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ONLINE COMMUNITY

In-app conversations for stronger digital communities

Build and retain real-time community interactions on your platform with Sendbird. Grow engagement through intimate conversations between friends.

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"We decided on Sendbird primarily for two reasons: the product seemed very much in line with our needs (i.e., richly-featured chat service), and their client base gave us confidence that they would be able to handle our traffic and projected growth."

Ben Celebicic
, CTO at Hinge

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Deepen user engagement with real-time interactions

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 when they matter most.

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Build trust and safety among communities

With Sendbird’s moderation tools, your community can build and share positive experiences, remove toxicity, and create trust in your platform and app.

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Manage users across open & private channels

As communities scale, guarantee your users a place to belong by empowering them to start conversations that matter.

Connect people & communities with chat, voice, video, and live experiences

Sendbird’s conversations platform enables communities to grow with group chat, voice, & video calls. That’s why vibrant communities like Dream11 and Blind connect users with Sendbird.

Stronger in-app communications. Tighter communities.

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Power instant and viral messages

Community members can share any media or meme in real-time. Notifications, typing indicators, and friend lists establish presence and keep people glued in.

  • 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
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Standardize safe and respectful interactions

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 ∙ GDPR
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Easily manage every user, group, or channel

Create spaces for a variety of conversations and let users access all of them easily. 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