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id: 'realtime'
title: 'Realtime'
description: 'Send and receive messages to connected clients.'
subtitle: 'Send and receive messages to connected clients.'
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---

Supabase provides a globally distributed [Realtime](https://github.com/supabase/realtime) service with the following features:

- [Broadcast](/docs/guides/realtime/broadcast): Send low-latency messages between clients. Perfect for real-time messaging, database changes, cursor tracking, game events, and custom notifications.
- [Presence](/docs/guides/realtime/presence): Track and synchronize user state across clients. Ideal for showing who's online, or active participants.
- [Postgres Changes](/docs/guides/realtime/postgres-changes): Listen to database changes in real-time.

## What can you build?

- **Chat applications** - Real-time messaging with typing indicators and online presence
- **Collaborative tools** - Document editing, whiteboards, and shared workspaces
- **Live dashboards** - Real-time data visualization and monitoring
- **Multiplayer games** - Synchronized game state and player interactions
- **Social features** - Live notifications, reactions, and user activity feeds

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