What can you build?

Today’s users expect realtime experiences—without clicking or dragging to refresh. From customer support chat apps and realtime polling to realtime mapping and live sports commentary, Channels lets you quickly integrate the realtime features your users need, without worrying about infrastructure.

What can you build with Channels?

Realtime charts and graphs

Update dashboards in real time, whatever the metric: stock tickers, cryptocurrency prices, application metrics, and more.

Presence indicators

Show who is online right now in a document, game, chat, or any other collaborative app.

Realtime location

Display the realtime location of a food delivery, share a dynamic location with friends, or even create a geofence to trigger location-based alerts.

Gaming

Synchronize game state between players, and add multi-user interactions to your games and apps.

Collaboration and activity feeds

Update a live list of events to display the latest activity and comments in any social or professional network.

Chat

Drive engagement and upgrade customer satisfaction with feature rich in-app chat functionality.

Realtime results

Display the status of anything in realtime, including match scores, odds updates, live election results or polls

Get started for free with our sandbox plan

Including 100 connections, 200k daily messages and unlimited channels, Alternatively take a look at our simple self-serve packages, or speak to the team about a tailored solution to your enterprise requirements.

Docs

Tutorials

Support