Free
- All features on this page
- 10,000 messages of search history
- File storage up to 5 GB total
- Full-featured team chat service
- Hundreds of integrations
- Advanced roles and permissions
Online, in-person, and anything in between.
Free for most classes!
Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is ideal for both live and asynchronous conversations. Post lecture notes and announcements, answer students’ questions, and coordinate with teaching staff all in one place.
Zulip has the best user experience of all the chat apps I’ve tried. With the discussion organized by topic within each stream, Zulip is the only app that makes hundreds of conversations manageable.
I used Piazza & Zulip. Piazza lets students ask questions anonymously. Zulip better all-around for chatting, announcements, group work (has built-in LaTeX, as well as threading). Zulip basically replaced email for my class. Easy to pick up if you've used Slack & email before.
— Joshua Grochow (@joshuagrochow) December 7, 2020
Participants across six continents signed up for my graduate-level classes when I decided to open them up to the world during the pandemic. Zulip became a central hub for asynchronous Q&A and posting Zoom links for lectures, whiteboard PDFs, and announcements. Zulip’s topics, and the ability to change the topic of someone else's message, has made it much easier for me to keep things coherent. It’s super easy to discuss technical material using the TeX integration, and spoilers are a great way to answer questions about homework without depriving students of a chance to keep thinking about the problem on their own.
Education (for-profit)
Education (non-profit)
Contact sales@zulip.com to set up a department license for multiple Zulip organizations.
Non-profit discount applies to online purchases only (no additional legal agreements) for use at registered non-profit institutions (e.g. colleges and universities). If this pricing is a burden for any reason, contact sales@zulip.com to request sponsorship.
Learn about using Zulip for conferences and research communities. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us at sales@zulip.com. You can also drop by our friendly development community at chat.zulip.org to ask for help or suggest improvements!
Feature | Zulip | Slack | Discord | Piazza | CampusWire |
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Rich, modern chat | |||||
Apps for every platform | |||||
Self-hosting option for full control over data | |||||
Dedicated account | |||||
Topic-based threading | |||||
Resolve topics/questions | |||||
Move topics/questions | |||||
Native LaTeX support | |||||
Built-in spoilers | |||||
Emoji reactions | |||||
@-mention groups | |||||
Scales to 10,000s of users | |||||
# supported languages | 23 | 13 | 30 | 1 | 1 |