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Work better, together

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Sync up in seconds

Message anyone with a Google Account or Gmail address, inside or outside your organisation.

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Express yourself

Let your personality shine through with custom emojis, reactions, inline GIFs and rich text formatting.

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Your work, your way

Keep projects moving with spaces to share files, assign tasks and search your conversation history.

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Build community and culture

Team Chat space

Stay connected

Create a dedicated space for teams of any kind, to share updates or collaborate on a task.

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This feature is available on Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.

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.

Team Chat space

Stay connected

Create a dedicated space for teams of any kind, to share updates or collaborate on a task.

User searching for running communities with the result of an after-work running club
Premium feature

This feature is available on Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.

Discover your passion

Join communities built around shared interests, personal or professional.

A company news announcement space
Premium feature

This feature is available on Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.

Attention, please

Share important updates and keep everyone on the same page with announcements.

Premium feature

This feature is available on Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.

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.

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Communicate with confidence

Create, connect and share, knowing that data in Chat is protected with Google's industry-leading privacy and security.

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Integrated security

Best-in-class phishing and malware detection that blocks more than 99.9% of spam from reaching you.

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This feature is available on Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.

Intelligent governance

Security policies and protection that adjust based on context, helping users stay safe and get work done.

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This feature is available on Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.

Protect sensitive data

Real-time data loss prevention helps protect against inadvertent sharing of sensitive information.

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Integrated security

Best-in-class phishing and malware detection that blocks more than 99.9% of spam from reaching you.

Warning message alerting a user that a sensitive action has been blocked.
Premium feature

This feature is available on Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.

Intelligent governance

Security policies and protection that adjust based on context, helping users stay safe and get work done.

Warning message alerting a user that their message could not be sent due to sensitive content.
Premium feature

This feature is available on Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans.

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 available for use at no cost at chat.google.com and comes as part of your Workspace subscription for professional use. Not a Google Workspace customer yet? Try it at no cost.

  • 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 modern Gmail experience and is available for browser, mobile app and as a standalone desktop application.

  • Spaces are a feature of Google Chat that allow persistent team chat and collaboration, with the ability to share files, assign tasks and review message history. Spaces are perfect for groups of any kind who want to work on a project or communicate around a shared interest.

  • 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 iOS and Android that provide a consistent, feature-rich experience for users on the go.

  • Yes, many of your favourite apps and tools are available for Google Chat with more coming all the time.

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