Meet RavenA simple chat app for teams

Calm by design. Open source, with no per-user pricing.

One line about the product.

Easy from the first hello

Work chat is already pretty familiar. You send messages, make channels, share files, reply to something, or start a thread when the conversation gets bigger. Raven keeps those things exactly as straightforward as they sound. Nothing surprising, and that’s kind of the point.

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Scrolling Raven's channel list on a phone

Better together

Your work already lives across different apps. Raven brings the important bits into the conversation - an approval from ERPNext, a leave update from HR, a CRM alert, a Helpdesk issue, or something from a tool you built yourself.

Connect through APIs, webhooks and extensions. Frappe apps can go even deeper: share documents, trigger alerts, take workflow actions, create issues from messages, sync leave status and manage channels automatically.

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An unkindness of Ravens. A surprisingly kind pricing model.

No seats. No licences for every person. No doing the math again every time someone joins. Raven has no per-user pricing - you pay for the infrastructure you use, not for every person who joins.

Team size12 people

1 server, everyone on it

$0per person

Adding person 13: +$0

Other chat apps

$105.00/ mo

Adding person 13: +$8.75

Other chat apps based on a typical $8.75 per user, per month plan. Raven is billed by server usage on Frappe Cloud.

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Based on a true story

One quiet teammate, one loud bill

Raven started with a pretty small observation. We were using Slack at the time, and one person on the team barely used it - but we were still paying for another seat every month. It made us question why work chat had to be priced per person in the first place. And once we started questioning that, we started questioning the product too. Could it be simpler and feel like a piece of craft? More delightful to use? Could it work naturally with ERPNext and the other tools we were already using? So, as we tend to do at Frappe, we decided to build our own.

Nikhil Kothari

Director of Products, Frappe

Turns out, teams like simple

We moved from Google Chat to Raven a while back and never regretted it.

Raffael Meyer

CEO, ALYF GmbH

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Before you decide

Is Raven free?

Yes. Raven is open source under the AGPL licence. Self-host it on your own servers at no cost, or run it on Frappe Cloud and pay for the site rather than the people on it.

What does it cost on Frappe Cloud?

You pay for the site: storage, compute and region. There is no per-user line on the bill, so fifty people cost the same as five. See pricing.

Is there a limit on users or channels?

No. Add everyone. Channels, threads, direct messages, polls and message history come with every site, with no tiers to unlock.

Can we export our data?

Yes. Everything lives in your own Frappe site's database. Export messages, files and channels whenever you like, or take a full backup. Nothing is held back behind a plan.

What does Raven integrate with?

ERPNext, Frappe HR, Frappe CRM and Helpdesk out of the box, and any other Frappe app on the same site. Everything else connects through APIs, webhooks and bots. Explore integrations.

Does Frappe use Raven?

Every day. Raven is where Frappe’s own team talks, from engineering to support, and most of what you see on this page came out of using it ourselves. Read how Frappe uses Raven.

How do we move from Slack?

Start a Raven site, invite the team and recreate your channels. Most teams are talking in Raven within a day. If you have years of history to bring across, talk to us.

How is Raven different from Slack?

Raven is open source, runs on your own site, has no per-user pricing, and works natively with ERPNext and Frappe HR. Slack is none of those things. Read the full comparison.

Can Raven replace WhatsApp groups at work?

Yes, and it is built for it: channels instead of groups, threads, polls, file sharing and search, on desktop and mobile, without mixing work into your personal chats. Raven vs WhatsApp.

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