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HelpCrunch – Live Chat, Chatbot & Knowledge Base for Customer Service

The one-stop platform for even stronger customer relations. Bolster your customer support with its live chat, chatbot, and knowledge base software.

By HelpCrunch·Chat·Free
5(6 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months ago
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As of April 2026, HelpCrunch is a WordPress chat plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 20K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Downloads are down 16% this week. Top alternative: Joinchat.

5/56 reviews
2.0K+active installs
20K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016

Overview

Take your customer support to the next level with the HelpCrunch WordPress plugin. Do you think it’s a tough nut to crack? Not at all!

Thanks to our full-house solution, you can:

  • Deliver second-to-none customer service
  • Chat with website visitors in real time
  • Automate routine tasks with chatbot
  • Manage conversations from Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, or Viber by integrating them with HelpCrunch
  • Catch valuable leads’ attention
  • Encourage customer self-service with a multilingual knowledge base

But that’s just scratching the surface. Let’s take a deeper look at HelpCrunch’s advanced toolset.

💬 LIVE CHAT

Being the platform’s flagship feature, live chat helps you solve customers’ queries like a pro, acquire more clients and process requests in the nick of…

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Ratings & Reviews

56 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Easy to install and very nice looking chat widget
by bluex121·4 years ago

To stay closer to my clients, I decided to try the live chat option. I did a quick research on google and found that the software available today can do much more than just chatting with my website audience. It was a real surprise for me that software like Helpcrunch can offer everything I could think of to interact with my clients – chat, emails, popups, help center articles, mobile apps. Some of the platforms I’ve tried cost a pretty penny. Helpcrunch provides everything I need for a very good price. They have a lot of great reviews online and their support is very fast and pleasant. So I decided to stick with them.

Great chat plugin
by Vitalii Kaplia·4 years ago·1 reply

I’m a WP developer and sometimes my clients ask me to find and install live chat plugin for them. After a quick research and a few talks to support reps of different companies I decided to stick with HelpCrunch. The chat itself looks great. There’s a possibility to add help articles to the widget. Pricing is very good. Support guys are simply the best (I did not get a timely response from other vendors).

Neat chat and FAQs in one widget
by slaskii·4 years ago·1 reply

Great piece of software. I tried intercom, zendesk and crisp together with helpcrunch, and the last one came up as an obvious winner for me. It’s really great that I can choose what to display in my widget – chat or knowledge base, or even both. Displaying the knowledge base only becomes very handy when you get a lot of chat requests and cannot handle them.

The only thing I’m missing in helpcrunch is a chatbot, but very friendly support guys promised me it’d be ready this fall.

Easy to use
by zoobok·5 years ago·1 reply

HelpCrunch, many thanks for the plugin and for your service. Keep it up!

Great Alternative to Intercom
by Lewis·6 years ago

I recently moved from Intercom to HelpCrunch and the setup is completely straightforward. One snippet of code and you’re good to go!

Download Trends

Today: 5Yesterday: 4This week: 27Period total: 3K

Compatibility

WordPress3.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.0
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v2.0
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.0

  • We’ve added remastered HelpCrunch widget support! Now you and your customers can enjoy an even better experience with our widget. Here’s how you can update to the remastered widget version.
  • Backward compatibility with the previous version of the widget has been added.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
2.0.11
Last Updated
Dec 3, 2025
WP Requires
3.6+
Tested Up To
6.9.0
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
20K+
Added
Mar 25, 2016
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

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HelpCrunch
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