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Actor vs Sameroom: What are the differences?
Actor: Open source team messaging application with apps for Android, iOS, and Web. Actor is a platform for instant messaging. Actor provides features like large group chats; unlimited history storage; send/receive documents, photo, and video; authentication with one time password for phone number/email or OAuth2; easy integrations with external services; Sameroom: Chat interoperability-as-a-service. Sameroom bridges real-time communication systems. Share channels between Slack teams. Bridge a Skype or Hangouts group with a channel on Slack. Connect a team on Slack with a team on HipChat, Gitter. Manage all your customer support queries as a team, from Slack. Respond to Intercom, Twitter, or Skype customer support questions from your team chat.
Actor and Sameroom can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Some of the features offered by Actor are:
- File sharing
- Limitless Groups
- Mobile First
On the other hand, Sameroom provides the following key features:
- Chat interop
- Support for Skype, Slack, HipChat, Gitter, Fleep, IRC, Twitter (DMs and public mentions), Intercom, Flowdock, Campfire, Google Hangouts, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger
- Customer support—respond to tweets, intercom messages, and skype conversations from Slack
Actor is an open source tool with 3.3K GitHub stars and 764 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Actor's open source repository on GitHub.
