarded easily and working with it. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Not as fancy an interface as Slack but still quite fast and intuitive. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project organisation and quick communication ### 20. Zulip works for us **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter S. | Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** We used to use Discord for inter group communications in our Optimisation group at Monash University, but then it would be asking us every time to "upgrade" our services etc. We then discovered Zulip and have been very happy. It does everything we need, without annoying advertising, or upgrade "push". It works on all the devices we need, and is easy to install and use. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** It seems to need a Hard Reload quite often. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** It keeps group communications fluid, but recorded and searchable. ### 21. Academic research group communication **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan I. | Professor of Mathematics, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** The LaTeX integration is an indispensible feature. It is easy for us to communicate in technical mathematical language. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Some users get confused at first about the difference between channels and their subordinate topics. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our academic research group can stay in touch with short-term progress. ### 22. A good alterative for Slack **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** The full management to data and markdown editor **What do you dislike about Zulip?** The UI for the software may still need improvments, the default theme it is clear but hard to say very beautiful at current stage. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compare to Slack provided by University, the data and attachement are all under control without worring about deleted by manager. The reason we switched to Zulip is University Slack suddenly changed their policy and we lose the access to data 3 month before. ### 23. Amazing for Math Graduate Community! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deewang B. | Graduate Teaching Fellow, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Apart from the general management of messages, it is incredibly helpful that one can write in-line LaTeX! **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Nothing! I really enjoy the product, as is **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a place for graduate students in mathematics to form community ### 24. Great free open source collaboration platforms **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tal A. | Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** It has everything that other platforms (Slack, Teams) have, but it if free! **What do you dislike about Zulip?** opening and nesting new channels is not always straightforward **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** smooth and modular communication between team members, with full searchable record of all history ### 25. Best communication app, honest and transparent work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier H. | Administratosr, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Open source, easy to use and implement, transparent and best alternative to big tech solutions **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Limited integration but nothing really dramatic **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal communications ### 26. Difficult to start but then easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Quick and convienient space to keep files, conversations, projects together yet being able to find each seperate, add new project members and share them all historical information if needed. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Seems like every feature is thare but not all of them are visible - takes some time to figure them out. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gradually build project knoweledge repository as byproject of commmunications ### 27. A powerful communication app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Zulip is great for communicating with colleagues about various projects while keeping everything organized. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** The mobile app needs a little more work to have feature parity. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a central messaging platform for different projects across the organization, and for different topics in each project. ### 28. Very helpful for running research collaborations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2024 **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. **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. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organizing research collaborations. ### 29. A great tool for team collaboration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** The text search function can potentially be improved. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zulip helps my team to keep track of projects efficiently. ### 30. Excellent platform for team communications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephan H. | TRI Boeing B787, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** It's easy to setup on all devices and easy to control as an administrator. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** There's nothing to dislike, everything is easy to use **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick access to all the participants around the world ### 31. Great open-source alternative to Slack/Team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Zulip?** - Open source - Relatively complete features - Frequent updates **What do you dislike about Zulip?** This mobile app probably needs a bit more work. **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. ### 32. Zulip for communication in a research group **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **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. **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. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicate very fast, substituting the emails in the work enviroment ### 33. Decent chat collaboration app with amazing UI **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **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. **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. **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. ### 34. Incredible organized chat for teams across time zones and teams **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2024 **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 **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Would like a way to bulk edit topics, after mistakenly combining two threads **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 ### 35. Useful communication tool for small research group of about 20 people **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2024 **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 **What do you dislike about Zulip?** We have some trouble using the video chat functionality **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** It simplifies communication with my coworkers. ### 36. A great alternative platform for team collaboration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Zulip can work on providing more visibility and personalisation to a uer's threads and conversations. **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. ### 37. Great platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2023 **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. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** The mobile platform is quite restricted and with less features would like to see more features to it **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. ### 38. Communication with colleagues at ease. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Twinkle R. | Soft Skill Trainer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Zulip made communication better and seamless for my organisation and helped us communicate better across various channels without any hiccups. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** As of now, Zulip has not disappointed me and I have faith that it would continue to do so. