Chanty
8.5#10 in team chat appsFrom $36 a yearFree planAndroidiOSWebAPI
VisitChanty vs Zulip
What both publish
| Fact | Chanty | Zulip |
|---|---|---|
| Calls | Chanty supports audio and video calls, screen sharing, up to 1,000 video participants, and up to 49 videos on screen. | One-to-one and group voice or video calls can use providers such as Zoom, Jitsi and BigBlueButton. |
| Channels | Yes | Channels define the audience for conversations and can be public or private. |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Guest access | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | Official integrations include Zapier, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, YouTube, Vimeo, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Trello, Asana, Google Calendar, Jira, and others. | Zulip lists more than 130 native integrations and hundreds more through Zapier and IFTTT. |
| Message history | unlimited | limited |
| Paid from | 3 | 3.5 |
| Security controls | Chanty states that it uses TLS 1.2 or higher, forward secrecy, AES-128-GCM, file-system and file-storage encryption, and application and infrastructure penetration tests. | Self-hosted deployments can run behind firewalls or on air-gapped networks and offer configurable password, session, timeout, log-rotation and API-rate-limit policies. |
Chanty plans
- FreeFree
- Business$36 a year
- EnterprisePriced on request
Zulip plans
- Cloud FreeFree
- Cloud Standard$6.67 a month
- Cloud Plus$10 a month
- Self-hosted FreeFree
- Self-hosted Basic$3.50 a month
- Self-hosted Business$6.67 a month
Pick Chanty if…
Chanty suits small and medium teams that want chat alongside task management and calls. Its range of listed platforms may also help teams whose members use different operating systems.
Pick Zulip if…
Zulip suits teams that want channel-based chat across desktop, mobile, and web platforms. Its cloud and self-hosted options provide different deployment choices.