Chat overview
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Integrate private and group messaging into your applications.
Agora's Chat API offers real-time text messaging with features like message storage, typing indicators, read receipts, and rich media support. Designed for one-to-one, group, or large-scale conversations, it’s a scalable, secure, and customizable solution for customer engagement, social platforms, or enterprise collaboration.
Use Chat as a standalone messaging solution or combine it with Voice Calling, Video Calling, Broadcast Streaming, and Interactive Live Streaming to create fully interactive, real-time experiences.
Enhance your Chat-powered app with features like offline messaging, message translation, and customizable channel and user management. Support rich media messages—including emojis, structured messages, and file sharing—to deliver engaging and seamless communication for your users.
Start building
SDK quickstart
Integrate Chat SDK and send your first message.
Download SDKs
Get the latest Chat SDK package for your target platform.
UI kit quickstart
Start faster with prebuilt Chat UI components.
Authentication
Authenticate users and protect Chat access.
API reference
Explore Chat SDK and server API references.
Samples and demos
Download demo apps and sample projects.
Product features
Rich media messages
Support emojis, GPS locations, structured messages, push notifications, and rich-media files with auto-generated thumbnails with Agora’s chat API service.
Scalable cross-platform messaging
Integrate chat signaling, one-to-one private chat, or feature-rich group chat at scale with our chat SDK for mobile and desktop.
Message essentials
Allow offline messaging, message recall and delete, read receipts, presence and typing indicator, push notifications, and exporting chat history.
Security and compliance
Build a secure chat application with TLS/SSL and file encryption and ensure data privacy compliance by allowing users to erase their personal data.
Content moderation
Protect users from unwanted profanity, spam, and inappropriate images or text with robust content moderation built into the chat platform.
Message translation
Enable auto, on-demand, or push translation so your users can chat in their preferred language.