Zulip vs Quae
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zulip
This app provides organized team chat for groups of any size, enabling users to read and respond to messages in context. It helps maintain focus by allowing users to catch up on topics of interest at their own pace. The application is open-source and available as a cloud service or self-hosted solution.
- Organized team chat
- Contextual message reading
- Topic-based conversations
- Focus maintenance
- Open-source software
- Cloud and self-hosted options
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Zulip (https://zulip.com/) helps teams of all sizes be more productive together, from a few friends hacking on a new idea, to globally distributed organizations with hundreds of people tackling the world's hardest problems. Unlike other chat apps, Zulip lets you read and respond to every message in context, no matter when it was sent. Maintain your focus and then catch up on your own time, reading the topics you care about, and skimming or skipping the rest. Like everything Zulip, this official Zulip mobile app is 100% open-source software: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter . Thank you to the hundreds of contributors who have made Zulip what it is! Zulip is available as a managed cloud service or a self-hosted solution. Please send questions, comments, and bug reports to support@zulip.com, or tweet @zulip.
Quae
Create and vote on petitions for your community, school, or workplace. Collaborate with others to voice your concerns and gain the attention of decision-makers. It's a platform for collective action and civic engagement.
- Create petitions
- Vote on proposals
- Community collaboration
- Engage leaders
- Civic action platform
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Quae is a community-driven voting platform that allows you to create petitions about issues in your city, school, or company. Use Quae to work with your peers, vote on proposals, and get the attention of your leaders.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Quae at 100% against Zulip's 39%. Quae also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.7) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Quae holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Zulip's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quae's.
Zulip ships an update monthly, Quae every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zulip | Quae |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (16 ratings) | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kandra Labs, Inc. | Quae, Inc. |
Customer experience
Zulip
Quae
In-app purchases
Zulip
No in-app purchases
Quae
No in-app purchases
