Connect, create and collaborate
Real-time or any time – collaborate, create and get things done using Google Chat.
Work better, together
Sync up in seconds
Message anyone with a Google Account or Gmail address, inside or outside your organisation.
Express yourself
Let your personality shine through with custom emojis, reactions, inline GIFs and rich text formatting.
Your work, your way
Keep projects moving with spaces to share files, assign tasks and search your conversation history.
Build community and culture
Stay connected
Create a dedicated space for teams of any kind, to share updates or collaborate on a task.
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Discover your passion
Join communities built around shared interests, personal or professional.
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Attention, please
Share important updates and keep everyone on the same page with announcements.
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Work that flows
Deploy powerful business apps like Asana, Jira and PagerDuty, right in Google Chat. Build your own Chat apps with Apps Script or no-code apps and integrations for Chat with Google AppSheet.
Communicate with confidence
Create, connect and share, knowing that data in Chat is protected with Google's industry-leading privacy and security.
Integrated security
Best-in-class phishing and malware detection that blocks more than 99.9% of spam from reaching you.
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Intelligent governance
Security policies and protection that adjust based on context, helping users stay safe and get work done.
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Protect sensitive data
Real-time data loss prevention helps protect against inadvertent sharing of sensitive information.
Curious about Chat?
Take a look at our FAQs to learn more
Google Chat is
Google Chat is protected by the same anti-spam, anti-phishing and anti-malware technology that protects more than 2 billion Gmail inboxes.
Yes. With Google Chat, you can send a direct message to anyone with a Gmail address or Google Account. You can set up group chats with multiple participants or message one-to-one.
Yes, Chat is deeply integrated with the Google Workspace tools that more than 9 million businesses use to get work done. Chat is optimised for business chat, team collaboration and instant messaging. Google Chat is part of the
Chat is a modern application built on Google's latest frameworks for web, mobile and security, and is an essential component of Google Workspace, used by 3 billion people to connect, create and collaborate. Chat builds on Google's longevity and expertise in this space, as well as previous applications, including Google Talk and Hangouts, to deliver a powerful, up-to-date experience that is consistent, expressive and fun for personal and professional users.
Yes, Google Chat provides powerful apps for
Yes, many of your favourite apps and tools are