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making communication seamless and smooth. ### 39. Zuilp Instant messaging application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ronak A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Zuilp is an open-source application that supports many integrations, Zulip helps to customize your application according to you. It has good community support also because it is open-source. Zulip helps to direct interaction with customers. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** There is no any point of dislike about Zulip. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides amazing support and personal recommendations to use zulip, Its support system is very instant like application functionality. ### 40. Uses of Zulip **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nilesh C. | QA Engineer Level 2, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Zulip is helpful in chat and video conferencing. Jitsi video can be integrated for better video conferencing. It is helpful in sharing screen, chat with friends, Sending Emojis etc. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Zulip is paid app. It is not intended for individual use. For video conferencing Jitsi needs to be integrated which is negative point of Zulip. Need to change the User Interface for more better use. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zulip is helpful in chat and video conferencing. Jitsi video can be integrated for better video conferencing. It is helpful in sharing screen, chat with friends, Sending Emojis etc. ### 41. Let's meet at Zulip **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen K. | Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Zulip?** The Best thing about Zulip is its OpenSource software, As a developer, I fill it is the best thing so that it can grow very fast and work on unique ideas by contributors. Zulip works on Messaging and Conferencing because this is open-source software, and their integration with other apps is impressive. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Currently, Zulip is in the developing phase, but due to opensource contribution, it grows very fast and optimises its platform. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zulip integrates with my scheduling software, It helps me to share data while meeting and remembering the meeting at time. ### 42. Easy to get the hang of **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** TeAva M. | registered nurse, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Zulip?** I love that this app can make communicating easier. You can even use threads. It's like texting and email combined. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Sometimes there are glitches with attaching images, and making messages a thread. This can be frustrating, especially when you are in a rush or things are urgent. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Zulip you can communicate professionally on an app that feels like texting. It's easier, quicker, and more efficient. ### 43. Thanks, I hate it **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** This service really doesn't have any redeeming qualities. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** It's basically dollar store slack with web 1.0 aesthetic **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** It doesn't solve, it creates problems. The interface is confusing, constantly replying to the wrong thread and difficult to move them, and the mobile app is so confusing I don't even try. ### 44. The Greatest Underdog for Team Communication **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kuvam M. | Vice President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** The best thing about Zulip is that it is very simple and straightforward. You can create streams and within streams topics so that you can filter your message with just putting the topic. You never get lost here. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** It is hard to dislike any feature in Zulip. One thing that I do face sometimes is that it has a technical glitch when my network is low. It sends a message multiple times. **Recommendations to others considering Zulip:** Its a great platform for team communication **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to solve the problem of streamlining communication within our organization. Zulip is our go-to space for internal communication and ensured smooth flow of communication ### 45. Zulip as internal IM platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edgard A. | Sr. Technical Lead / Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** I like that it is open source, and that it provides the possibility to self host your zulip server. It is a good open source alternative to slack. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** As an alternative to slack, it lacks integrations from the slack ecosystem, and the client isn't as polished. However, it is still a great open-source, free alternative. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal company IM ### 46. Zulip- The excellent app for daily meetings **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hari P. | Program Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** It's a great tool for communication within the teams . It's great for collegues to saty connected together. The software is free and does not require any money, and you can even host it in your own servers for flexibility. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** There are no dislikes as such, it is difficult to find dislikes in this app. But what i found out is it takes time to get used to this, sometimes it does not show notification for new messages **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy internal communication with sharing files within the organization . we could chat in real time.I have been part of multiple groups on this app to to collaborate on projects. We used it for real time chat. ### 47. Good value **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hariprashath K. | Business Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Real time chatting is best option in development **What do you dislike about Zulip?** User interface is to be modified little easier **Recommendations to others considering Zulip:** it will meet all your requirements **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** User interaction Meeting arrangements ### 48. Using Zulip for daily office meetings **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neeraj Singh C. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Easy and intuitive to use. Easy to navigate and user friendly interface. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** Once a user logs in, it displays a tabular view of topics. Users can click on a topic to view the content. There is no straightforward option to come back to the original tabular view of topics. **Recommendations to others considering Zulip:** I would highly recommend everyone to use Zulip. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** We (as an organization) started using the Zulip during the current pandemic time for quick and easy collaboration between remote teams. It is certainly a faster and better alternative to emails. ### 49. Best communication tool for small and large community **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Best thing is that it is synchronised perfectly among all the member **What do you dislike about Zulip?** It is having ui not as per other tools in market like slack **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving us the gap between members of the team and company ### 50. ZULIP IS THE BEST! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor J. | Administrative Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Zulip?** Zulip has streams with designated topics that is so fun and easy to catch up after a meeting in which I dont experience to other softwares and this is what I like best about Zulip. **What do you dislike about Zulip?** On the downside, if you are self-hosting, Zulip requires a dedicated server (or VM). There are some efforts to make it run in a container but nothing that works really well. **What problems is Zulip solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searching for and chatting with topics. It is fully internationalized. I did not experience any bugs at all . It runs very well and dozens of integrations. 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