Freshchat vs MyLiveChat

Freshchat helps organizations handle customer conversations across websites, mobile apps, and messaging channels. Its shared inbox lets agents assign, respond to, and resolve conversations, including messages from web and mobile chat, email, social messengers, SMS, WhatsApp, LINE, and Google Business Messages. Businesses can deploy no-code Freddy AI chatbots to answer common questions. The free plan includes a web and mobile chat widget, shared inbox, email connection, and roles and permissions for up to 10 agents. Freshchat also has Android and iOS apps for responding, assigning conversations, adding private notes, resolving chats, and receiving notifications. The 14-day trial provides Enterprise access and requires no credit card. Paid plans start at $19 a month, billed annually. Listed higher-tier options include multilingual conversations, custom dashboards, intelligent routing, and audit logs. Connectors and APIs support integrations and workflow automation. Freshchat says its standalone data stores are encrypted in transit and at rest.

MyLiveChat adds website chat for businesses that want visitors to reach a live agent or a chatbot. It also tracks visitors, and its listed chat channel is the website. The service is available on the web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, and lists 45 integrations. The free plan provides one agent seat and three years of chat history, at free, billed forever, with no credit card required. Starter costs $15 a month and has one agent seat and three years of history. Basic costs $29 a month for two to four seats and five years of history, while Corporate costs $59 a month for five to nine seats and five years. Enterprise costs $99 a month for 10 or more seats and 15 years of chat history. Paid plans are billed monthly and can be canceled at any time. MyLiveChat is the maker, founded in 2003 and headquartered in North York, Ontario, Canada.