Zulip vs Karakeep App
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.
Karakeep App
Effortlessly save links, notes, and images with automatic AI-powered tagging for quick retrieval. Search through all your saved content, including link contents, at blazing fast speeds. Organize your saved items into custom lists and share content from any app.
- Automatic AI tagging
- Full-text search
- Custom lists
- Sharing extension
- Save links, notes, and images
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Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Content (including link contents) are indexed for blazing fast full text search. Organize you items into custom lists. Sharing extension to hoard items from any other apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Karakeep App at 4.6 against Zulip's 3.7. Karakeep App also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 39%) 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.
Karakeep App holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 43 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Zulip's written reviews are positive against 69% of Karakeep App's.
Zulip ships an update monthly, Karakeep App every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zulip | Karakeep App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (16 ratings) | 4.6 (43 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.3% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kandra Labs, Inc. | Mohamed Bassem |
Customer experience
Zulip
Karakeep App
In-app purchases
Zulip
No in-app purchases
Karakeep App
No in-app purchases
