IPS 5.x Resources

‼️If you are using IPS Cloud, please consider carefully before purchasing. IPS may block chat applications on their Cloud platform at any time.
ChatPro is the next generation of our chat solutions, built completely from scratch.
It preserves what worked best in previous products while introducing modern features designed for today's communication needs with a strong focus on simplicity, usability, and intuitive management.
⚡ Connectivity
AJAX Short Polling (self-hosted only): Stable and reliable across all hosting environments
AJAX Long Polling (self-hosted only): Faster message delivery, near real-time experience
RTHub Integration: High-performance real-time chat with reduced server load and improved responsiveness
‼️Ajax Polling does not work on IPS Cloud. You need to use RTHub for realtime connections.
💬 Chat & Interaction
Public Chat Rooms: Admin-managed rooms with rules, scheduling, and group-based permissions
Private Chat (1–1): Direct messaging between members
Group Chat: Create private group conversations with ease
Club Chat: Dedicated chat rooms for clubs and communities
Message Replies: Reply directly to specific messages
Reactions: React to messages with emojis to boost engagement
Typing Indicators: See when other users are typing
Pin Messages: Highlight important messages by pinning them to the top of the chat
Notification Controls: Enable or disable chat notifications per user
Self-Destruct Messages: Allows messages to be automatically deleted after a specified period of time.
Legacy Plugin Support: Compatible with existing plugins from Chatbox Free and Chatbox Plus

📎 Message Content & Moderation
A lightweight editor with just the right features:
Automatically renders mention, emojis, images, videos, audio, and rich media instantly when you paste a link
Supports essential Markdown formatting such as Ctrl + B, Ctrl + I, and Ctrl + Shift + X
File & Media Uploads: Upload and share images, videos, audio files, and attachments
Message Search: Quickly find past conversations
Auto-Delete Messages: Automatically remove messages after a defined period
Message Reporting: Report inappropriate or abusive content
Ignore Users: Hide messages from unwanted users
Flood Control: Prevent spam by limiting message frequency

🎛️ Interface & Integration
Global Chat Window: Floating chat accessible from all pages
Embeddable Chat Widget: Easily integrate chat into any page or layout
Modern Responsive UI: Clean, mobile-friendly interface optimized for all devices

🚀 Discover ChatPro add-ons!
Download high-quality addons to extend features, boost performance, and customize your ChatPro experience.
https://ipsappzone.com/tags/chatpro-addons/

👀 DEMO
https://demo.ipsappzone.com/chatpro/?id=1
(Click the Trial account button in the top-right corner to create a trial account and test the demo application)

Notes
This application is built entirely from the ground up, with a strong focus on performance and a clear goal of delivering a modern chat experience. As a result, several legacy features from Chatbox Plus that are outdated, rarely used, or no longer aligned with this vision have been removed, including: guest chat, donation, AJAX-based online user updates in the menu tab...

VideoBox is an application that allows sharing videos & livestream (from Twitch & Youtube), the best choice to run your own Movies/TV Shows website.
Live demo: http://demo.ipsappzone.com/video/
Features:
Categories/subcategories.
Custom fields for video's information. 
Protected custom fields that only display for logged members, or who liked the video.
Search videos by custom fields.
Video Collections: create/edit/remove the collections for your videos.
Servers: allows sharing videos from various sources. This feature is also suitable for multi-episode series.
Widgets: top poster, top videos, random videos, featured videos in a slider, collections in a carousel, quick search by custom fields,...
Pages system: easy to create a new page with custom content.
Uploading or using external video URL (supports: mp4, m4v, webm, m3u8, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion).
Using VideoJS to play video formats: mp4, m4v, webm. With plugins:
Support VTT captions
Preroll video for advertising purpose.
Watermark
Media Tags system to define your custom player embedded from any video services.
Live Streams from Twitch.tv and Youtube.com
View video in lightbox
Friendly URL.
Comment system.
Review system
Rating system.
Following system.
Clubs
Reactions
Supports Nexus (Commerce) to sell and buy videos. 
Supports all Points systems:
Points for new video
Points for new comment
Points for new review
Points for reaction
Lazyload.
Tags.
Latest Videos RSS feed.

Live Activity is a live activity feed that broadcasts events across your entire website as they happen - bringing your community to life and boosting engagement instantly.

🚀 Key Features
Flexible Event Types (fully customizable per application)
New content: posts, comments, reviews
New member registrations
New rank achievements
New club creations
New club memberships
New purchases (supports Nexus-integrated applications)
Versatile Notification Styles
Top Ticker with two modes: Marquee or Slide Down
Bottom Toast with adjustable left/right positioning
Customizable elements: show/hide avatar, username, and profile link
Connection Methods
Ajax polling every X seconds (default, works out of the box)
Optional real-time support via RTHub (Pusher/Ably/Centrifugo integration for instant updates)
Optimized for a smooth and seamless experience across both desktop and mobile devices.
live_demo_1.mp4

UStatus is an application that allows members to post status updates on their profile pages, serving as an alternative to the old Status Updates feature in v4. It is easy to set up and features an intuitive user interface for a seamless experience.
Main Features:
Post status updates on profile pages.
Comment on others' status updates.
Give reactions to status updates.
Allow posting status updates on other members' profile pages.
Notifications for new comments, new status updates, reactions.
A widget to display all members' status updates.
Ability to import old data from v4 Status Updates.
Infinite scrolling.
Support the Friends application with the permission "Who can post on your profile: everyone, friends only, nobody"
Demo:
https://demo.ipsappzone.com/profile/1-admin/?&tab=node_ustatus_Ustatus

