Zulip User Reviews

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Beautiful!

Love the FOSS movement! Great app for organizing, if you’re using this please leave a review if it has helped.

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Cannot open attachment (eg PDF) in the message, otherwise 5 stars.

Feed glitches with multiple images

If I scroll through a feed and more than one image is visible the page jumps up and down like crazy.
Other than that it seems quite good so far.

I want to love it, but there is a deal breaker

I want to love this app... I really do. It looks great and my home server runs with no hiccups at all. It’s solid. However on the iOS app there is no way to enable “hit enter to send”. As I use my ipad most of the time... with a connected keyboard case... this is a MAKE OR BREAK feature. If a Dev sees this and there is an option somewhere, please reply! The other thing I’d like to see (but isn’t a deal breaker) is the ability to turn off the whole “topic” system. I don’t need a bunch of topics or the confusion to my users. We simply need one big group chat (no topics) and the ability to private message one another.
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Doesn’t work notifications

I use the latest zulip server app and there are no notifications even though all toggles are checked

Unusable

I cannot sign into an existing server on this app so it’s just totally unusable. I’m stuck on this sign in loop: enter server url -> username password -> pick account (?) -> repeat

Fantastic chat app, best so far

We just started using Zulip at the company because of the threads feature. Running a self-hosted version. This solution is fantastic because it forces users to use topics so keeps messages organized. If working with remote teams who cannot respond in real time this makes a big difference. The iOS app works well too with mobile notifications and easy filtering to see either all or only new messages or only messages in a specific stream (channel) or topic ( thread). If using any paid chat solution where you pay by user, think again. This is open source, we run it on a $10/month instance with a cloud provider.
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No Linking/ Open in App Features: cant even paste

I am trying to join my server, yet whenever I try to paste in the link, The keyboard keeps gping up and down like a spring.would have been easier if your server link automaitcally gets you to the join the server via app sfter installation.

Needs improvement.

Maybe I’m missing it but I’m not seeing the ability to invite to a server in the app.

On the other hand, the server portion was very easy to install - great documentation and the way you organize threads/topics is really cool. I tried several others before settling on Zulip. Keep up the good work.
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Mobile app needs work- profile picture is sideways

The mobile app is still far from useable. Functional yes but needs some serious UI enhancements.

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! If you'd like to share what UI enhancements you'd like to see, we'd love to hear more: in Zulip at chat.zulip.org, or by email at support@zulipchat.com. We're aware of an issue where some photos are shown sideways, including as profile pictures. Your feedback helps us prioritize work on it. In the meantime, you might find helpful instructions there for how to fix the issue for your own photos: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/8177

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