When comparing Unison vs Gitter.im, the Slant community recommends Gitter.im for most people. In the question“What is the best team chat software?” Gitter.im is ranked 11th while Unison is ranked 70th. The most important reason people chose Gitter.im is:
Integrations for Trello, Jenkins, Travis CI, Heroku, Sentry, BitBucket, HuBoard, Logentries, Pagerduty & Sprintly are available.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Notifies via mentions
It's possible to @user or @all to alert a specific user or everyone in a room, respectively.
Pro Full end-to-end encryption
Pro Native apps for iOS and Android
In addition to being available on the web, Unison has native iOS and Android applications.
Pro Shows who has read each post
Pro Built-in support for video conferencing
Video calls are a single click away.
Pro Has many developer-friendly integrations
Integrations for Trello, Jenkins, Travis CI, Heroku, Sentry, BitBucket, HuBoard, Logentries, Pagerduty & Sprintly are available.
Pro Unlimited public and private rooms for free
Pro Has full Markdown support
Pro Has an IRC bridge
Pro Has apps for OSX, iOS and Chrome
Pro Has a Windows 8 app
Unofficial app for Gitter.im is currently available.