The Chanty Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Chanty in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Chanty
The Insider’s Guide
Team chat with built-in tasks, calls and AI agents
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among team communication apps, read from Chanty’s own pages.
Made by Chanty, Inc. · checked Oct 6, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Chanty’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Chanty’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.8
GPA, above 21 of the 33 other team communication apps we grade
Chanty is a team chat app that combines public and private conversations, threads and voice messages with audio and video calls, screen sharing and a built-in task manager with a kanban board. Its site now positions it as a workspace where AI agents take part in chats alongside employees. The free plan covers up to 5 team members, and the Business plan is priced per user.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Chanty, taken from its own pages and our grades.
- 1
Best for team chat with tasks built in
Chanty is team chat with a to-do list inside it: turn any message into a task, give it a due date and track the lot on a kanban board.
- 2
Paid plans start at $3 a month for each person
As its pricing page puts it: $3 per user / month, billed annually.
- 3
There is a free plan
Up to 5 team members, unlimited searchable history, one-on-one audio and video calls, built-in task management, 20 GB of file storage per team and up to 10 integrations.
- 4
It runs on 6 platforms
Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
- 5
Conversations and threads
Public, private and one-on-one conversations with threads, @mentions, pins, code snippets, voice messages, and scheduled and disappearing messages.
- 6
Audio and video calls
One-on-one calls are on the free plan; group audio and video calls with screen sharing come with Business. The site cites support for up to 1,000 video participants.
- 7
Built-in task manager
Create a task from scratch or turn any message into one, then assign it, set a due date and priority, and filter tasks by status, date or person.
- 8
A 2.8 GPA, above 21 of 33
That is against the other team communication apps we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
Keep it
To replace Chanty you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
Chanty at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from $3 per user / month, billed annually
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- None stated
- Runs on
- Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android
- Made by
- Chanty, Inc.
- Category
- Team Communication
- Our grade
- 2.8 GPA, good
The report card
Best for team chat with tasks built in
Chanty is team chat with a to-do list inside it: turn any message into a task, give it a due date and track the lot on a kanban board. Business is $3 a user a month, with group calls and SSO included. But the free plan stops at 5 members, there's no trial of Business, only a money-back guarantee, and SAML, SCIM and the API are Enterprise only, priced on request.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B | Business is $3 a user a month billed annually, or $4 monthly, which sits in the cheapest quarter of team chat and well under the $7 the category typically starts at. It isn't a stripped plan either: group calls, screen sharing, roles, SSO and 2FA are in, plus 3 guest seats per member. |
| Free plan and trial | C | Free stops at 5 team members, which most teams walk straight into. What's inside: unlimited searchable history, one-on-one calls, the task manager, up to 10 integrations. The 20 GB of file storage is shared by the whole team. |
| Features | B | On Business it does the full chat job: public, private and one-on-one conversations with threads, voice and scheduled messages, group audio and video calls with screen sharing. Tasks and the kanban board come as well. SAML, SCIM, analytics and the API are Enterprise-only, priced on request. |
| Ease of use | C | No App Store rating on record to go by. And there's a workspace to stand up first: conversations to make, people to invite, roles to hand out and up to 10 integrations to wire in before it's doing anything for you. |
| Platforms and integrations | A | Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android, the lot. It connects to Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, Trello, Asana, Jira and Google Calendar, with Zapier for the rest. The one catch: the API is listed under Enterprise only. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Chanty is for
- Fits if you're five or fewer and want free chat that keeps every message searchable
- Works for teams that want tasks and a kanban board inside the chat app
Who it is not for
- Tight if you're a team of six or more and not paying, as the Free plan stops at 5 members
- Skip it if you want to try Business first, since no free trial is advertised, only a 14-day money-back guarantee
- Not for you if you need SAML, SCIM or the API without a sales call, because they're listed under Enterprise only
- Watch out: free storage is 20 GB for the whole team, and group calls and screen sharing need Business
Good to know
Good for
- Teams of up to 5 that want free chat with unlimited searchable history
- Teams that want tasks and a kanban board inside their chat app
- Nonprofits and schools, which are offered 50% off
Worth knowing
- The Free plan is limited to 5 team members, with 20 GB of file storage shared by the whole team.
