Messaging and team collaboration

Real-time or anytime – Chat helps Workspace users connect and collaborate to get things done.

Montage of a Google Chat window between on-site technicians installing wind turbines and various UI elements.

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Made for modern messaging, powered by AI

Google Chat home window displaying all the available direct messages and Spaces.

Chat space for Dan's doughnut crew about the success of the new doughnut flavor.

A Chat space for Dan's doughnut crew in which members are sharing documents and creating tasks.

Stay in the loop

Designed to help you manage the flow of business and personal communication.

Express yourself

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

Get ready for the future

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Stay connected with intelligent features like smart compose, autocorrect, and summarization.

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Built for community and collaboration

Chat space for Project Clover welcoming a new member.

Work better, together

Create a space in Chat to share team updates or collaborate on a project.

Virtual huddle discussing and collaborating remotely.

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Right away or all-day

Huddle with teammates for real-time problem-solving or drop-in collaboration throughout the day.

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Connect at scale

Build community with spaces that can support up to 500K members. Use announcements to keep everyone on the same page.

Work better, together

Create a space in Chat to share team updates or collaborate on a project.

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Right away or all-day

Huddle with teammates for real-time problem-solving or drop-in collaboration throughout the day.

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Connect at scale

Build community with spaces that can support up to 500K members. Use announcements to keep everyone on the same page.

Thoughtfully integrated

All together now

Chat is included with Workspace at no additional cost, and integrates in helpful ways with Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Groups, and more.

Chat window showing integration with Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Groups.

Work that flows

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Enhance your workflow with apps like Asana, Jira, PagerDuty, Workday, and Github. Or build your own no-code Chat apps with Gemini for Workspace and AppSheet.

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Chat interface showing the multiple app integrations: Asana, Jira, PagerDuty, and Github.

Management, simplified

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Configure and deploy Chat from your Workspace admin console – no need for additional software or user authentication.

Workspace Admin console showing the integration available with Chat.

Safe and secure

Collaborate, connect, and share while keeping your data private and secure.

Chat message superimposed with the Google security shield to indicate integrated security.

Built-in security

Benefit from the same phishing and malware detection that protects Gmail users from >99.9% of spam and malicious content.

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

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Intelligent governance

Security policies and protections adjust based on user context to keep users and data safe.

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

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Real-time protection

Prevent sharing of sensitive information with real-time data loss prevention.

Built-in security

Benefit from the same phishing and malware detection that protects Gmail users from >99.9% of spam and malicious content.

Premium feature

Intelligent governance

Security policies and protections adjust based on user context to keep users and data safe.

Premium feature

Real-time protection

Prevent sharing of sensitive information with real-time data loss prevention.

Curious about Chat?

Take a look at our FAQs to learn more.

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

Google Chat is protected by the same anti-spam, anti-phishing, 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 optimized for business chat, team collaboration, and instant messaging. Google Chat is part of the modern Gmail experience, and is available for browser, mobile device, and as a standalone application. Learn more.

Spaces are a feature of Google Chat that allows 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 favorite apps and tools are available in Google Chat with more coming all the time, including Asana, PagerDuty, Jira, GIPHY, Zapier, and many more essential Chat apps for team collaboration. Learn more.

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