Chatwoot
A full customer engagement suite — a Rails app, not an engine
Takes off your invoice
You would run instead $0/mo
- Gem
- chatwoot
- Repository
- chatwoot/chatwoot
- License
- MIT, with a commercial edition
- Stars
- 23,000
- Added
- July 09, 2026
About
Chatwoot is the most complete open-source alternative to Intercom: shared inbox, live
chat, email, social channels, help centre, automations, reports.
Why it is listed here anyway
It is not a mountable engine. It is a full Rails application you deploy
separately, with its own database, Redis and workers.
It is here because it is the honest comparison point. If you need the whole Intercom
surface — routing rules, SLAs, multi-channel, reporting — no engine covers it, and
running Chatwoot is a reasonable answer.
If what you need is a chat bubble and an inbox that already knows who your users are,
mount Livechat instead and skip the second deployment.
Deploying it
docker compose up -d
There is no mount Chatwoot::Engine line, and there will not be one.
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