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ForgeChat

Your own WhatsApp Business inbox — running on your own server.

ForgeChat is a free, self-hostable dashboard for the official Meta WhatsApp Cloud API. You run it on your own machine or server, connect your own WhatsApp Business credentials, and manage your messaging from the browser — so your conversations and contact data stay on infrastructure you control.

What it does

• Chat history viewer — browse the full conversation timeline for each WhatsApp number.
• Multi-media messaging — send and receive images, video, documents, and audio.
• Template builder — create WhatsApp message templates and track their Meta approval status.
• Basic automation — reply automatically when an incoming message matches a keyword.
• Broadcasts — send a message to a list of recipients at once.

Start here

New to ForgeChat? Begin with Installation, then connect your number in WhatsApp Business API / Meta Setup.

All pages

• Getting Started: Installation
• Configuration & Environment Variables
• WhatsApp Business API / Meta Setup
• Using the Dashboard
• Template Builder
• Basic Automation
• FAQ
• Troubleshooting
• Contributing
• Security

License

ForgeChat is fair-code distributed under the Sustainable Use License — free for your own business, personal, and non-commercial use; reselling or paid hosting as a service is not permitted without permission. Forgemind AI is a trademark of Forgemind Techhub LLP and is not granted by the license.

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See also: Installation • Using the Dashboard • FAQ