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Maintained Tested up to 6.7.9 #43 in chatbot

Consolto Video Chat

4-in-1: video chat, appointment scheduling, AI & live chat and forms for Sales, Support and Consultants.

Active installs200+100+ tier
Downloads · 30d571▲ +72% vs prev. 30d
Rating5/544 reviews
Health score52/100Fair
All-time downloads33KSince Jul 2018
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 3.7PHP any
Downloads · 7d141▼ -9.6% week over week
Our verdict

Use with caution

Consolto Video Chat works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 200+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 11 months ago, and scores 52/100 on our health check.

  • Loved by users — 5/5 from 44 reviews
  • Momentum — downloads up 72% vs the previous 30 days
  • Small user base (200+ active installs)
  • Only tested up to WordPress 6.7 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

81624Jul 5Aug 18Oct 2
Yesterday17
Daily average (1y)8
Peak day152Nov 2, 2025
Last 12 months2.8K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Consolto Video Chat stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
chatbot >100 1,480 Best chatbot plugins →
live chat >100 2,368 Best live chat plugins →
video chat #32 815 Best video chat plugins →
video conference #16 100 Best video conference plugins →
videochat #3 17 Best videochat plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 2.7100.0%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 44 reviews

  • 5★97.7%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★2.3%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★0.00%

About Consolto Video Chat

From the official readme · v2.7.9

Description

4-in-1: video chat, appointment scheduling, AI & live chat and forms for Sales, Support and Consultants.

What you’ll get?

Video chat, appointment scheduling, AI & live chat and forms for Sales, Support and Consultants.
Consolto turns your website into a virtual office in minutes and enables: The AI will answer questions and when time is right, it can pass to video-calls, screen sharing, scheduling appointments, text-messaging and chat, whatsapp, Facebook messenger. All within a CRM including payment transfer, site analytics and more…

  • Familiar with the feeling that you send your customers your skype account and they get confused and mixed up? Or a Zoom link that expires?
  • Do you pay too much for marketing and find it hard to convert visitors in your website to customers?
  • Did you find it hard to connect Zoom, Calendly, Intercom and Zapier all together?
  • Do you find it hard to collect money from your clients for online sessions?
  • Are you frustrated that people visit your website and leave no trace?
  • Would you like to provide online-video-call sessions to your clients in a professional manner?
  • Were you looking for a tool to share your screen with site-visitors easily from within your website?
  • Are you looking for a multi-agent video chat solution for your website?
  • Are you looking to answer customers on the go?

** If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re at the right place. **

Major features in Consolto Video Chat Widget include:

  • Video chat directly from within your website. Niether your customers nor you will need to install anything.
  • AI Chatbot that learns from your website and docuemnts in minutes. Answers customers 24/7 including handoff to live agents via chat and video chat or schedule meetings.
  • Dedicated mobile app (iOS and Anroid) and Desktop app (MacOS, Windows) keeps you updated and accessible on the go!
  • Advanced Appointment Scheduling enables your site visitors schedule meetings with you in a simple manner. You can send them invitations as well!
  • ** Unique ** Multi-agent teams provide many 1×1 and group sessions remotely. Excellent for teams of sales-agents, therapists, diatitians, coaches…
  • Comprehensive, real-time text chat, saved for your future needs.
  • Share your screen or view your clients screen as simple as clicking a button
  • Group meetings – add more people to the conversation. Get faster results!
  • Social messaging: whatsapp and facebook messanger embedded in your website.
  • Voice mail – let customers leave voice messages directly from within your website!
  • Call recordings to keep track and be on top of the conversations.
  • Actively start engagement via chat/videochat/audio with people in your website. We made an extra effort for this to be as acceptable as possible by your site-visitors.
  • Inbox: your site visitors will send you messages that will reach your email
  • Receive email, SMS and site notifications upon new chats and webcalls
  • Highly configurable widget!
  • Supports 12 languages: English, Italian, Hebrew, Russian, French, Portugues, Japanese, German, Spanish, Dutch, Turkish

Give it a try. It’s a 2-minute installation
Best installation instructions can be found here: LINK

Conceptual demo:

Important notes:

  • The Consolto Plugin relies on Consolto.com as a means to provide all the above features. This practically means that all plugin content is served by Consolto.com (from within your website).
  • You are more than invited to join us in www.consolto.com and learn more.
  • Terms of Use: https://www.consolto.com/legal/terms-of-use
  • Privacy policy: https://www.consolto.com/legal/privacy

Installation

*** Best installation instructions can be found here: LINK

  1. Register at Best installation instructions can be found here: LINK. You’ll get a script that is assigned only to you in the Widget Center tab. Don’t worry, it never expires.
  2. Upload the plugin to your blog/website.
  3. Activate the plugin.
  4. Go to the “Consolto Plugin” in your wordpress menu.
  5. Paste your script from step #1.
  6. Save Changes.

You’re done!

Frequently asked questions

I’ve installed the plugin but cannot see anything on my website

Check that you’ve installed Consolto by the plugin ONLY (and have not copy-pasted the script such that there are practically two installations) In case you use a caching technology, make sure the site is refreshed. Make sure the Consolto widget is turned “ON” on the Consolto dashboard (should be green in the top menu) In case there is a firewall installed, make sure the Consolto Plugin is whitelisted.

Does this plugin work on any wordpress website

Yes.

What technology does Consolto use?

Consolto uses WebRTC to pass video-calls and audio. WebRTC is known today as the most secured video-chat protocol on the web. In fact, Google is the main supporter of the protocol.

Does this plugin enable multi-agent teams to deliver services from a single website?

Yes. Multi-agents are enabled in our enterprise plan!

