Great product at a reasonable price point. Lacks integrations.
Updated August 13, 2019
Great product at a reasonable price point. Lacks integrations.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Glip
Across the whole company we use a Glip competitor but Glip is being used in a project for a client, the client itself asked us to use Glip instead of the program we use for other projects.
For our clients, and ultimately for us, Glip provides a good service at a lower price tag, compared to similar products.
For our clients, and ultimately for us, Glip provides a good service at a lower price tag, compared to similar products.
Pros
- Ease of use: It is extremely easy to use Glip and its features.
- Ease of adoption: You can start using Glip in a couple of minutes and scale its use to the whole team, no hassle.
- Scalability: This products scales well both in users and in pricing.
Cons
- Integrations with other products: Glip has some integrations but not all you would like. There are a dozen or more apps you can use the product with, but your team might have the need to connect the app with another popular product or service that Glip still does not have (Confluence, for example).
- Can't create bots or custom integrations (?): As far as I know, you cannot create bots or custom integrations with other apps.
- Performance: Looks a bit slow to start for the first time, the app will load slower than other apps. Not sure if this is because I work on a large team or anything else, but the feeling that Glip loads slower than anything else makes me think that the app's performance has some room for improvement.
- Less money to be paid for the same service.
Between Slack, HipChat and GLip, Slack comes with both the higher degree of customization and integrations and the higher price tag. HipChat comes last with the smallest set of features. Glip is right in the middle with a decent amount of features at a lower price.
I like Slack the most for its features, but for a team needing just the basics, Glip is a great option.
I like Slack the most for its features, but for a team needing just the basics, Glip is a great option.
Glip (discontinued) Feature Ratings
Using Glip
100 - Communications between engineers and engineering teams.
Mid-level engineers but we have no one in-house supporting glip
- Discussing technical information
- Sharing information across the organization
- Sharing memes (?)
Evaluating Glip and Competitors
Using Glip
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using | Lots to learn |
- Direct messages
- Group chats
- Team chats
- Notifications are not shown sometimes
Yes - Good enough, it has the basics and works well enough, but I prefer the web version of it.
Integrating Glip
- Google Drive
Not much of a problem integrating Glip with Google Drive, just a couple of clicks and it was done. We have not needed any other integration so far.
- Confluence
They don't offer an official integration or a custom integration procedure.
- Single Signon
To users: Use what you got and use as much as you can from integrations. If you need complex actions such as hooks, bots adn the like, look elsewhere.
To Glip: add a way to include custom integrations or an easier to find guide on the matter.
To Glip: add a way to include custom integrations or an easier to find guide on the matter.
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