# How to make a private Chat app
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508 "2020-12-15T13:55:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@tanisshagunjal](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tanisshagunjal)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/1 "2020-12-15T13:55:27Z")
Hi everyone,
if a user wants to privatly ask me a question on my app how do iadd a chat feature where i can message them privatly
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### Author:  [@tanisshagunjal](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tanisshagunjal)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/2 "2020-12-15T13:56:16Z")
pls reply fast
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### Author:  [@luv.ak.tech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luv.ak.tech)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/3 "2020-12-15T13:57:18Z")
use firebase
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### Author:  [@tanisshagunjal](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tanisshagunjal)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/4 "2020-12-15T13:58:10Z")
how do u use firebase for that
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### Author:  [@luv.ak.tech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luv.ak.tech)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/5 "2020-12-15T13:58:48Z")
it is a database that works online
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### Author:  [@luv.ak.tech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luv.ak.tech)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/6 "2020-12-15T13:59:09Z")
if you have specific doubts then only we can help you
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### Author:  [@tanisshagunjal](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tanisshagunjal)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/7 "2020-12-15T13:59:52Z")
i know what firebase is, but how do i get the notifications and how do i reply to them privatly
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### Author:  [@luv.ak.tech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/luv.ak.tech)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/8 "2020-12-15T14:01:50Z")
I dont think notification will even work even if app closed and for replying make a text input and when they click send add the message you wrote from your text input to your
list as value in firebase
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### Author:  [@itzvinie](https://community.thunkable.com/u/itzvinie)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/9 "2021-10-26T14:56:14Z")
So how do we get the private chat done, with multiple users on the app… Thanks
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-make-a-private-chat-app/1036508/10 "2024-11-08T12:19:46Z")