Hipchat

Hipchat is a useful group chat application for those who regularly work in groups. With just 1 account on Hipchat, you can work with colleagues or study groups with friends from any device.

Free group chat application Hipchat

Like many other chat applications, Hipchat is a multi-platform chat application that is completely free. You can install Hipchat for Windows computers, Mac computers, chat from iOS, Android phones or use right on the web browser. The most outstanding feature of this application is the focus on group chat feature, managing group chat with quite smart options.

Main features of free chat application Hipchat

• All free.
• Create a chat room with its own URL.
• Search file history, links and team members easily.
• Lets customize the theme.
• Notification settings for each chat room.
• Support video call and voice chat when chatting between 2 people.
• Warehouse rich icons.
• Ability to share files and links when chatting.

Introducing the group chat application Hipchat

Hipchat is a useful group chat application for those who regularly work in groups.With this application, you can easily create many chat rooms for each different work project, share files quickly and speed up. the connection level when working with all members.

Send messages, share files and use the rich icon bar of Hipchat chat application

After installing the software on your computer, you will need to create an account to log in. Click the Sign Up button immediately in the software interface, you will be redirected to the registration page. The registration process is quick as you only need to enter your name and email address. Then create a group and start using Hipchat. Right in the application interface, you can create an unlimited number of groups and members for each group.

Create new rooms with working names and themes

With Hipchat, users will never miss an important message because the application has the ability to send messages even when the recipient is offline. When you are online, you will also receive desktop notifications when colleagues share or comment in groups. Hipchat has quite a lot of options for displaying notifications.

A very useful new feature is the ability to set notifications for each individual chat room. This will help avoid receiving too much notifications when you are working with multiple groups. Users can also respond to messages from friends right in the notification displayed on the desktop without opening the application.

The notification setting options in each chat room of Hipchat are quite diverse and detailed. You can choose the Loud, Normal or Quiet notification levels whenever mentioned by other team members or when there are any new messages. The option to display a notification may be a pop-up window, highlight the icon of Hipchat in the taskbar, and play the sound keeping the pop until you turn on the application. You can also choose to enable or disable the notification display when the setting status is Do Not Disturb.

Hipchat owns a lot of settings for notification notification

Each Hipchat room is provided with a URL. So without having to install the software, users with Hipchat accounts can still access and join the chat group. The application will allow you to set access rights for guests as well as invite additional members or delete members already in the group.

Some options for manipulating the chat room of the admin

With the chat feature, Hipchat naturally has its iconic store in the interface but not very rich. However, do not rush to underestimate Hipchat because just click on More, you will be redirected to the app's icon store with nearly 300 other extremely interesting icons . Among these are also GIF images so you absolutely do not worry about the poor chat interface. Just click on the icon to copy it to the clipboard and paste into the chat dialog.

Warehouse icon with over 300 interesting icons of Hipchat

Besides the ability to chat text, team members can send files and share links to each other. On the right side of the interface of each chat room, you will see 3 icons Show People, Show Files and Show Links. Clicking on these icons will give you a list of team members, a list of files uploaded by the members and a list of shared links. The ability to save such sharing history is useful when working with multiple files and instead of having to drag chat history to find files, you just need to search in this list.

Search file sharing history, link list of members quickly

It must be said that Hipchat is really designed to be used for teamwork needs. Hipchat owns 1 feature quite useful and special compared to other chat applications. You can click the @ icon to mention other members (or yourself) in Hipchat. Especially the ability to mention all members in the group or all members online.

The feature refers to all members very useful of Hipchat

Hipchat allows users to customize the appearance, use a darker theme with some simple options such as displaying the user with an avatar or not . However, you cannot download images to make the theme for application. As a chat application, Hipchat also allows you to choose online status such as Available, Away or Do Not Disturb.

Hipchat interface when chatting in pairs

The dual chat interface is not much different from the group chat interface, you can still find the history of sharing links and files between two people or view the status of friends. Although it does not support video calling or voice chat with the group, Hipchat does support this feature when chatting between two people. This icon is also located in the right corner of the interface. While in a video call, you can open the screen in full.

Video calling and voice chat only support when chatting between 2 people

Based on 256-bit SSL encryption algorithm, you can fully guarantee the safety and security of the file when sharing. It also allows you to use keyboard shortcuts for faster operations and you can find them at Keyboard Shortcuts section by clicking on the question mark icon.

The application supports many useful keyboard shortcuts for faster operation

Hipchat is a completely free group chat application with a quite modern interface and especially the ability to organize chat rooms that are easy to follow. For a paid version, you can use group video calling or screen sharing. The application has a wide range of notification settings, especially for each chat room. Particularly with the dual chat feature, you can also make video calls or use voice chat.

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