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Gist Reviews & Product Details

Gist Overview
What is Gist?

Gist is an all-in-one, feature-rich email marketing platform that empowers site owners to bridge the communication gap between them and their audience. The platform offers an email builder that lets users create and broadcast automated emails, upsell and cross-sell emails, consolidate multiple communication channels and provide access to live chat and chatbot widgets. The advanced cross-channel messaging features boost audience engagement and interaction and Gist’s free plan is quite comprehensive.

Company Gist
Year founded 2016
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters Tampa, Florida, United States
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Gist Product Details
Capabilities
AI
API
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
Gist Pros and Cons
Pros
  • Free plan is quite comprehensive
  • Supports advanced cross-channel messaging
  • Offers buildable forms and popups
Cons
  • Clunky chat history functionality
  • Limited integrations
Gist Features
Agent Collaboration
Agent Performance Analytics
Audio and Video Chat
Automated Responses
CRM Integration
Canned Responses
Chat Encryption
Chat History
Chat Routing
Chat Tags
Chat Transcripts
Chat Transfer
Chatbot Integration
Co-Browsing
Custom Branding
Customizable Chat Widgets
Email Integration
Feedback Collection
File Sharing
Mobile Compatibility
Multi-language Support
Offline Messaging
Proactive Chat Invitations
Queue Management
Real-Time Chat
Social Media Integration
Typing Indicators
Visitor Analytics
Visitor Information Dashboard
Visitor Tracking
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Last updated: October 06, 2025
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215 Gist Reviews
4.6 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 24, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Tito C.
Graphic Design And Teacher
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"Amazing Product and Support"
What do you like best about Gist?

Easy to use, really powerfull tools to offer support to all my visitors. It solves my problems to offer support to my visitors when they on my site and blog and I help them to find the content they need. For me has been a life changer because is easy to be in contact and the messenger is compatible for desktop, tablets and mobile devices.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Some features are difficult to find and sometimes tkes some time to undersantad where the function is. But they have a comprehensive and well documented knowledge base so it's easier to find what I need, everythign is organized by topics and with clear instructions. They also an amazing support team ready to help, they answer fast and ahve the solution ready for you, they even will do the procees for you if its possible so you just have to seat and wait while they fix it for you.

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Offering support in my blogs. My visitors have the chance to contact directly with messenger and when I'm not available they can leave me a message or search in my knoledge base. Before Gist I received a lot of emails asking quick questions or let me know that they didn't find an information, the time between emails was really long and my visitors ended goign to another website, now I have the solution fast and ready, so they are happy and keep retuning for more content.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 20, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Kyle N.
Founder
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"So happy this product exists!"
What do you like best about Gist?

I was able to eliminate multiple other software I used to run my business by switching to Gist. I'm very happy that I have everything I need in one easy to use dashboard. It's perfect.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Not much to be honest. There are a few other features I'd love to see such as project management features.

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's giving me easy access to communication with my customers. The live chat and emails that show up in the same inbox is exactly what I needed.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 13, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Ben C.
Founder
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"An absolute gem of a product that has made multiple tools redundent from my marketing and support"
What do you like best about Gist?

Easy to use and the integrations with other plaforms via zapier or webhooks make syncing between different stacks and absolutely breeze

What do you dislike about Gist?

Managing multiple domains under one account has been a bit tricky but the dev team are working on this.

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Live chat with my users has been difficult to crack in the past. Gist has helped to cure all of the issues and has helped open a communications channel with sales prospects and customers in a new way. The mobile app is amazing and easy to use.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 05, 2023
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Jornes S.
Designer
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"Gist is a great customer-engaging solution"
What do you like best about Gist?

Gist has a complete marketing solution that provides a live chat, email marketing solution and chatbot solution that engages customers more with us.

What do you dislike about Gist?

I can only place the chat widget on 1 site unless I upgrade. That's ridiculous.

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Their email marketing solution helps me to save money as I don't need to engage another email marketing platform for the same purpose. I hope the limit could be higher.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 22, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Yasser S. avatar
Yasser S.
Founder
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"free and useful"
What do you like best about Gist?

free, simple to install with one coding line to copy and past

What do you dislike about Gist?

dashboard is a little complicated, Arabic language support need to be much sharpened

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some visitors don't like to hit WhatsApp button or any other cta. So, the chat is more friendly

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 27, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Affordable price for Essential Marketing Tools"
What do you like best about Gist?

8 powerful tools to increase my business. GIST is the perfect tool to handle automation: marketing, support, knowledge base, forms, bots, tracking and much more. Your perfect ally!

What do you dislike about Gist?

I do not dislike anything. GIST has a LOT of functions and it's not always so easy to understand which tool to use for a specific goal. They have many article and videos, but I would suggest to add more documentation for advanced functions and scenarios. The support team is always available and ready to help though.

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was able to automatize the marketing for my business. One platform to handle marketing and support.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 24, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Maryam M.
React Developer
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"It help us to add a very cool feature to our website"
What do you like best about Gist?

I list my favorites: It provides cool features Its friendly and responsible team members Easy to integrate with our project

What do you dislike about Gist?

It is not a dislike and just a suggestion. Maybe it is active now, but I didn't find them. It is excellent and helpful that there were some tutorials about configuring it in different projects.

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used it for live chat

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 20, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Feature rich CRM"
What do you like best about Gist?

Trial emails and customer support messenger with behavioral targeted emails and messages.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Occasional bugs, but they are usually fixed fast by customer support.

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

help desk, targeted emails, customer support

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 17, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Pablo S.
Diseñador Web
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"optimizacion y autatizacion exelente de mi trabajo"
What do you like best about Gist?

La comodidad de tener todas la sherramientas para poder hacer un buen uso del emailmarketing y la facilidad de poder optimizar el trabajo

What do you dislike about Gist?

hasta el momento las funciones me son muy bentajosas y no encuentro un punto negativo

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

La automatizacion y control de lista de mis leads es mucho mas sencillo y hace que ahorre mucho timepo y trabajo.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 18, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Dennis N.
Ceo
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"Fantastic Solution as an Ideal, Full Featured alternative to Intercom"
What do you like best about Gist?

Advanced marketing and automation tools make onboarding and customer success flows incredibly simple and intuitive.

What do you dislike about Gist?

None of it so far! Gist seem to have it pretty much nailed! The 'form' functionality seems a little basic. Currently this works for newsletter type forms, whereas it would be great to have an embeddable form, which has custom fields and info (basically, a contact type form) - this could then come through as a message / chat. The outbound email facility is handy, but it would be good to see replies just come directly to the message list, rather than a direct reply to the mailbox (outside of gist)

What problems is Gist solving and how is that benefiting you?

Marketing automation, onboarding and customer success flows / development for better customer retention and growth.