Helpdesk and live chat

Chatwoot

Shared inbox and live chat. The community code is MIT.

Partial score

WebsiteCodeDeploy

9/19 signals

Why this score

Not enough measured signals for Owner-safe, and the score is outside the Needs-a-techie band. Captured 2026-10-15. Unmeasured signals add nothing and are not treated as failures.

Alive14/20
  • Last push. 8 points. GitHub pushed_at was 0 days before 2026-10-15.
  • Releases in 12 months. 6 points. The public releases feed shows at least 10 tagged releases in the last 12 months.
  • How fast issues close. Not measured. Median issue-close time is not in the seed snapshot, so this signal is omitted.
Trusted6.8/20
  • OpenSSF Scorecard. 4.8 points. OpenSSF Scorecard 6.9 out of 10.
  • Open critical or high vulnerabilities. Not measured. Open vulnerability counts were not fetched. We do not assume zero.
  • Contributors in 90 days. Not measured. 90-day contributor counts were not fetched.
  • Bus factor. Not measured. Contributor share was not fetched.
  • Stars. 2 points. 37,800 stars, log-scaled and capped at 20,000.
Takeoverable12.3/25
  • Licence. 10 points. Licence class permissive.
  • Stack. 2.3 points. Ruby. TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP, and Vue score as widely hireable.
  • Tests and CI. Not measured. We did not confirm a test suite. Missing CI at the usual paths is treated as unknown, not as a failure.
  • Docs quality. Not measured. Docs quality is an LLM rubric. v1 does not invent that score.
  • Data export. Not measured. Data-export was not audited app by app, so it is omitted.
Easy to run9/20
  • One-click deploy. Not measured. No one-click host was verified for this app, so the signal is omitted rather than scored as a failure.
  • Managed cloud or done-for-you. 5 points. SeatLess offers done-for-you setup. A vendor cloud, where listed, is the vendor’s own hosting, not a licence you own.
  • Docker Compose. 4 points. A Dockerfile or Compose file is in the repository.
  • Memory needs. Not measured. Memory needs were not measured.
  • Setup steps. Not measured. Setup-step rubric was not run.
Feature fit11.3/15
  • Coverage of the incumbent’s main jobs. 11.3 points. Editorial reading of public docs. Not a certified feature audit. Unknown jobs are left out of the average.

What it replaces

Chatwoot is a customer inbox: website chat, email, and other channels in one queue. The licence file puts everything outside the enterprise directory under MIT. That is a permissive licence, which matters if an agency wants to extend it.

Feature coverage vs Intercom

Editorial, from public descriptions. A dash means we did not assess that job. This is not a lab test, and Intercom has not reviewed it.

JobChatwoot
In-app messenger✓
Team inbox✓
Bots◐
Help centre◐

Licence, in plain language

MIT Permissive

You can use it, change it, and keep your copy, including inside a product you sell, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

MIT outside the enterprise/ directory, which has its own licence.

Repository health

Stars37,800
Forks9,207
Open issues1,594
Last push2026-10-15
Last tagged release2026-09-18
Releases in 12 months10 or more
OpenSSF Scorecard6.9
LanguageRuby
ArchivedNo

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