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Chatwoot

by chatwootRuby

Open-source customer engagement and live-chat CRM for marketing teams.

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In practice

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Support conversations scattered across email, chat widgets and social inboxes, with customer data held by a vendor.

Use it when

Use it when you want an omnichannel support desk and full control over customer conversation data.

Not the right pick when

It is a full Rails application with many services, so it is heavy if you only need a single chat widget.

Capabilities

  • omnichannel inbox covering live chat, email, WhatsApp, Telegram and SMS
  • Captain AI agent that automates common responses
  • built in help center portal for self serve articles
  • private notes, labels, canned responses and auto-assignment
  • contact segments, campaigns and custom attributes
  • reports including CSAT and downloadable exports

Cost: Free and open source

Install

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What the repository ships

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Latest release v4.16.2

Published 2026-07-27

ChangeLog

  • Captain FAQ suggestion review API and interface.
  • WhatsApp health monitoring, BSUID messaging, and clearer outbound call errors.
  • Intercom import retry and reliability improvements.
  • Super Admin account suspension metadata.
  • Conversation label search in the right-click menu.
  • Email template, agent invitation limit, and connected agent bot owner fixes.
  • Security hardening for conversation participants, account limits, and email limits.
  • Calls page, tooltip, and onboarding test improvements.
  • Numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

Thanks to @ajith-k-v, @hahuma, @NickThePigeon, @marcoazcabral for the contributions.

Note: Please upgrade to this version for the latest security fixes and hardening improvements. **

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README

<img src="./.github/screenshots/header.png#gh-light-mode-only" width="100%" alt="Header light mode"/>

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Chatwoot

The modern customer support platform, an open-source alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc.

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<a href="https://discord.gg/cJXdrwS"><img src="https://img.shields.io/discord/647412545203994635" alt="Discord"></a>

<a href="https://status.chatwoot.com"><img src="https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fchatwoot%2Fstatus%2Fmaster%2Fapi%2Fchatwoot%2Fuptime.json" alt="uptime"></a>

<a href="https://status.chatwoot.com"><img src="https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fchatwoot%2Fstatus%2Fmaster%2Fapi%2Fchatwoot%2Fresponse-time.json" alt="response time"></a>

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<a href="https://heroku.com/deploy?template=https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/tree/master" alt="Deploy to Heroku">

<img width="150" alt="Deploy" src="https://www.herokucdn.com/deploy/button.svg"/>

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<a href="https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/chatwoot?refcode=f2238426a2a8" alt="Deploy to DigitalOcean">

<img width="200" alt="Deploy to DO" src="https://www.deploytodo.com/do-btn-blue.svg"/>

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<img src="./.github/screenshots/dashboard.png#gh-light-mode-only" width="100%" alt="Chat dashboard dark mode"/>

<img src="./.github/screenshots/dashboard-dark.png#gh-dark-mode-only" width="100%" alt="Chat dashboard"/>


Chatwoot is the modern, open-source, and self-hosted customer support platform designed to help businesses deliver exceptional customer support experience. Built for scale and flexibility, Chatwoot gives you full control over your customer data while providing powerful tools to manage conversations across channels.

✨ Captain – AI Agent for Support

Supercharge your support with Captain, Chatwoot’s AI agent. Captain helps automate responses, handle common queries, and reduce agent workload—ensuring customers get instant, accurate answers. With Captain, your team can focus on complex conversations while routine questions are resolved automatically. Read more about Captain here.

💬 Omnichannel Support Desk

Chatwoot centralizes all customer conversations into one powerful inbox, no matter where your customers reach out from. It supports live chat on your website, email, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, Line, SMS etc.

📚 Help center portal

Publish help articles, FAQs, and guides through the built-in Help Center Portal. Enable customers to find answers on their own, reduce repetitive queries, and keep your support team focused on more complex issues.

🗂️ Other features

Collaboration & Productivity
  • Private Notes and @mentions for internal team discussions.
  • Labels to organize and categorize conversations.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts and a Command Bar for quick navigation.
  • Canned Responses to reply faster to frequently asked questions.
  • Auto-Assignment to route conversations based on agent availability.
  • Multi-lingual Support to serve customers in multiple languages.
  • Custom Views and Filters for better inbox organization.
  • Business Hours and Auto-Responders to manage response expectations.
  • Teams and Automation tools for scaling support workflows.
  • Agent Capacity Management to balance workload across the team.
Customer Data & Segmentation
  • Contact Management with profiles and interaction history.
  • Contact Segments and Notes for targeted communication.
  • Campaigns to proactively engage customers.
  • Custom Attributes for storing additional customer data.
  • Pre-Chat Forms to collect user information before starting conversations.
Integrations
  • Slack Integration to manage conversations directly from Slack.
  • Dialogflow Integration for chatbot automation.
  • Dashboard Apps to embed internal tools within Chatwoot.
  • Shopify Integration to view and manage customer orders right within Chatwoot.
  • Use Google Translate to translate messages from your customers in realtime.
  • Create and manage Linear tickets within Chatwoot.
Reports & Insights
  • Live View of ongoing conversations for real-time monitoring.
  • Conversation, Agent, Inbox, Label, and Team Reports for operational visibility.
  • CSAT Reports to measure customer satisfaction.
  • Downloadable Reports for offline analysis and reporting.

Documentation

Detailed documentation is available at chatwoot.com/help-center.

Translation process

The translation process for Chatwoot web and mobile app is managed at https://translate.chatwoot.com using Crowdin. Please read the translation guide for contributing to Chatwoot.

Branching model

We use the git-flow branching model. The base branch is develop.

If you are looking for a stable version, please use the master or tags labelled as v1.x.x.

Deployment

Heroku one-click deploy

Deploying Chatwoot to Heroku is a breeze. It's as simple as clicking this button:

Deploy

Follow this link to understand setting the correct environment variables for the app to work with all the features. There might be breakages if you do not set the relevant environment variables.

DigitalOcean 1-Click Kubernetes deployment

Chatwoot now supports 1-Click deployment to DigitalOcean as a kubernetes app.

<a href="https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/chatwoot?refcode=f2238426a2a8" alt="Deploy to DigitalOcean">

<img width="200" alt="Deploy to DO" src="https://www.deploytodo.com/do-btn-blue.svg"/>

</a>

Other deployment options

For other supported options, checkout our deployment page.

Security

Looking to report a vulnerability? Please refer our SECURITY.md file.

Community

If you need help or just want to hang out, come, say hi on our Discord server.

Contributors

Thanks goes to all these wonderful people:

<a href="https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/graphs/contributors"><img src="https://opencollective.com/chatwoot/contributors.svg?width=890&button=false" /></a>

Chatwoot &copy; 2017-2026, Chatwoot Inc - Released under the MIT License.

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