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24 alternatives to Chatwoot 2.0 - Open-source Intercom / Zendesk

Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Chatwoot 2.0 - Open-source Intercom / Zendesk launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chatwoot▲329

    Chatwoot is an AI-powered, open-source customer support platform. Self-host or use our cloud to manage live chat, email, WhatsApp, and social conversations.

    2021 · chatwoot.com · its alternatives →

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    Libredesk is a 100% free and open-source customer support desk, the backend is written in Go and the frontend is in Vue JS with ShadnCN for UI components. Unlike many "open-core" alternatives that lock essential features behind enterprise plans, Libredesk is fully open-source and plans to always stay this way. It's in alpha (v0.1.0) right now, but there’s a working demo available. I built this because I wanted a truly open and self-hosted alternative to platforms like Chatwoot, Intercom, and Zendesk. Would love feedback, suggestions, and thoughts from the community. GitHub:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A free Intercom/Zendesk chat altnerative

    2023 · spryngtime.com · its alternatives →

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    Live chat, shared inbox & knowledge base

    2021 · labidesk.com · its alternatives →

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    Client library for Minimal Chat. Contribute to minimalchat/client development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Libredesk is a 100% free and open-source helpdesk, a Zendesk/Intercom alternative. Backend in Go, frontend in Vue + shadcn/ui. Unlike many "open-core" alternatives that lock essential features behind enterprise plans, Libredesk is fully open-source and will always stay that way. Last year I posted v0.1.0 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158166 A year later, it's omni-channel. Alongside email, you can drop a live chat widget (beta) onto your website and handle both channels in the same agent UI. The chat widget, CSAT pages, and email templates are all…

    2025 · libredesk.io · its alternatives →

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    Open source Intercom and Drift alternative

    2021 · papercups.io · its alternatives →

  12. 12CP

    I’m Pranav, co-founder of Chatwoot (https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot), an open-source alternative to Intercom and Zendesk. What started as a passion project in 2019, gained a lot of momentum recently. This was possible because of all the contributions and love we got from the community. We’ve created a page (https://contributors.chatwoot.com) to showcase our contributors’ work and give them a platform to share their contributions with the world. We open-sourced this little project too. We’ve made our repo for other open-source projects to use it as a…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    All-in-one helpdesk to assist, engage & sell to leads

    2021 · labidesk.com · its alternatives →

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    Jan▲329

    Open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline

    2024 · jan.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Over the past few months, I've been working on building Omni - a workplace search and chat platform that connects to apps like Google Drive/Gmail, Slack, Confluence, etc. Essentially an open-source alternative to Glean, fully self-hosted. I noticed that some orgs find Glean to be expensive and not very extensible. I wanted to build something that small to mid-size teams could run themselves, so I decided to build it all on Postgres (ParadeDB to be precise) and pgvector. No Elasticsearch, or dedicated vector databases. I figured Postgres is more than capable of handling the level…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The end-to-end model powering multimodal chat

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Foxchat▲275

    Best Intercom alternative for startups and indie hackers

    Feb 2026 · foxchat.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open Source AI Omnichannel customer service With Team IM

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chaton▲88

    1:1 video chat P2P open source

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    DeskDingo▲137

    Free live chat software

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Like Slack, but opensource and self-hosted.

    2015 · sdelements.github.io · its alternatives →

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    An omnichannel chat widget for your website. 100% free!

    2021 · rasayel.io · its alternatives →

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    Papercups▲227

    Open source Intercom Alternative

    2020 · papercups.io · its alternatives →

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    WebWhiz▲214

    Custom ChatGPT for your website, open source, free self-host

    2023 · webwhiz.ai · its alternatives →

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