Free live group chat for your website
For blog owners, shop owners and sports site owners who want their visitors to chat together on their own website.
Still looking for a shoutbox that fits? Embed Speechbox with a code snippet or our WordPress plugin. Keep your community on your site, without sending everyone to another app.
- Free forever
- Try Premium features for 14 days
- No payment details needed
Speechbox started in 2007. Today, Tim Teege runs it as a solo project in Hamburg. Meet the person behind Speechbox
Getting started is easy
Your Speechbox in three steps
From signing up to your first message — set up quickly and right on your website.
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Sign up for free
Create your account and set up your first Speechbox. No payment details needed.
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Add the code
Copy the code into your website — or install our WordPress plugin.
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Chat
Your community chats with you directly on your website.
Features
What you’ll get
Speechbox brings your community together – with flexible embedding and control over who can take part.
- Three ways to embed: inline on your page, as a popup or as a sidebar
- Member accounts with registration and login
- Control who can read and post: open to everyone or restricted to members
- Manual approval: review new members before granting access
- Moderation: manage members, block users and delete messages
- Reply directly to messages with a reference to the original message
- Match your website: customize colors and design
- Emoji and Markdown for expressive, formatted messages
- Spam protection and a configurable profanity filter
- No marketing cookies, no visitor tracking
Easy entry
Keep your community talking on your website
Give your visitors a shared place to chat on your blog, shop or sports site. During a match or live event, you can manage members, block users and delete messages.
Community
You made your website to put something into the world which others like. Talk to them about it there.
Realtime
No need to open another app. Chat right on your website with your visitors.
Enable
You and your website visitors have the same interests. Get talking and elevate each other.
Personal
Handing over your people to huge companies isn’t right for everyone. Stay with each other on your personal website.
Ownership
Be relaxed about the data of your users. It will not leave our servers and will never be analyzed for advertising gains.
Privacy
No marketing cookies, no problem. We don’t profit from your data, we protect it instead.
WordPress plugin
Add Speechbox to WordPress in minutes
Install the Speechbox Chat plugin, connect or create your free account, and your chatbox appears on your WordPress site automatically. No copying code, no template editing, no developer needed.
- Install the plugin
- Connect your Speechbox account
- Choose popup or shortcode display
Opinions
What users had to say
With over 19 years of experience, we’ve made lots of users happy. Here are a few of their voices.
I had to search for a long time, but now I have finally found the perfect shoutbox!
Really great, great service! I am very satisfied with the shoutbox chat.
I have tried many shoutboxes, but this one is really the best! Thanks!
Thank you! Great service, great shoutbox!
I was missing a feature in the shoutbox, and the team added it the same day. Thank you!
I recently ordered the Premium Upgrade, and I am really excited about the real-time feature!
Even the fast support works great here with you. I will definitely recommend you!
So I have not seen a better shoutbox than this one here! Keep it up!
I'm very satisfied with the chat box, keep it up.
Thank you for the quick response to my request! Love the service.
The best shoutbox in the world. It has to be said. Our Speechbox is the highlight of our website.
You guys are really great! Big praise! :)
Over 25,000 Speechboxes are used by millions of people all over the world.
Free forever
Additional features make Speechbox better
You can use a Speechbox chat for free for as long as you like. More great features can be unlocked by getting the Premium Upgrade.
Free
Pay never, use forever
$ 0 USD
per month
- Up to 50 simultaneous participants
- Manual refreshing of messages
- Basic customization features
- Emojis, simple text formatting support
- Spam protection and user banning
- No tracking, no marketing cookies
- Maximum message length of 140 characters
Premium
Make it much better and cancel anytime
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3
USD
$4
per month, billed monthly per month, $36 billed yearly billed yearly · $4 monthly
- Automatic realtime refresh of messages
- Users can upload images
- Up to 200 simultaneous participants
- Maximum message length of 1,000 characters
- See all Premium features
- Advanced customization features
- Emoji, text formatting, custom smileys
- New message notifications: audio and desktop
- Advanced spam protection
- No tracking, no marketing cookies
- Email support
- Access and messaging statistics