Overview

Stream supports the features you’re used to from apps like Slack, Whatsapp, Telegram etc. Here’s an overview of the features you might want to enable/integrate into your app

Messaging Essentials

The most commonly used chat features are:

• Unread counts
• URL previews: URL previews for your app
• Message attachments: Bring other parts of your app into the chat. like sharing a Strava route on the chat.
• User Presence: Show who is online
• Typing Indicators
• Reactions
• Threads/ Replies
• System messages. A notification style message, like “user John joined the channel”
• Events & Custom events: Send any custom event on the chat channel (pubsub style functionality)

Advanced Features

We also expose many advanced features that might be relevant for your app, here’s a quick overview:

• Campaign API: send large batches of personalized messages to users
• Polls API: Add polls to your chat
• Pending Messages: Extra confirmation step for messages
• Draft Messages: Store drafts of messages, edit them on
• Message reminders: Unread message reminders or
• Location Sharing
• Translations: Translate messages automatically
• Pinning messages: Pin a message to the channel
• Slow mode & Throttling: Key for live events, live shopping etc where message volume can become too high
• Channel invites: Invite a user to a channel (common in dating apps)
• Average Response Time: For marketplaces, track the user’s average response time.
• Dynamic Partitioning: Split a channel based on the number of participants. (Typically used in gaming apps)
• Audit Trails: (track message changes)
• Restricted Message Delivery: A message is only shown to a subset of users on the channel