Comparison

Gorgias Helpdesk vs Helpwise

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Gorgias Helpdesk

Manage customer support across email, live chat, phone, and social media from a single mobile interface. Streamline ticket management, view customer history, and respond instantly with templates and macros to save time and money.

Highlights
  • Unified inbox for all channels
  • View customer history across channels
  • Respond instantly with templates
  • Use macros for quick answers
  • Support for multiple stores
  • Access customer order details
Features
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The Gorgias mobile application gives you access to a true all-in-one help desk experience while at the office or on-the-go. View and respond to email, live chat, phone, Facebook, Instagram, contact us page through one unified, mobile platform so you can streamline your support tickets, saving you time and money. From our mobile app, you can: Provide Customer Service On Every CRM Channel - Manage conversations from email, live chat, phone, and social in one helpdesk - See the full customer live chat and message history across different channels in one view - Provide support for multiple stores Cut Customer Support Time In Half - Respond instantly with live chat - See customer support details and orders right next to the ticket - Respond in one click using pre-made templates - Use Macros (variables like order status, shipping date, etc.) to pre-fill answers Gorgias is a help desk (help center or customer support) for Ecommerce stores that allows your customer service team to manage all of your support, customer service in one place. Top Shopify and Magento stores use Gorgias to reduce ticket first response time and increase the efficiency of their customer support teams.

About

Helpwise

Streamline team communication by managing emails, SMS, and WhatsApp conversations in a shared inbox. Collaborate with colleagues, assign tasks, and track key metrics to improve customer support efficiency.

Highlights
  • Shared inbox for email, SMS, and WhatsApp
  • Team collaboration tools (tagging, chat)
  • Workload distribution and assignment
  • Performance analytics and reporting
  • Integration with business tools
  • Individual logins for enhanced security
Features
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Make It Easier For Your Team To Manage Customer Conversations. Easily Handle Emails, SMS, and WhatsApp as a team. As a business grows, it becomes a struggle to manage customer, sales or internal emails(billing, hiring) across the company. And, then we make a blunder by sharing email logins among team members. We understand the chaos that it creates because we have been through the same pain during our previous gigs & businesses. So, this is exactly why we built Helpwise - the shared inbox that really works! With SMS and WhatsApp Inbox features, your team members can provide support to tens of thousands of customers by efficiently sharing the workload with each other. Friendly Interface We all love Gmail, Outlook & other awesome email clients. So, we have made sure that Helpwise feels as easy as these common email services. Basically, you won't miss them here. Share Inbox, Not Password Every team member will get own separate login to access same email address. So, no more password sharing. Better security with higher productivity! Collaborate With Team Members Don't shout out loud to clear your doubts before answering an email. Tag, Assign or Chat with your team members within the shared inbox. It is safe to say, Helpwise is part-Shared Inbox, part-Collaboration software. Distribute Work Load Getting 100s of emails every day? Easily share these emails among your team members and reach Inbox Zero faster. Track Every Key Metric Helpwise provides you detailed analytics on your email frequency, response rates & individual performance. So, now that you can measure it, you can easily improve it. Integrate With Business Tools Automate processes & share information across your other business tools. For example, log all your phone calls & texts with the customer within the email thread. Or, fetch order details within your inbox. In the nutshell, Helpwise is a clean, feature-loaded & made-for-business Gmail that we all wish for.

Screenshots

Gorgias Helpdesk4 screens
Helpwise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Helpwise at 2.4 against Gorgias Helpdesk's 1.6. Helpwise also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 3%) and monetization model (free vs freemium). Gorgias Helpdesk's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 7). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Helpwise holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gorgias Helpdesk has 77 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 3% of Gorgias Helpdesk's written reviews are positive against 33% of Helpwise's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gorgias Helpdesk ships an update monthly, Helpwise every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Gorgias Helpdesk versus Helpwise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGorgias HelpdeskHelpwise
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (77 ratings)2.4 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews2.9% of reviews33.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings77 — better7
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGorgias Inc.SLABS Technologies Private Limited

Customer experience

Gorgias Helpdesk

All ratings77 ratings
Positive6.5%
Neutral5.2%
Negative88.3%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive2.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative93.2%

Helpwise

All ratings7 ratings
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Bugs and requests

Gorgias Helpdesk

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Text input cursor jumps around during typing
  • Words get scrambled or autocorrected incorrectly
  • Keyboard inserts random words while typing
  • Unexpected logouts every few hours or days
  • Authentication verification loops that don't resolve
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  • Push notifications not triggering
  • App crashes on login or when opening messages
  • Text field scrolling issues
  • Tickets close unexpectedly when closing app
  • Voice-to-text cuts out after one or two words
  • Keyboard covers text input field
  • iPad app doesn't support landscape mode
  • Face ID login crashes app
  • Slow app performance and responsiveness
  • Login information not saved between sessions
  • Macros not functioning on mobile
  • Email signature not populating automatically

Requested features

14 requests
  • iPad landscape mode orientation support
  • Google Sign-In authentication option
  • Photo upload from phone gallery
  • Working push notifications for new messages
  • Search functionality for tickets and conversations
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  • Easy internal note creation
  • Macro support on mobile
  • Better autocorrect/predictive text handling with toggle option
  • Phone call functionality (previously available)
  • Automatic email signature population
  • Face ID login support
  • Ticket closing functionality from within ticket view
  • Better keyboard management to show text being typed
  • Feature parity with desktop version

Helpwise

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Gorgias Helpdesk

No in-app purchases

None

Helpwise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gorgias Helpdesk free?
Gorgias Helpdesk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Helpwise free?
Helpwise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gorgias Helpdesk or Helpwise?
Helpwise is rated higher. Gorgias Helpdesk averages 1.6 out of 5 from 77 ratings, while Helpwise averages 2.4 from 7 ratings.
Do Gorgias Helpdesk or Helpwise have ads?
Neither Gorgias Helpdesk nor Helpwise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gorgias Helpdesk or Helpwise?
Gorgias Helpdesk ships an update monthly, and Helpwise every 3 weeks. Most recently, Gorgias Helpdesk was updated on October 13, 2026 and Helpwise on October 3, 2026.

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