Slack

Slack: A handy tool that lets you easily share files and ideas with other team members

While there’s an incredibly large number of chat apps available that come with file sharing support, HipChat is an application that was specifically designed for team collaboration. The program allows you to easily chat with your colleagues for team project development, receiving real-time notifications when another team member makes a new comment, shares codes or creates a branch.

With this tool, you can quickly create chat rooms where you can share content and discuss work related details with team members, coworkers, customers, vendors and so on. HipChat comes equipped with powerful security features, as it offers 256-bit SSL encryption to secure the chats as well as any transferred files.

The chat rooms you create in the program can have an unlimited number of participants, and to create one all you need to do is add a few details like the topic and the chat room’s name. This ensures you will be able to easily identify each chat room when you have multiple ones.

You are able to invite anyone into your chat rooms, as well as restrict access for certain users. Thanks to the integration with powerful collaboration apps like Bitbucket, Scout, JIRA and Confluence, HipChat can be used as the central hub for your team, allowing all of its members to stay up to date via notifications.