Ably Examples: Discover our features and their use cases

Building with Ably unlocks powerful realtime features. From Avatar Stacks to Live Cursors, you can deliver live chat, multiplayer collaboration features, and more.

Powerful features to support rich live-chat

Implementing emoji reactions for live chat

Ably provides simple APIs to help you build and add emoji reactions to your chat application, allowing users to react to messages in realtime.

How to implement a typing awareness indicator

Discover how to add a realtime typing indicator to your live chat, or other collaborative experiences, using Ably APIs and SDKs.

Chat Admin Privileges

Ably provides simple APIs to help you give app users different capabilities, such as moderator privileges to delete inappropriate content in a chat room.

Collaborative features for multiplayer experiences

Add an avatar stack for live collaborative experiences

Spaces: Ably's realtime collaboration SDK to help you build and deploy avatar stacks, and other features, which support shared live experiences online.

Add live cursors for collaborative multiplayer experiences

It’s easy to add live cursors with Ably. Using our Spaces SDK you can build live cursors and other realtime collaboration features to enhance your product.

How to implement a typing awareness indicator

Discover how to add a realtime typing indicator to your live chat, or other collaborative experiences, using Ably APIs and SDKs.

Show the member location of users in your app

How to use the member location feature to show where a user is within the app - which page, cell, slide or block they're viewing.

Allow users to lock specific parts of your app for editing

Component locking is a great collaborative feature that let members of a virtual space lock specific parts of your app to edit without blocking overall collaboration.