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Build and retain real-time community chat on your platform with SendBird. Grow engagement through intimate conversations between friends and communities.
Be the most relevant platform to what's happening now
With a 24-hour news cycle, communities want to share and respond to the latest as it happens. Give your community a platform to chat and share rich media about the topics that matter most to them when they matter most. Be the community where all the relevant conversations happen.
Foster trust that builds champions for your brand
Never fear a toxic community for your in-app messaging. With SendBird's user-to-user and other moderation tools, your community can build and share positive experiences that create trust in your platform and app.
Start conversations for every interest
As commmunities scale, guarantee your users a place to belong by empowering them to start conversations that matter. Build a group channel for every interest and type of content imaginable. Then grow your community with quality interactions in every conversation at once.
Connecting growing communities with chat
SendBird's in-app messaging platform enables you to grow intimate communities with topic-based group chat. That's why vibrant communities like Hinge, Gryt, Wildfire, and Sober Grid build chat with SendBird.
Design your community around relevant, real-time messaging experiences that instill trust in your platform and foster quality engagement across different topic- and interest-groups. SendBird's SDK and API allow you to customize the experience to match your brand, community, and culture - across all your apps and platforms. With support to scale over 1M concurrent connections and 500M messages a day, you will never need to think about scale.
Reddit, the 3rd most visited website in the U.S., partnered with SendBird to provide direct messaging and Super Group Chat for subreddits on its mobile applications and the web. By creating a new kind of real-time communication, Reddit chat successfully grew person-to-person and real-time user engagement.
The only chat platform built for communities
Instant participation, viral conversation
With real-time messaging, your community members can share any media or meme when the impulse strikes. Notifications, typing indicators and friend lists establish presence and keep people glued into the moments that matter.
Send any media easily
Share gifs ∙ Video ∙ Audio ∙ Images - anything in an automatically rendered thumbnail
Keep everyone in the loop in real-time
Push notifications ∙ Announcement messages ∙ Custom notifications built with webhooks
Create community presence
Typing indicators ∙ Read receipts ∙ Friend and group lists
Make safe conversations the standard
Whether you have a community manager or not, SendBird helps your community defend against trolls and toxicity with automatic or manual moderation tools, profanity filters, and spam flood protection.
Built-in safety for chat
Automatic image blocking ∙ Profanity Filters ∙ Spam flood protection ∙ Encrypted files ∙ User-to-user blocking
Moderation for community managers
Freeze channels ∙ Mute, ban, or deactivate users ∙ Announcement messages
Privacy and security first
HIPAA and HITECH ∙ ISO27001 ∙ EU-US Privacy Shield ∙ GDPR
Every user. Every sub-group. Every conversation. Handled.
Create spaces for a variety of conversations and let users access all of them from a single list. Connect people in group chats, then allow them to build 1-on-1 connections.
Group chat for any specialized topic
Private and public group chats ∙ Channel lists
Scale to match your community, always
Supports over 1 million concurrent connections and 500 million messages per day ∙ Across any platform ∙ Web or mobile
Create community presence
Friend lists ∙ Group invitations ∙ 1-on-1 messaging