- Group audio and video calls and screen sharing need the Business plan; Free covers one-on-one calls only.
- SAML, SCIM, analytics, the enterprise API and AI compatibility are listed only under Enterprise, which is priced on request.
- No free trial of Business is advertised; there is a 14-day money-back guarantee after the first payment.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$3
A month to start, for each person. There is a free plan too
Chanty has a free plan. Paid plans start at $3 per user / month, billed annually.
Free
$0
Up to 5 team members, unlimited searchable history, one-on-one audio and video calls, task management, 20 GB of storage per team and up to 10 integrations.
Business
$3
per user / month, billed annually ($4 billed monthly)
Group audio and video calls, screen sharing, task boards, 20 GB of storage per user, roles and permissions, SSO and 2FA, and 3 free guest seats per member.
Enterprise
Custom
White labeling, SAML and SCIM, analytics and reporting, an enterprise API, data residency in the US, EU or APAC, and an on-premise option.
The free plan
Up to 5 team members, unlimited searchable history, one-on-one audio and video calls, built-in task management, 20 GB of file storage per team and up to 10 integrations.
Read from chanty.com on Oct 6, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
25% less with annual billing
Chanty Business costs $3 per user / month billed annually against $4 per user billed monthly.
Stated on chanty.comNonprofit
50% off for nonprofits and education
The pricing page advertises a 50% discount for registered nonprofit organizations and educational institutions, claimed by contacting Chanty after creating a team space.
Stated on chanty.com
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
6
Places it runs: Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android
Team chat with built-in tasks, calls and AI agents. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: tasks, kanban boards, AI agents, team chat, video calls, file sharing.
Tasks and the kanban board come as well.
- Conversations and threads
- Public, private and one-on-one conversations with threads, @mentions, pins, code snippets, voice messages, and scheduled and disappearing messages.
- Audio and video calls
- One-on-one calls are on the free plan; group audio and video calls with screen sharing come with Business. The site cites support for up to 1,000 video participants.
- Built-in task manager
- Create a task from scratch or turn any message into one, then assign it, set a due date and priority, and filter tasks by status, date or person.
- Kanban board view
- Tasks can be switched to a kanban board view, each with a due date, status and priority, and a task can be discussed in its related conversation.
- AI agents in chat
- Agents can be added to chats and mentioned like a teammate, with per-role limits on who they answer to and a log of their actions. Pricing lists AI compatibility under Enterprise.
- Guests, roles and permissions
- Business includes 3 free single-conversation guest seats per paid member, customizable roles and permissions, and data retention policies.
Where it runs
- Web
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
- iOS
- Android
What it works with
- Zapier
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- GitHub
- Trello
- Asana
- Jira
- Google Calendar
Who makes Chanty
Chanty, Inc. makes the Chanty team chat app. It sells paid subscriptions on top of a free plan, and its founder describes the company as bootstrapped.
- Founded
- 2017chanty.com
- Based
- New York, NY, USA (the postal address in its privacy policy)chanty.com
- Ownership
- Privately held. The product is owned and operated by Chanty, Inc., a company incorporated in the United States, according to its terms of use. Its founder wrote in 2021 that it has no outside investors.chanty.com
- Funding
- Bootstrapped, in the company's own words: founder Dmytro Okunyev wrote on its blog in June 2021 that he decided to keep Chanty bootstrapped and that the startup works without outside investors.chanty.com
- Founders and leaders
- Dmytro Okunyev, Founderchanty.com
- Partner program
- Partner program for resellers and for people who refer Chanty to their network. Pays a commission on sales; the page says the basic offer starts from 30% per paid subscription.chanty.com
Read on Oct 6, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports. What is not stated there is left out.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
21/33
Other team communication apps it is graded above
Chanty's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 21 of the 33 other team communication apps we grade, and level with 7.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 15 of 33) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $3 a month for each person, against a middle price of $7 for the category: 5 of the 28 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 34 team communication apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Chanty’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 24 of 33
- CFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 33
- BFeaturesAbove 26 of 33
- CEase of useAbove 6 of 33
- APlatforms and integrationsAbove 15 of 33
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 31 team communication apps. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Chanty is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
Keep it
To replace Chanty you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $36 a year.
