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Freshchat vs Intercom: What are the differences?

What is Freshchat? Turn visitors into leads and customers into happy users. Freshchat is a modern messaging software built for teams who want to ace customer conversations—marketing, sales, or support.

What is Intercom? A fundamentally new way to communicate with your customers. Intercom is a customer communication platform with a suite of integrated products for every team—including sales, marketing, product, and support. Have targeted communication with customers on your website, inside apps, and by email.

Freshchat and Intercom belong to "Engagement/Lifecycle Marketing" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Freshchat are:

  • Triggered Messages
  • Email Campaigns
  • Bots

On the other hand, Intercom provides the following key features:

  • Live customer data
  • Rich user and company profiles
  • Real-time customer segments
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      Know who your users are
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      Auto-messaging
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      In-app messaging as well as email
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      Customer support
    • 68
      Usage tracking
    • 18
      Great Blog
    • 11
      Organized engagement, great ui & service
    • 9
      Direct chat with customers on your site
    • 4
      Very helpful
    • 3
      Onboarding new users
    • 2
      Tirman
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      No Mac app
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      Free tier
    • 2
      Filter and segment users
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      Github integration
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      Very Useful

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        Changes pricing model all the time

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      What is Freshchat?

      Freshchat is a modern messaging software built for teams who want to ace customer conversations—marketing, sales, or support.

      What is Intercom?

      Intercom is a customer communication platform with a suite of integrated products for every team—including sales, marketing, product, and support. Have targeted communication with customers on your website, inside apps, and by email.

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