Cloud helpdesk with ticketing, automation and a free tier, built in Chennai.
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Free plan
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Free plan · 19 of 69 in helpdesk software
App Advisor lists 19 helpdesk software products with free plan, out of 69 in the category. 6 are made in India, 19 have a free plan and 17 offer a free trial. Most compared right now: Freshdesk, Zoho Desk, Help Scout.
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Cloud helpdesk with ticketing, automation and a free tier, built in Chennai.
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Free plan
Context-aware helpdesk with multichannel ticketing.
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Free plan
Email-based customer support.
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Free plan
Customer service in HubSpot.
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Free plan
Enterprise customer service.
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Free · paid from $25/user/mo
IT and business service desk.
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Free plan
Gmail-based helpdesk built in Bengaluru.
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Free plan
Helpdesk with live chat and call centre.
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Free plan
Open-source helpdesk built in Delhi.
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Free plan
Open-source ticketing.
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Free plan
Helpdesk for Microsoft Teams built in Chennai.
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Free plan
Free open-source helpdesk.
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Free
Open-source helpdesk.
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Free plan
Chat and helpdesk for startups.
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Free plan
Live chat and AI chatbots.
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Free plan
Open-source PBX.
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Free
Business phone system.
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Free plan
Shared inbox from Zoho.
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Free plan
Shared-inbox ticketing tool with a free single-user plan, live chat and knowledge base add-ons.
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Free plan
Before you buy
A permanently free tier with hard limits; a free trial that expires; a free plan for a single user that breaks the moment a second person joins; or open-source software that is free to licence but costs money to host and maintain. Establish which one you are being offered before you build a process on it.
Free tiers are limited by the thing you will run out of first — invoices per month, contacts, users, storage, or the one feature your workflow depends on. Find that number before you migrate data in, because migrating out later is the expensive part.
The cost of a free plan is switching cost. Before committing, export everything and look at what you get. If the export is a PDF rather than structured data, treat the product as harder to leave than it appears.
FAQs
19 products on App Advisor match. The most compared are Freshdesk, Zoho Desk, Help Scout. 6 are built in India, which usually means GST, TDS and statutory updates ship as routine releases and support runs in your timezone. Every listing shows the vendor's own published pricing.
No. App Advisor is free for buyers and takes no payment for ranking. Products are ordered by how much buyers compare them and by our rating, never by what a vendor pays.
The list is generated from our live catalogue, so it changes as products, pricing and free plans change. Pricing shown is the vendor's own published figure — always confirm current terms directly before you buy.
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