Does Consolto have an affiliate / partner program?

We’re starting to roll out such a plan. To apply, please go to: Partners Link LINK

Changelog

= October 30th-2025
New Features:
🔹 Launched Ooni AI – brand new chatbot with RAG capabilities and handoff to live agent.
🔹 Launched a companion desktop application.
🔹 Launched scheduling and meeting rooms in the mobile application.
🔹 Improved team sharing capabilities: Team chat, control over privacy modes, widget modes…

= June 8th-2025
New Features:
🔹 💳 Improved mobile application
🔹 🎉 Delete messages and conversations
🔹 🌐 New UI for more smooth customer experience.

= June 4th-2024
New Features:
🔹 💳 Pay-per-booking: Charge customers when they book meetings with you. Charge, book, meet!
🔹 🎉 Send emails from Consolto directly!
🔹 🌐 Set available-hours and modify based on timezone!
🔹 📣 Flexible meeting duration letting you set the meeting length as you like.

= April 7th-2024
New Features:
🔹 📣 Group video meetings with up to 24 attendees (vs. 6 before)
🔹 🎉 Improved user-interface across all devices and screen-sizes.
🔹 💬 Improved Group-chat for group meetings!
🔹 🌐 Custom-buttom on website triggers – improved!

= January 10th-2024
New Feature:
🔹 📣 Video-style widget for increased website conversions and a warm welcome!
🔹 💬 Improved audio/video in calls with noise-reduction.
🔹 🌐 SMTP emails improvement for full-white labeling towards customers.

= November 19th-2023
New Feature:
🔹 💳 Stripe Integration: Receive payments seamlessly during any chat or video call!
🔹 💬 New backoffice Look&Feel
🔹 🌐 Custom Branding: Each agent and every brand can now personalize with multiple widgets and skins.
🔹 🔗 CNAME for ClickNTalk: Personalize your URLs in our CNAME Beta release.
🔹 📋 Leads Tab: All your contacts, neatly organized.
🔹 🔒 Share private data securely within your team.

= June 4th-2023
🔹 🎉 New Feature: Group Rooms – Launch of unique spaces for hosting pre-scheduled meetings with customers and agents.
🔹 💬 New Feature: Group Chat – Introduction of real-time chat feature on the website for dynamic customer interactions. All group chats that happen during calls are saved for future reference.
🔹 💌 Upgrade: Improved Emails – Emails have been redesigned for better readability and interaction.
🔹 📱 Fix: Auto-Zoom on iOS – Resolved the auto-zoom issue on iOS for a smoother and more comfortable user experience.

= April 16th-2023
📣 Exciting news! We’ve launched Group Scheduling! 🥳🗓️
Now, Consolto takes care of ALL your appointment needs:
🔹 Customers can book time slots 🕑
🔹 Send invitations from your backoffice 💌
🔹 Manage your schedule in the Appointment Center 📅
🔹 Sync with your Google Calendar 📆, and you’re good to go! 🚀
🔹 Enjoy group capabilities 👥
🔹 Experience seamless Consolto video chat 📹
Plus, email reminders 📧 will ensure you and your customers never miss a meeting!

Read more about our group capabilities here

= March-12th-2023
* Added background blur and back-image during video calls. Be there, from everywhere.
* Added group appointment scheduling.
* Added direct action links from appointment scheduling emails (easy beazy to accept a meeting)
* We are now HIPAA compliant
* Improved call-recordings page – send call-recordings to your customers in a branded manner
* Frontend agent-status API – deep integration with your website.

= December-25th-2022
* Entirely new Appointment-scheduling user experience.

= November-3rd-2022
* Group video conferencing added
* Improved conferencing design including gallery mode, voice widget and more

= September-21st-2022
* New mobile app update with fixed bugs and improved flows:
ios: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/consolto-video-chat/id1584996493
android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.consolto.app
* Improved security.
* Improved notification emails.
* Fixed chat embedded iframe bug.

= August-1st-2022
* SMTP email branding letting you send reminder emails from your domain.
* Customer-side language selector.
* Ability to control widget popup on mobile devices.
* New searchable dropdowns including timezone picker.
* Improvements to the dynamic-forms.
* Smaller js bundle size take-1. Soon an even smaller size.

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

Clear and Simple one-click video chat straight out of your website.
Clear and Simple one-click video chat straight out of your website.
What is Consolto?
What is Consolto?
Chat widget and a simple chat center that helps you keep track of your video and text conversations.
Chat widget and a simple chat center that helps you keep track of your video and text…
Appointment scheduling widget and clear appointment center to help you be on top of meetings.
Appointment scheduling widget and clear appointment center to help you be on top of…
Clear video, multi-participant. Designed to win!
Clear video, multi-participant. Designed to win!

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FAQ

Consolto Video Chat: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 3, 2026

Is Consolto Video Chat free?

Yes. Consolto Video Chat is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Consolto Video Chat safe to use in 2026?

Consolto Video Chat works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. It runs on 200+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 11 months ago, and scores 52/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Consolto Video Chat?

Consolto Video Chat is active on 200+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 33,024 times since it launched in July 2018. It was downloaded 571 times in the last 30 days.

Does Consolto Video Chat work with WordPress 7.1?

Consolto Video Chat is officially tested up to WordPress 6.7.9, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

When was Consolto Video Chat last updated?

The latest version, 2.7.9, was released on November 2, 2025 (11 months ago).

Who makes Consolto Video Chat?

Consolto Video Chat is developed and maintained by iharel.

What are the best alternatives to Consolto Video Chat?

The most popular alternatives to Consolto Video Chat are AI Agent by SiteGround (1M+ installs), AI Engine (90K+ installs) and Tidio (70K+ installs).

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