Kaiwa vs Microsoft Teams vs Slack

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Kaiwa

3
11
+ 1
0
Microsoft Teams

2.3K
1.6K
+ 1
138
Slack

117.7K
94.4K
+ 1
6K
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Pros of Kaiwa
Pros of Microsoft Teams
Pros of Slack
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    • 28
      Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow
    • 23
      Mobile friendly
    • 19
      Free
    • 12
      Great integrations
    • 11
      Well-thought Design
    • 10
      Channels
    • 8
      Easy setup
    • 6
      Unlimited users
    • 5
      Strong search and data archiving
    • 4
      Multi domain switching support
    • 4
      Easy to integrate with
    • 3
      Same interface on multiple platforms
    • 3
      Web interface
    • 2
      Great voice quality
    • 1.2K
      Easy to integrate with
    • 876
      Excellent interface on multiple platforms
    • 849
      Free
    • 694
      Mobile friendly
    • 690
      People really enjoy using it
    • 331
      Great integrations
    • 315
      Flexible notification preferences
    • 198
      Unlimited users
    • 184
      Strong search and data archiving
    • 155
      Multi domain switching support
    • 82
      Easy to use
    • 40
      Beautiful
    • 27
      Hubot support
    • 22
      Unread/read control
    • 21
      Slackbot
    • 19
      Permalink for each messages
    • 17
      Text snippet with highlighting
    • 15
      Quote message easily
    • 14
      Per-room notification
    • 13
      Awesome integration support
    • 12
      IRC gateway
    • 12
      Star for each message / attached files
    • 11
      Good communication within a team
    • 11
      Dropbox Integration
    • 10
      Jira Integration
    • 10
      Slick, search is great
    • 9
      New Relic Integration
    • 8
      Great communication tool
    • 8
      Asana Integration
    • 8
      Combine All Services Quickly
    • 7
      Awesomeness
    • 7
      This tool understands developers
    • 7
      Google Drive Integration
    • 7
      XMPP gateway
    • 6
      Replaces email
    • 6
      Twitter Integration
    • 6
      Google Docs Integration
    • 6
      BitBucket integration
    • 5
      GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback
    • 5
      Jenkins Integration
    • 5
      Guest and Restricted user control
    • 4
      Gathers all my communications in one place
    • 4
      Clean UI
    • 4
      GitHub integration
    • 4
      Excellent multi platform internal communication tool
    • 4
      Mention list view
    • 3
      Perfect implementation of chat + integrations
    • 3
      Android app
    • 3
      Visual Studio Integration
    • 3
      Easy to start working with
    • 3
      Easy
    • 3
      Easy to add a reaction
    • 3
      Timely while non intrusive
    • 3
      Great on-boarding
    • 3
      Threaded chat
    • 2
      Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
    • 2
      Message Actions
    • 2
      Simplicity
    • 2
      So much better than email
    • 2
      It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC
    • 2
      Great Channel Customization
    • 2
      Great interface
    • 2
      Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations
    • 2
      Markdown
    • 1
      API
    • 1
      Easy remote communication
    • 1
      Get less busy
    • 1
      Targetprocess integration
    • 1
      Better User Experience
    • 1
      Multi work-space support
    • 1
      Travis CI integration
    • 1
      It's the coolest IM ever
    • 1
      Dev communication Made Easy
    • 1
      Community
    • 1
      Integrates with just about everything
    • 1
      Great API
    • 1
      Very customizable
    • 1
      Great Support Team
    • 1
      Flexible and Accessible
    • 1
      Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock
    • 1
      Archive Importing
    • 1
      Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT
    • 1
      Watch
    • 1
      I was 666 star :D
    • 0
      Easy to useL
    • 0
      Platforms

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    Cons of Kaiwa
    Cons of Microsoft Teams
    Cons of Slack
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      • 17
        Confusing UI
      • 12
        Bad performance on init and after quite a use
      • 10
        Bad Usermanagement
      • 6
        No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)
      • 6
        Can't see all members in a video meeting
      • 5
        Unable to Mute users
      • 5
        No Markdown Support
      • 4
        You don't really own your messages
      • 4
        MIssing public channels
      • 4
        Forced WYSIWYG
      • 3
        Stubborn, unused friendly
      • 3
        Challenging Onboarding
      • 3
        No linux support
      • 1
        Audio support problems
      • 13
        Can be distracting depending on how you use it
      • 6
        Requires some management for large teams
      • 6
        Limit messages history
      • 5
        Too expensive
      • 5
        You don't really own your messages
      • 4
        Too many notifications by default

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      What is Kaiwa?

      Inspired by the best and built for XMPP, Kaiwa is a beautiful web-based client for the only standardized chat protocol. Combined with Prosody, one of the best XMPP servers out there, Kaiwa provides an unparalleled XMPP experience, on par with well-known commercial alternatives.

      What is Microsoft Teams?

      See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.

      What is Slack?

      Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

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