Chat on your website

WhatsApp-style chat on your website, without WhatsApp

You like replying to your customers from your phone, fast, just like on WhatsApp. But on your website, a WhatsApp button sends your visitors away, and not all of them want to give you their phone number. Live chat keeps the same simplicity, without those two hurdles.

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What a WhatsApp button does

A WhatsApp button on a website is a link that opens the visitor’s WhatsApp app, on a conversation with your number. It’s simple and free, and for many small businesses, it’s the first thing they try. But it has three limits:

Your visitor leaves your website. They switch to WhatsApp in the middle of their visit, and rarely come back to the page they were looking at.
They need WhatsApp, and have to give you their number. On a computer, or for a simple question, many give up.
Everything gets mixed up. Customers land in the same app as your family and friends, on your personal number, with no way to tell which website or page they came from.

What live chat does

With a live chat like Hooky, a bubble appears at the bottom of your website. Your visitor writes in it, with no app to install, no account and no phone number. You get a notification on your phone, and you reply from the Hooky app, as fast as on WhatsApp.

Your visitor stays on your page, and you see which one they were looking at when they wrote to you.
Your customers stay separate, in a dedicated app, website by website, without your personal number.
If they leave, your reply follows them: if they left their email, it reaches them by email, with a link to pick up the conversation.
Everyone writes in their own language: their messages arrive translated into yours, and your replies into theirs.
You can also reply from your watch, your computer or your tablet, and as a team if you have one.

WhatsApp button or live chat?

Point	WhatsApp button	Hooky chat
The visitor needs	The WhatsApp app and a phone number	Nothing: they write on your page
The visitor stays on your website	No	Yes
Your number is visible	Yes	No
You reply from your phone	Yes	Yes (iPhone, Android, Apple Watch)
Several websites, one inbox	No	Yes
Automatic translation	No	Yes
Price	Free	Free for one site

Add it to your website

One line to paste into your website, or a prompt to give your AI if your site is built with Lovable, Bolt, Claude or ChatGPT. Your tool’s guide tells you exactly where:

LovableOne prompt in Lovable’s chat, in Build mode, then “Publish changes”.BoltOne prompt in Bolt’s chat, then the Publish or Update button.v0One prompt in v0 to add the tag to app/layout.tsx, then “Publish Changes”.CursorOne prompt for Cursor’s Agent, which finds your project’s shared template by itself.ReplitOne prompt for Replit Agent, then publish the app again.FramerThe tag in the site settings, Custom Code section, at the end of <body>.WebflowThe tag in Site settings › Custom code › Footer code (paid plan required).WordPressThe tag in the site footer, with the WPCode plugin or your child theme.ShopifyThe tag at the bottom of your theme’s theme.liquid file, on every page.WixThe tag in Settings › Custom Code, on all pages (Premium plan and connected domain).SquarespaceThe tag in Code Injection, in the Footer (Core plan or higher).ClaudeThe prompt in your conversation with Claude, or Claude Code doing everything, account included.ChatGPTThe prompt in your ChatGPT conversation, or a Codex task on your repository.

When to keep WhatsApp

If your customers already talk to you on WhatsApp, to confirm an appointment or follow an order, keep it for that: that’s where they know you. Your website’s chat is for something else: answering visitors who don’t know you yet, at the moment they have a question. The two live together just fine.

Agencies and freelancersChat on every client website, one inbox, pricing by number of sites.Customer support in your appThe Hooky chat, native in your iPhone or Android app, in three lines of code.Hooky on Apple WatchMessages from your website on your wrist: reply right from the notification, without reaching for your phone.IntegrationsAll thirteen tools, and where to paste Hooky in each.

Your visitors have questions. Answer them from wherever you are.

Free for one site, installed with one prompt. Then just keep your phone in your pocket.