Chat Bundle
Chat and Chat Calls together — messages, rooms, and voice and video calling, all on your own server.
$135 instead of $160 bought separately, and $50 every six months instead of $60. The same two applications, the same files, one purchase.
What you get
| Application | What it does | On its own |
|---|---|---|
| Chat | A launcher on every page. Private messages, public rooms, invite-only private rooms, typing indicators, images and files, moderation. | $95 + $35/6mo |
| Chat Calls | Voice and video calling from any one-to-one conversation. Peer to peer, never recorded, never through your server. | $65 + $25/6mo |
Also included: a ready-made coturn setup for calls, which is the part most people would otherwise spend an afternoon on.
Why they are sold together
Calls are an add-on to Chat and do nothing without it. If you want calling at all, you need both — so this is simply the cheaper way to buy them.
If you only want text chat, buy Chat on its own. Nothing here is held back from it.
Requirements
- Invision Community 5
- Realtime, with a current gateway. The gateway is free and has its own listing.
- HTTPS, for calls — browsers refuse microphone and camera access on an insecure page.
- A TURN server for calls. The setup is included and takes about ten minutes.
Worth knowing before you buy
- Calling is one to one in this version. Group calling needs a different piece of server software with real processing cost, and is planned rather than promised.
- Chat needs a live connection. There is no polling fallback, deliberately — a chat that refreshes every thirty seconds is a slow forum, not a chat. Without Realtime connected the launcher does not appear at all.
- Nothing leaves your server. No third-party chat service, no per-message pricing, no monthly bill that grows with your community.
What's New in Version 1.0.1
Released
Refreshed to the current components. The bundle now contains Chat 1.0.2 and Chat Calls 1.0.2.
The change worth knowing about is in Chat Calls: the relay can now listen on port 5349 with TLS, so members on networks that block UDP outright — corporate guest wifi, hotels, some mobile carriers — can place calls at all. The included coturn kit and setup guide cover it, and ship a script that handles the two details that otherwise leave TLS silently switched off.
If you have not set up calls yet, just follow the guide as written. If you already have, see the TURN over TLS section — it is optional, but it is the difference between calls working for most people and calls working.
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