Freshchat versus Rocket.Chat

Freshchat by Freshworks is a best-in-class live chat software built to delight customers across support, sales, and marketing with smarter conversational engagement.

Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. They do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software-as-a-service that’s affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end user.

Unlike legacy software, Freshworks builds tech that works for everyone, making it easy for IT, customer service, sales, marketers, and HR to do their job and delight their customers.

More than 60,000 companies use Freshworks’ SaaS to enable a better customer experience (CX, CRM) and employee experience (ITSM, HRSM).

Freshchat fuels businesses to have:

Intelligent conversations, anywhere

1. Unify messaging channels and personalize self-service on your website, in-app, and across digital messaging channels (WhatsApp, SMS, and more!)
2. Simplify customer experience with no-code, easy-to-build chatbots
3. Bring insights to action with native AI to power next-generation messaging

Simplified and contextual agent experiences

1. Give agents real-time context to perform faster and with ease
2. Respond to conversations from a single screen, wherever your customers message you
3. Give your agents complete customer context to boost CSAT with every conversation

Modern, cost-effective support

1. Fuel growth, while reducing your costs to serve 
2. Enable high rates of zero contact resolution and scale effortlessly
3. Drive value faster with pre-built templates for chatbots and journeys

Rocket.Chat is a SaaS and genuine Free Open Source Software platform. They are developing an impressive range of communication and collaboration solutions for a wide variety of organizations, catering to industries like financial services, healthcare, and governments.

Open Source

Rocket.Chat, being Open Source, lets you review the code yourself or contribute to the project in their GitHub Repository. Unlike most providers, Rocket.Chat holds an MIT license, granting you full ownership and control over your code, data, privacy, and security. Detailed documentation for developers is available on the Rocket.Chat website, allowing you to build upon their framework and customize integrations.

One of their core products is Team Collaboration which you can set up as a privately hosted alternative to Slack. Of course, the use case for their software highlighted here is Customer Service and Engagement.

With Rocket.Chat you can manage live chat, email, SMS, and social media channels in a single security-oriented hub. The options and features at hand are mostly limited by your imagination.