HumHub vs Jodel

HumHub is an open-source intranet and collaboration platform for communication and knowledge sharing. It is intended for company intranets, knowledge bases, project hubs, and customer or partner communities. Built-in tools include personalized dashboards, activity streams, configurable notifications, granular permissions, full-text search, file management, and social interactions. More than 80 optional modules add choices such as News, Messenger, Calendar, LDAP, SAML SSO, surveys, and translation tools. The platform supports private spaces, events, and moderation, with integrations including OnlyOffice, Collabora Online, LDAP, SAML SSO, and a RESTful API. Organizations can host it on their own infrastructure or use managed SaaS on European servers. The maker says its SaaS hosting is GDPR-compliant and uses ISO 27001-certified servers; on-premise users retain data in their own environment. Community Edition is available free under AGPLv3 for self-hosting. Professional Edition is €144 a month, billed monthly, for up to 100 users with SaaS hosting and no onboarding. Networks with 1,000 or more users require a custom quote.

Jodel is a local social networking app for anonymous conversations with people nearby. Users can share messages, images, and videos, ask questions, and follow local updates without profiles. Its feed includes local news, events, confessions, jokes, and other nearby posts. Longer threads, pinned content, and channels provide ways to follow topics. Upvotes and downvotes shape visibility: a post leaves the feed when its vote difference reaches minus five. Sensitive posts are hidden by default, with session-level content preferences available. Direct messaging includes blocking in chats and muting replies from selected users on your posts. Jodel says AI scans uploaded images and videos for non-compliant content and detects spam or coordinated abuse; uncertain cases can go to human moderators. Some website posts can be viewed without an app account. The service runs on Android, iOS, and the web, is free with in-app purchases, and requires users to be at least 16. Personal data may be processed outside the EU and EEA with stated safeguards.