Relay is the calm, fast, beautifully restrained team chat for product teams who care about craft. Channels, threads, search — done right.
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Why teams use Relay
Relay removes the noise of legacy chat tools so your team can think clearly, decide quickly, and ship more often.
Side-by-side threads keep deep conversations from drowning out the channel.
Find a message, file, or person in milliseconds. Filters that respect your context.
Smart muting and grouped activity. Quiet by default, loud when it matters.
Optimistic everything. Keyboard-first. No spinners between you and your team.
Subtle indicators, focus mode, and typing signals that don't feel like surveillance.
Switch contexts without losing state. Threads stay where you left them.
Built for craft
From the way messages group together, to the typing indicator that knows when to disappear, to the keyboard shortcuts you'll never have to look up — Relay is a chat tool engineered like a product, not a feature dump.
Loved by teams
“Relay finally got chat right. Threads stay where you left them and the keyboard shortcuts are addictive.”
“We replaced two tools with Relay in a week. The thing actually feels fast — like, desktop-app fast.”
“Calm by default, loud when it matters. The notification model is exactly what a busy team needs.”
How Relay compares
Relay is not trying to be every chat product at once. It is designed for focused teams that want collaboration to stay fast, searchable, and calm.
Focused product teams
A calm workspace for teams that want channels, threads, search, and decisions to feel tidy by default.
Small to mid-sized teams that care about speed, craft, and lower-noise collaboration.
Quiet, intentional, product-first
Channels with side-panel threads and fast workspace navigation
Broad workplace communication
A mature communication hub with a large ecosystem, deep integrations, and broad enterprise adoption.
Organizations that need a widely adopted platform with extensive app and admin coverage.
Flexible, familiar, integration-heavy
Channels, DMs, huddles, apps, and workflow automation
Community-first real-time chat
A real-time conversation platform shaped around communities, voice rooms, and persistent social spaces.
Communities, creators, gaming groups, and teams that prioritize always-on voice and social presence.
Lively, social, community-led
Servers, channels, voice rooms, roles, and community moderation
Pricing
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