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# What Is CometChat?

> Overview of What Is CometChat? in CometChat.

CometChat is a comprehensive communications platform that empowers businesses to seamlessly integrate real-time chat, voice and video calling functionalities. These integrations can be done picking up the implementation methods that align best with your goals.

Our **Messaging & chat** features offer flexible, secure, feature-rich and easy-to-manage integrations for your web and mobile apps. With **Voice & video calling** features, you get enterprise-grade security, robust infrastructure and a familiar UI from the same vendor as your chat solution.

## Solutions for every industry

CometChat's solutions cater to every industry with a global and scalable infrastructure, multi-region capabilities, multi-tenancy, and round-the-clock support. Our comprehensive documentation, competitive pricing, and flexible implementation options ensure that our platform is equipped for enterprise-grade requirements while remaining accessible for startups.

This dual readiness positions CometChat as both **Enterprise-ready** and **Startup-friendly**.

Our customer base spans a diverse range of industries, including:

* Online marketplaces
* Healthcare
* Dating
* Events & streaming
* Online education
* Community & Social
* Sports & Gaming
* Team Comms & Workflows
* SaaS Businesses

## Integrate in minutes

With a few lines of code, you can have CometChat integrated into any app written in React, iOS, Android, Flutter and 12+ other languages.

**Future proof your chat roadmap** by implementing chat quickly and efficiently with minimal risk. Our UI kits, APIs empower you to focus on growing your business while we handle the technical aspects.

**Partner with subject matter experts** and master the art of real-time engagement with CometChat. Our expertise in messaging, chat, and calling empowers you to offer the best in-app chat experience.

**Complete customizability & extensions** empowers you to personalize user experience, leverage data from other systems, connect chat to your core business logic with webhooks, extensions & integrations.

## Build with tools of your choice

### No-code widget

Simply copy and paste a few lines of code to add text, voice, and video to your web app in minutes.

### Low-code UI Kits

Reduce your time to market and give your users the modern chat experience they expect with UI kits.

### SDKs & APIs

Fully customizable and easy to use? Yes, it's possible, with our SDKs and APIs for in-app messaging and voice & video calling.

## Compliances

Choosing CometChat is your assurance of a meticulously vetted and highly secure solution. We deeply appreciate and obsess over the significance of both security and compliance.

CometChat is fully compliant with the following security standards:

* **HIPAA + BAA**: CometChat is compliant with HIPAA rules and standards and can enter into a BAA.
* **PIPEDA**: CometChat is compliant with PIPEDA and follows the Fair Information Principles.
* **GDPR**: CometChat meets all requirements of GDPR and provides special APIs to enable customers to maintain compliance.
* **ISO 27001**: CometChat is certified compliant with the ISO 27001 standards.
* **SOC 2 Type 2**: CometChat is certified compliant with SOC 2’s five Trust Service Principles of security, availability, privacy, confidentiality, and processing integrity.

## Features

### Messaging & chat

| Core messaging | Advanced messaging | Engagement |
| - | - | - |
| One-on-one private chat | Threaded conversations | Mentions |
| Group text messaging | Message replies | Stickers & GIFs |
| Share files & multimedia | Message translation | Collaborative whiteboard |
| Typing indicators | Smart Replies | Collaborative document |
| Users & friends list | Chat history | Polls |
| Users & friends presence | Custom messages | Mentions count |
| Read receipts | Pin message | User profile avatars |
| Delivery receipts | Save message | Reminders |
| Audio messages | Rich media preview | Reactions |
| Unread message count | URL shorteners | Push notifications |
| Users search | Thumbnail generation | Email notifications & replies |
| Messages search | Message shortcuts | SMS notifications |
| | Voice transcription | Email replies |
| | Broadcast message | |

| Moderation | Administration & Security | Integrations & webhooks |
| - | - | - |
| In-flight message moderation | Analytics | Analytics & usage API |
| Image moderation | Dashboard team management | Rest APIs |
| Profanity filter | Custom metadata | Before message webhook |
| Data masking | Cross-platform sync | After message webhook |
| XSS Filter | User & group management | Intercom |
| User-to-user blocking | Encryption | SendGrid |
| Moderation dashboard | Multi-device support | Chatwoot |
| Human moderators | Historical data import API | Virgil security |
| Report user | Live data migration | App management API |
| Kick/ban users | Data export | App creation API |
| Report message | ISO 27001 | Presence webhook |
| Virus & malware scanner | SOC 2 | Read receipt |
| Sentiment analysis | GDPR API | Delivery receipt |
| | HIPPA w/ BAA | |
| | Encryption in transit (TLS/SSL) | |
| | Encryption at rest (AES 256) | |
| | Role-based access control | |
| | Disappearing messages | |
| | End-to-end encryption | |
| | End-user API endpoint restriction | |

### Voice & video calling

| Calling essentials | Advanced calling features | Administration |
| - | - | - |
| 1-to-1 calling | Video broadcasting | Analytics & usage API |
| Group calling | Call recording | Rest APIs |
| Multi-device support | Interactive whiteboard | Dashboard analytics |
| Conference calls | Interactive document | Call logs |
| Personal meeting rooms | Picture-in-picture | Customizable call screens |
| Mobile calling | Screen sharing | SRTP encryption |
| Push notifications | In-call messaging | Pushkit & callkit support |
| Grid tile & spotlight layouts | | App management API |

### CometChat AI

| Insights AI | Conversational AI | Moderation AI |
| - | - | - |
| AI Funnel Insights | Conversation Starter & Smart Replies | Content Moderation |
| AI User Insights | Conversation Summaries | AI Image Moderation |
| AI Entity Insights | AI Bots | Mute Suggestions |

## Moving forward

Next, have a look at the Implementation checklist to quickly integrate chat functionality into your app and prepare for a successful launch.


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