Chatwoot
Chatwoot is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Team Chat category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Ruby. It is a self-hosted alternative to Zendesk, Intercom and Freshdesk and ships a Docker image. It has 38,309 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 38,309
- Forks
- 9,342
- Open issues
- 1,046
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,504
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v4.19.1Oct 24, 2026
- Created
- Aug 14, 2019
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 1,504 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors8 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,504 |
| Latest release | v4.19.1 (Oct 24, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 153 |
| Open issues | 1,046 |
| Open pull requests | 529 |
| Good first issues | 8 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Aug 14, 2019 |
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About Chatwoot
Customer communication platform (alternative to Intercom and Zendesk).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot.
Topics
- vuejs
- intercom
- zendesk
- rails
- design
- sass
- actioncable
- opensource
- livechat
- javascript
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Is Chatwoot free and open source?
Yes. Chatwoot is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Chatwoot with Docker?
Yes. Chatwoot provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Chatwoot?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Chatwoot include Rocket.Chat, Novu and Mattermost. Chatwoot itself is a self-hosted alternative to Zendesk, Intercom and Freshdesk.
Is Chatwoot actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Chatwoot was on Oct 26, 2026 with 1,504 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v4.19.1, published Oct 24, 2026. It had 1,046 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.