Live Helper Chat
Live Support chat for your website.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 70% of tracked projects; popularity more than 52%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 2.2k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 4.93v · 18 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | PHP |
Is Live Helper Chat actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 640 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 123 of them.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 51% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, 4.93v, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Live Helper Chat ranks #21 of 46 in Communication - Custom Communication Systems, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Live Helper Chat actually does
Live Helper Chat is a self-hosted customer communication system that provides real-time messaging functionality for websites. It allows visitor inquiries to be handled directly through a custom interface on your own infrastructure under an Apache-2.0 licence. Built on PHP, it serves as an alternative to proprietary third-party customer support widgets.
Best fit: It suits teams that require a self-hosted communication tool for website visitor support and want full control over their chat data.
Worth knowing: You will need to manage your own server resources, updates, and database maintenance, and the software may overlap with more widely adopted commercial helpdesk alternatives.
Deployment notes
As a PHP application, it typically requires a web server such as Nginx or Apache, a relational database like MySQL or MariaDB, and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination securely.
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