# Live Chat & Conversational Support Software

> A field guide to the live chat and conversational customer engagement market through eight companies that each solved the same corner-of-the-screen box a different way: tawk.to's free-forever widget, LiveHelpNow's US help desk, Quality Unit's bootstrapped LiveAgent, HelpCrunch and Gist's all-in-one bundles, REVE Chat's telecom-rooted omnichannel platform, WATI's WhatsApp Business API automation, and Qualified's Salesforce-native Piper AI SDR. The through-line: chat moved from answering support tickets to generating revenue.

## Achievements

- tawk.to became the world's most widely used live chat app, with 2.2M+ subscribers and 20%+ market share, on a free-forever model.
- Quality Unit bootstrapped LiveAgent to 30K+ customers and an estimated eight-figure ARR without major venture funding.
- WATI grew to 6,000+ brands across 78 countries on the WhatsApp Business API and raised $23M from Tiger Global and Shopify.
- Qualified reached 400% year-over-year revenue growth, raised roughly $163M, and was acquired by Salesforce in 2025.
- REVE Chat built an omnichannel engagement platform out of REVE Systems' telecom and VoIP heritage.

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Salesforce signs a definitive agreement to acquire Qualified, deepening AI-SDR integration into its ecosystem.
- **2024** — Qualified launches Piper, positioning an AI SDR as the default first responder on B2B websites.

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Last updated: 2026-08-07