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10 Examples of Beautiful Chat UI & Interaction Design

We've put together 10 examples of beautiful chat UI & UX design that will inspire you when building your own.

Marketplace Chat UI/UX Inspiration

An honest guide: How to choose the best WordPress chat plugin

Skipping a live chat option on your WordPress website is no longer an option. Every WordPress website needs some form of chat plugin.

Debunking 9 Common Myths around Instant Messaging apps

As a business, your inbound and outbound communications might be suffering due to lack of efficient mediums, which would be negatively affecting your business. All this while, you might not have the slightest idea about it.

The smartest way to add smart replies to your chat

If you have a chat feature in your app or are in the process of building one, this post is bound to interest you. With smart replies popping up in more and more apps, this short post explains why you should care about them and announces our new, even smarter way to implement them in your own iOS, Android or JavaScript chat app with CometChat Pro [https://cometchat.

Must-have animations for in-app chat solutions

Must-have animations for ChatbotsA few months ago, when I was designing the chat panel for a video conferencing desktop app, I included a “typing…” UI in the design mockup. During the design review, engineer colleagues told me that…Shan ShenUX Collective [https://uxdesign.

How to build a great chat UI/UX

Build vs Buy: Should you build chat from scratch?

Learn how to decide between building a chat feature from scratch or using a chat API and SDK like CometChat.

Announcing Human Moderation, and why you shouldn't code chat from scratch

When starting a new project, you know what you know and you know what you don't know, but it's what you don't know you don't know that will get you 😱. That's why productive teams do spikes to gather information and to determine how much work will be required.

Why your users care about sharing their location

Your users will now be able to share their location with each other on your website. Thanks to this sparkling new release of CometChat Go.

Don't make me think (about chat)

Chat for Marketplaces

Learn how CometChat helps marketplaces gain a competitive advantage in today's highly competitive world.

"Building a real-time chat will be difficult" - Knox from Feature

Knox Dobbins from Feature talks about how they use CometChat to power their in-app messaging.

Does this look simple to you?

Does this carnival game look simple to you? Read my article to learn more about it, Tinder charging to view read receipts and of course, all things chat.

Email Notification for Unread Messages

We are proud to announce the launch of our Email Notification extension and our partnership with SendGrid. Use our Email Notification extension to auto-magically send aggregated emails to users when they have unread messages.

CometChat weekly update #1

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the CometChat weekly update, our weekly roundup featuring a selection of the things we've been working on that we're most excited about. My goal here is to give you as much information as I can while keeping it all easily scannable and digestible.

Tutorial: Creating a Xamarin Chat App Using Chat API

Messaging apps are becoming omnipresent in today’s realm owing to the rise of Chat API. We have put together a tutorial that will enable you to build a messaging app from scratch with no more than a few hundred lines of code without requiring a server or registration.

​​Layer is shutting down: What happened and what you can do

In recent months, numerous businesses reached out to CometChat looking for an alternative to Layer, which they felt was on the decline. Last week, we were saddened to hear that Layer decided to shut down all operations, giving their customers only 90 days to migrate to another service.