🚀 v1.0.0 — Stable Release

Customer conversations
with a soul.

Free & open-source live chat + CRM you fully own.
Self-hosted, privacy-first, RTL-ready — with AI you bring yourself.

♾️ Unlimited operators 🔒 No forced cloud calls 🤖 BYOR AI included 🌍 Persian · Arabic · English

Everything the paid tools charge for — free.

Forked from Chatwoot v4.17 with a pet-themed soul and zero locked features.

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Omnichannel inbox

Website chat, email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, SMS — unified in one dashboard.

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BYOR AI

Connect any OpenAI-compatible router: OpenRouter, LiteLLM, OmniRoute, Ollama, Groq. Your keys stay in your env.

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Native RAG

Feed your help-center articles to your own AI agent via pgvector. Grounded answers, no external SaaS.

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Theme-driven widget

theme.json controls icon, colors, motion, sounds, position and pet-mode. 8 default mascots included.

Built for how you actually work.

Whether you're a solo founder, a support team, or a developer — Whisker fits.

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Support teams

Unified inbox, collision detection, CSAT, SLAs, macros — everything your agents need without per-seat fees.

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Sales & CRM

Deals pipeline, companies, tasks, custom attributes. Turn conversations into revenue — all data stays yours.

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Developers

Full API, webhooks, custom channels, flow builder. Extend it however you want — it's your code.

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Persian & Arabic businesses

First-class RTL, Vazirmatn typography, right-to-left dashboard and widget. Not an afterthought — a feature.

Your team's friendly companion.

Pawly is a floating Tauri mascot that sits on your desktop and keeps your team in the loop.

  • 🔔 Real-time notifications on new conversations
  • ⚡ One-click jump to any open inbox
  • 🐾 Animated mascot with personality
  • 🖥️ Windows, macOS & Linux
Download Pawly ↗

Pawly — your Whisker pet

Your data. Your server. One command.

# production stack — rails + sidekiq + postgres(pgvector) + redis
$ git clone https://github.com/maddixmhn/Whisker whisker
$ cd whisker
$ cp .env.example .env     # set SECRET_KEY_BASE
$ docker compose -f docker-compose.production.yaml up --build -d
🔒 No telemetry Zero phone-home. Your logs stay on your machine.
♾️ No per-seat pricing Unlimited operators, unlimited conversations. MIT licensed.
🔌 BYOR AI Bring your own router. OpenRouter, Ollama, Groq — you choose.

Built by the community, for the community.

Whisker is forked from Chatwoot v4.17 and actively maintained as a free, open-source alternative. No venture capital, no enterprise lock-in — just code that works.

How to contribute

Fork the repo, create a feature branch, and open a PR against develop. We follow conventional commits (feat(scope): ...). No CI required — we review manually and test locally. Every contribution matters.

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Maddix Mhn
Full Stack Developer — Creator of Whisker