Zulip vs Elevate by Longfellow
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.
Elevate by Longfellow
This app connects residents to their building's resources and community. Discover unique amenities and engage with your neighbors. It helps you take full advantage of your property's offerings.
- Connect to building resources
- Engage with community
- Discover property amenities
- Access building information
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Elevate by Longfellow connects you to your building and all of it's unique resources! Get in touch with the community around you and take advantage of all your property has to offer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Elevate by Longfellow at 88% against Zulip's 39%. Elevate by Longfellow 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.
Elevate by Longfellow holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Zulip's written reviews are positive against 88% of Elevate by Longfellow's.
Zulip ships an update monthly, Elevate by Longfellow fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Zulip | Elevate by Longfellow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (16 ratings) | 4.6 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.3% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — 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 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kandra Labs, Inc. | Longfellow |
Customer experience
Zulip
Elevate by Longfellow
In-app purchases
Zulip
No in-app purchases
Elevate by Longfellow
No in-app purchases
