One of the most essential features of an app is in-app messaging. Businesses of every kind can leverage chat within their apps to better engage their customers. A chat function also fits a lot of different app scenarios as well & improves user experience in small Online communities, gaming, e-commerce Websites, among others.
Building a chat function into your app can take months. Instead of building it on your own, you can easily make use of this startup called ‘Chatkit’. The latter is a tool from ‘Pusher’ designed to make adding a chat function to your apps simple & very easy. It lets you add 1-1 as well as group chat to your app. You can also make use of Chatkit to set up collaborative apps for easy communication within teams.
Chatkit has all the important features that provide a richer chat experience to users. It has an API & 7 well-documented SDKs that developers can customize & seamlessly integrate into your existing app without stress.
Chatkit gives you all the core essentials of a chat function as well as other peripheral features. You get features such as public & private rooms, read cursors, multimedia messaging functions, roles, & permissions right out of the box. Chatkit also offers message storage along other unique features.
Chatkit SDKs are easily customizable, it claims. You also don’t have to worry yourself about the infrastructure & scalability as it fits right into your app without any stress at all on different platforms whether Android, iOS, Java script, php and so on.
Chatkit has 3 pricing plans. the Sandbox option gives you access to all core chat features for free. However, for the more advanced options you will have to subscribe to the business plan.
– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
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