Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬
Live chat widget, shared inbox across email and messaging apps, and a help center.
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Intercom
Hosted customer messaging with live chat, a shared inbox and a help center. A closed product from Intercom.
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| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatwoot | Full replacement | 38k | Other | Open core | Yes | Ruby | v4.18.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Chaskiq | Full replacement | 3.6k | Other | Source available | Yes | TypeScript | 2.0.3 | 2026-06-30 |
| Libredesk | Partial | 3k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | v2.8.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Live Helper Chat | Partial | 2.3k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | PHP | 4.94v | 2026-10-06 |
| Tiledesk | Partial | 322 | MIT | Open source | Yes | Mustache | 1.2.1 | 2026-10-06 |
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A full featured Live Chat, Support & Marketing platform, alternative to Intercom, Drift, Crisp.
Live chat widget, shared inbox, bots, help center and in-app messages.
- Language
- TypeScript
- Licence
- Other
- Stars
- 3.6k
- Latest
- 2.0.3
- Last push
- 2026-06-30
Open-source, self-hosted customer support desk in a single binary. A lightweight alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Chatwoot.
Live chat and email in a shared inbox with a help center, without product tours or outbound messages.
Live Helper Chat - live support for your website. Featuring web and mobile apps, Voice & Video & ScreenShare. Supports Telegram, Twilio (whatsapp), Facebook messenger including building a bot.
Live chat widget with operators, departments, bots and chat routing, without a ticket inbox.
- Language
- PHP
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 2.3k
- Latest
- 4.94v
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
Install Tiledesk on your server using Helm for Kubernetes orchestration and Docker Compose for running multi-container Docker applications. Tiledesk provides an open-source solution comparable to Voiceflow, empowering you to create sophisticated LLM-enabled chatbots that seamlessly transition interactions to human agents when needed.
A live chat widget with chatbots that hand conversations over to human agents.
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