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Gitter is a chat and networking platform that helps to manage, grow and connect communities through messaging, content and discovery.

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  • Free without limits

    Enjoy free public and private communities with unlimited people, message history and integrations.

  • Simple to create

    Simply create your community and start talking - no need to set up any invitation services.

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    Format your messages just like with your other favorite developer tools.

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Designed for community collaboration

Gitter is designed to make community messaging, collaboration and discovery as smooth and simple as possible. You can easily create, organise and grow your communities, inviting others to join just in one click.

We also provide integrations with GitHub, Trello, Jenkins, Travis CI, Heroku, Sentry, BitBucket, HuBoard, Logentries, Pagerduty & Sprintly. We accept custom webhooks, have an open source repository for integrations as well as a flexible API.

Gitter loves
Chris Nicholson, Deeplearning4j:

We have an engineering team and open source community distributed over several continents, but the conversation lives in one place - and that's Gitter.

Valentin Anastase, Freezing Moon:

Other communication solutions for the projects I’ve been involved in were far from ideal. Switching to Gitter was one of the best decisions I've made and there's no going back now.

Troy McConaghy, BigchainDB developer:

Gitter is the main way people contact us to ask questions about BigchainDB. I guess it just feels more open, immediate and personal.

Krishna Srinivas, Minio:

Gitter is the IRC of the post-IRC era. It has helped us at Minio build and connect with our community really well.

Sam Saccone, Marionette.js Lead:

Gitter has helped to bring the Marionette community together, turning it into a thriving collaborative environment that has been exceedingly beneficial to both our endusers and maintainers.

David Dias, LXJS Conference Organiser:

Gitter was an essential tool, not only for organising LXJS but to create a thriving community amongst our attendees before, during and even after the conference.

Doge, Chief Woofing Officer:

Wow chat. Much awesome.

Loved by our users

Gitter is nothing without the people using it day in and day out.

We asked a few people what Gitter means to them, this is what they had to say. If you love Gitter, Tweet us @gitchat and we'll update these quotes every month.

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Gitter is available in all modern browsers as well as apps for desktops.

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The above Mac installer is a signed version of 1.177 (backed by Safari). For an unsigned 5.0.1 installer (backed by NW.js), click here to download. Mac users on 10.9 or lower, download here.

We also have a sweet little IRC bridge.

The dedicated Gitter Android/iOS apps are no longer recommended and are officially deprecated. For Android/iOS, we bridge all public rooms over to Matrix, so you can use any Matrix client like Element (Android) or Element (iOS) to access those rooms.

Our efforts are focused on the webapp which is the backbone of the mobile/desktop apps but mainly focused on the web experience. There are a number of bugs in these desktop/mobile clients and they spread the Gitter team too thin for us to give them proper attention. The apps are open-source if you want to tackle something particularly annoying to you. (desktop, iOS, Android)