What you could make
- Tasks and kanban boards: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- Chat that a whole team counts on staying up.
- Video calls.
- An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- Storing and serving files for other people.
- Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- It plugs into other products, Zapier, Google Drive and Dropbox among them.
- What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Chanty’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Slack, Pumble, Flock, Microsoft Teams and Zoho Cliq
The 5 tools Chanty is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.8GPA
Slack
Free plan · from $7.25/mo
Channel-based team messaging with huddles, workflows and AI.
- Chanty also covers tasks, kanban boards and AI agents.
- Slack also covers workflow automation and documents.
- 3.6GPA
Pumble
Free plan · from $2.49/mo
Team chat with unlimited message history on the free plan.
- Chanty also covers tasks, kanban boards and AI agents.
- 2.4GPA
Flock
Free plan · from $4.50/mo
Team messenger with channels, video calls and shared to-dos.
- Chanty also covers kanban boards and AI agents.
- 3.0GPA
Microsoft Teams
Free plan · from $4.00/mo
Chat, video meetings and calling tied into Microsoft 365.
- Only Chanty lists a Linux app.
- Chanty also covers tasks, kanban boards and AI agents.
- Microsoft Teams also covers transcription, noise cancellation and whiteboard.
- 3.4GPA
Zoho Cliq
Free plan · from $16.20/mo
Team chat, calls and meetings from the Zoho suite.
- Chanty also covers tasks, kanban boards and AI agents.
- Zoho Cliq also covers whiteboard and workflow automation.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
11
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Chanty free?
Chanty has a free plan. Up to 5 team members, unlimited searchable history, one-on-one audio and video calls, built-in task management, 20 GB of file storage per team and up to 10 integrations.
How much does Chanty cost?
Chanty lists 3 plans. Free: $0.
What platforms does Chanty work on?
Chanty is available on Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
Does Chanty offer any discounts?
Chanty publicly lists the following: 25% less with annual billing; 50% off for nonprofits and education.
Is Chanty open source?
Chanty is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 6, 2026.
What does Chanty integrate with?
Chanty's listing names Zapier, Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub, Trello, Asana, Jira and Google Calendar.
Who makes Chanty?
Chanty is made by a company of the same name. The product is owned and operated by Chanty, Inc., a company incorporated in the United States, according to its terms of use.
What are the alternatives to Chanty?
The closest alternatives to Chanty in our directory are Slack, Pumble, Flock, Microsoft Teams and Zoho Cliq.
How does Chanty compare with other team communication apps?
Chanty's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 21 of the 33 other team communication apps we grade, and level with 7.
Is Chanty good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Chanty B for value for money. Its paid plans start at $3 a month for each person, against a middle price of $7 for the category: 5 of the 28 others that charge start lower.
Could I make my own version of Chanty?
To replace Chanty you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Chanty’s own pages on Oct 6, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 10, 2026. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Chanty's own pages on 6 October 2026. Also tested with a demo account on 2026-05-07.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Chanty, Inc. Prices change, so check chanty.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
3,189
tools graded
94
categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Chanty, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/chanty
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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Choosing software? Every tool graded, every price dated.
Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Chanty’s pages, its app-store listings and public reviews said on the dates shown. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Chanty is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by Chanty, Inc. Prices and plans change: check chanty.com before you buy.