Overview

Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused. Zulip is an organized team chat app for distributed teams of all sizes. The project has 25K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under Apache-2.0.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

Contributing code. Check out our guide for new contributors to get started. We have invested in making Zulip’s code highly readable, thoughtfully tested, and easy to modify. Beyond that, we have written an extraordinary 185K words of documentation for Zulip contributors.
Contributing non-code. Report an issue, translate Zulip into your language, or give us feedback. We’d love to hear from you, whether you’ve been using Zulip for years, or are just trying it out

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, one click deploy.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Replaces

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