Why Zulip? Efficient communication with organized team chat.

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Choosing the right tools for efficient communication can provide a massive productivity boost.

Communication consumes a huge fraction of<br>time in an organization. A<br>recent<br>survey<br>found that knowledge workers spend half of their work day on communication, yet<br>72% of business leaders observe that their team struggles to communicate<br>effectively. The<br>report<br>estimates that businesses lose an average of over $1,000/month for each<br>employee due to ineffective communication.

One of the most impactful ways to improve communication in your organization is<br>choosing tools that enable efficient communication.

We created Zulip to empower teams to collaborate effectively , so that they<br>can accomplish amazing things together. As you’ll learn below, Zulip’s organized<br>team chat app makes communication dramatically more efficient than other popular<br>apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams, which push teams towards chaotic and<br>disruptive communication patterns.

Switching to Zulip is thus one of the best ways to increase the overall<br>productivity of your team .

Zulip is everything Slack is, but it's smarter and more powerful.

— Zulip review in The Register

Zulip’s unique topic-based threading model makes efficient communication possible. Here’s how.

In Zulip, channels determine who gets a message. Each conversation within a<br>channel is labeled with a topic , which keeps everything organized.

You can read Zulip one conversation at a time, seeing each message in context,<br>no matter how many other conversations are going on.

If anything is out of place, it’s easy to move messages, rename and split<br>topics, or even move a topic to a different channel.

We switched to Zulip after trying pretty much every chat app out there. And<br>it’s been amazing. The threading-by-topic system is genius. It keeps every<br>conversation in its lane and makes catching up effortless. We’ve cut down on<br>meeting time and repetitive messaging, which easily saves us hours each week.<br>The async setup means no one feels pressured to respond instantly, but nothing<br>slips through the cracks either.

It’s fast, reliable, and honestly feels like<br>the way team chat should work. Once you’ve used Zulip, other tools just feel<br>outdated.

— Deepak Shukla, Founder and CEO of Pearl Lemon

Zulip makes it easy to follow relevant conversations.

With well-organized chat that shows each message in context, it’s easy to stay<br>informed and connected. Everyone can follow and contribute to discussions that<br>matter to them, without wasting time reading every message, or stressing about<br>missing something important.

Slack’s interface was too slow and clunky, and the more channels you’re in,<br>the harder it is to use. Zulip’s UI makes it easy to access all the information you<br>need.

— Jon Jensen, CTO of End Point Dev software<br>consultancy (case study)

Read each message in context.<br>With each conversation in its own space, you can coordinate multiple projects,<br>hold a virtual standup, and plan the next team social — all in one place. No<br>more scrolling up and down through dozens of messages to track down all parts of<br>a conversation. No more context-switching again and again as you catch up on<br>your chat messages.

Find the conversations that matter to you.<br>Conversations are well-organized and labeled, so you will never again wade<br>through hundreds of messages to avoid missing the few...