Customer Support

Help desks and live chat for handling customer conversations. Of the 16 tools tracked here, 16 of 16 run in the browser; 12 have native iOS and Android apps; 2 also ship Windows and/or macOS desktop apps — platform support sourced from each vendor's own site.

16 tools in this category

Customer Support

Crisp

Crisp is an all-in-one customer support platform combining AI-powered agents with live chat, shared inbox, and CRM tools to help businesses automate and streamline customer interactions.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Five9

Five9 is a cloud contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) platform for inbound, outbound, and blended customer engagement across voice and digital channels, built around its Genius AI suite of AI Agents, Agent Assist, and GenAI Studio.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Freshdesk

Freshdesk (by Freshworks) is an AI-powered customer service solution designed to be easy to set up and boost agent productivity while delivering seamless customer experiences.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Front

Front is described by the vendor as "the AI customer operations platform," integrating shared team inboxes, ticketing, and AI tools to handle complex, cross-team customer support workflows.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Genesys Cloud CX

Genesys Cloud CX is an enterprise contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) platform unifying contact center, digital channels, workforce engagement, and AI orchestration across voice and digital customer interactions.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Gorgias

Gorgias is a conversational AI platform built for ecommerce businesses, combining a helpdesk and AI agent to handle customer conversations across channels while aiming to drive revenue.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

HappyFox

HappyFox is a full-stack AI support platform offering help desk ticketing, an AI-powered chatbot, a service desk for IT teams, and workflow automation for customer and internal support.

4 alternatives

Customer Support

Help Scout

Help Scout is a customer service platform that centralizes email and other communication channels into a shared inbox, with AI-assisted drafting and a chatbot, to help teams deliver personalized support.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Intercom

Intercom is a customer service platform pairing a full helpdesk with Fin, a natively integrated AI agent, letting businesses handle both automated and human-led support conversations in one system.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Kayako

Kayako is an AI help desk platform whose Kay AI agent classifies, prioritizes, routes, and drafts replies to support tickets, either as a standalone helpdesk or layered on top of existing systems.

4 alternatives

Customer Support

LiveAgent

LiveAgent is an all-in-one customer service platform that merges email, live chat, phone, and social messaging into a single ticketing dashboard with a built-in call center.

4 alternatives

Customer Support

Re:amaze

Re:amaze is a unified customer service platform for ecommerce and online businesses, combining a shared inbox, live chat, chatbots, and an AI agent trained on the business's own content.

4 alternatives

Customer Support

Talkdesk

Talkdesk is a cloud contact center platform, positioned as "CCaaS for people, CXA for AI," that combines traditional contact-center software with autonomous, orchestrated AI agents for specific customer-experience tasks.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Tidio

Tidio is a customer service platform combining live chat, a help desk, and the Lyro AI agent, which can independently handle a large share of repetitive support conversations.

4 alternatives

Customer Support

Zendesk

Zendesk is an AI-first customer service platform combining self-learning AI agents with unified ticketing and omnichannel workflow tools, serving both customer service and internal employee service use cases.

3 alternatives

Customer Support

Zoho Desk

Zoho Desk is an AI-powered customer service platform that unifies support conversations across channels into one inbox, with a Zia AI assistant that handles routine tickets autonomously.

3 alternatives

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