Zulip vs IMTC Paruthippara
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zulip
This team chat application allows users to read and respond to messages within their original context, helping maintain focus. It supports teams of all sizes, from small groups to large organizations, and is 100% open-source.
- Contextual message reading and responding
- Topic-based organization
- Focus maintenance
- Supports teams of all sizes
- 100% open-source
- Cloud or 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.
IMTC Paruthippara
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Verdict
Zulip and IMTC Paruthippara are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zulip | IMTC Paruthippara |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 39.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kandra Labs, Inc. | Jijo Cherian |
In-app purchases
Zulip
No in-app purchases
IMTC Paruthippara
No in-app purchases
