Free Self-Hosted Zendesk & Help Scout Alternative

FreeScout is the super lightweight and powerful free open source help desk and shared inbox built with PHP (Laravel framework). Now you can enjoy free Zendesk & Help Scout without giving up privacy or locking yourself into a service you don't control. FreeScout is multichannel — it centralizes all customer conversations from various channels in one place. FreeScout has been developed from scratch and does not use any copyrighted Help Scout or Zendesk materials.

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Table of Contents

• Demo
• Features
• Mobile Apps
• Requirements
• Installation
• Images & One-Click Installs
• Cloud Hosted
• Modules
• Tools & Integrations
• News & Updates
• Contributing
• Screenshots

Demo

Live Demo

Features

• Multichannel — email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Slack, Live Chat and more.
• Unlimited support agents, tickets, mailboxes, etc.
• Secure by design.
• 100% Mobile-friendly.
• Multilingual — English, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
• Seamless email integration (via SMTP, IMAP, POP3, etc).
• Modern OAuth authentication for Microsoft Office 365 and Google Workspace.
• Fully supports screen readers (for visually impaired).
• Web installer & updater.
• Starred conversations.
• Push notifications.
• Following conversations.
• Auto replies.
• Internal notes.
• Forwarding / Merging / Moving conversations.
• Phone conversations.
• Sending new conversations to multiple recipients at once.
• Collision detection – notice is shown when two agents open the same conversation.
• Automatic refreshing of the conversations list without the need to reload the page.
• Pasting screenshots from the clipboard into the reply area.
• Flexible notifications for user agents.
• Open tracking.
• Powerful Search.

A full list of features is available here.

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Mobile Apps

Mobile apps support the same functionality and modules as the web version of your FreeScout installation. Both support agents and administrators can use mobile apps.

MacOS Menu Bar App

Requirements

FreeScout is a pure PHP/MySQL application, so it can be easily deployed even on a shared hosting.

• Nginx / Apache / IIS
• PHP 7.1 - 8.x
• MySQL 5.0+ / MariaDB 5.0+ / PostgreSQL

There are no minimum system requirements (CPU / RAM) – FreeScout will run on any system.

Installation

Installation Guide

Images & One-Click Installs

• Docker Image
• Pikapods — Instant open-source apps hosting (Fully Managed)
• Zenith — Instant open-source apps hosting (Fully Managed)
• Softaculous — cPanel, Plesk, ISPmanager, H-Sphere, DirectAdmin, InterWorx
• Fantastico — cPanel, DirectAdmin, ISP Manager, ISP Config
• Cloudron
• Ubuntu — Bash script

More options…

Cloud Hosted

Cloud Hosted FreeScout

Modules

• Official Modules
• Community Modules

Tools & Integrations

• API
• Migrate to FreeScout (from any help desk)
• Zapier
• Make (Integromat)

News & Updates

Don't miss news, updates and new modules!

Email Newsletter | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Telegram | RSS

Contributing

• Support the project by leaving a feedback
• Development Guide
• Todo list
• Translate

Screenshots

Dashboard:

Conversation:

Mailbox connection settings page:

Notifications:

Push notification:

Web installer:

Login page: