Zulip vs Bitcamp
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.
Bitcamp
This app keeps attendees connected during a college hackathon, providing event schedules, announcements, and personalized notifications. Users can also access a unique QR code for faster check-ins.
- Event announcements
- Full event schedule
- Personalized event notifications
- QR code check-in
- Popular events at a glance
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Stay connected throughout the event with the official Bitcamp app. Bitcamp is the University of Maryland’s premiere college hackathon where top student developers, designers, builders, and thinkers from around the country spend 36 hours collaborating on websites, apps, and hardware projects. Features include… • See announcements and popular events at a glance • Explore the full event schedule • Get notified about your favorite events so you never miss a moment • Check in faster using your unique QR code
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bitcamp at 100% against Zulip's 39%. Bitcamp also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Zulip's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Bitcamp holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Zulip's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bitcamp's.
Zulip ships an update monthly, Bitcamp every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zulip | Bitcamp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (16 ratings) | 4.7 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kandra Labs, Inc. | Bitcamp LLC |
Customer experience
Zulip
Bitcamp
In-app purchases
Zulip
No in-app purchases
Bitcamp
No in-app purchases