🚀 Topic Utilities is a powerful application designed to streamline forum discussions with automation and moderation tools. Whether you're managing an active community or optimizing engagement, this app provides essential features to keep discussions organized and efficient.
Key Features:
✅ Auto Welcome - Automatically creates a welcome topic when a new member registers, helping foster engagement (you can choose to create a new topic or reply to an existing topic when welcoming new members)
✅ Auto Reply - Automatically respond to new topics with a predefined message, perfect for support forums to confirm message receipt.
✅ Restrict Consecutive Posts - Prevent users from posting multiple consecutive replies. A user must wait for another member to reply before they can post again in the same topic, reducing spam and encouraging balanced discussions.
✅ Topic Rules - Define and display custom rules for specific topics, ensuring users understand and follow guidelines before participating.
✅ Auto Pin - Automatically pin a topic when it reaches a predefined number of replies, keeping important discussions visible.
✅ Auto Lock - Automatically lock a topic when it reaches a set number of replies or after X days. Useful for limiting discussions in announcements, event promotions, job postings, or special offers to avoid irrelevant comments.
✅ Auto Delete - Permanently removes inactive topics based on the last post date (per-forum settings, with an option to exclude pinned/featured topics), helping keep the forum clean and efficient.
✅ Change Author - Change the author of a topic to another user, useful for content management or ownership transfers.
✅ Change Date - Easy to change topic's date.
✅ Edit title silently - Edit topic title without adding logs or history.

Enhance your site with beautiful, fully responsive Sliders and Gridview options that adapt seamlessly to any device.
Flexible Slider Customization: Choose from horizontal, vertical, or random modes; set autoplay, speed, duration, buttons, and more.
Gridview: Showcase your content in a stylish, organized layout.
Auto-Content: Automatically generates sliders from content in Pages, Forums, Gallery, Downloads, Clubs, Commerce, and additional third-party applications that use the ContentRouter extension.
RSS Feed Support: Automatically fetch content from RSS URLs.
Custom Content Management: Easily add and manage custom content to your slider/gridview; drag & drop to sort, click to edit titles, upload images, and add links.
Thumbnail Caching: creates and saves thumbnail cache for faster loading.
Widget Support: use widget to display slider/gridview.
Popup View: quick view content in a popup (supports Forums, Downloads, Pages, and Videobox)

EasyPopup offers a powerful, customizable solution for creating eye-catching popups on your website. Configure everything from size, position, and transitions to timing, content, and audience targeting. With IPS Member Filters, you can tailor popups to suit specific groups and boost user engagement effortlessly.
Features:
Width/Height.
Transition open/close: FadeIn/FadeOut, SlideIn, SlideUp, SlideDown, SlideBack.
Transition speed.
Positions: Top Left, Top Center, Top Right, Middle Left, Middle Center, Middle Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Center, Bottom Right
Background color.
Compose popup content using the Editor or HTML, or simply upload an image.
Supports advertisement tag in the HTML code: {advertisement="key"}
Supported template tags: {member_id}, {member_email}, {member_name}...
Auto close and show timer on popup.
Showing popups every page loads or every X minutes.
Waiting for X miliseconds to show.
Easily set specific URLs for popup display. 
IPS Member Filter System to show popups. (filter by groups, content count, joined date, last posted, last visited, reputation, member of the day....)

New Stickers is a simple and powerful app that makes managing and using stickers easier than ever. It provides a clean, visual interface where users can quickly browse, search, and select stickers from a rich collection of categories. It works seamlessly with the IPS Editor and all versions of Chatbox (Free, Plus, and Pro). It also comes bundled with 1000+ cute and fun sample stickers across many themes, giving your community plenty of expressive options right from the start.

Key features:
Easy and visual sticker management
Tab-based sticker categorie
Supports multiple formats (PNG, GIF, JSON, Lottie, and more)
Find any sticker in seconds with smart search and quick access to recent picks
Flexible permissions system to control which user groups can access each sticker collection
Compatible with IPS Editor and Chatbox (Free, Plus, Pro)
Make conversations more fun, expressive, and engaging with New Stickers. 🎉
Get 1000 free stickers here:

Features:
Display topic thumbnails in:
Forum index (feed mode not supported).
Forum view.
Tags view.
Topic Feed widget.
IPS Featured Content.
Clubs.
Support for additional apps: Quick Search, Featured Content Pro, Pro Stats
Allow topic authors or specified member groups to select thumbnails from:
Images within the topic content,
External URLs
Manual uploads.
Ability to generate thumbnails from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion.
Support for Grid View mode.
Option to replace Forum Icons with Topic Thumbnails.

MangaHub is feature-rich application designed to build your own professional Manga, Manhwa, or Manhua reading community. Built with a focus on speed and user experience, it provides everything you need to manage a library of titles and chapters seamlessly.
Key Features:
Categories: Organize your library into unlimited categories and subcategories.
Genres: Powerful genre system with dedicated landing pages for each genre.
Custom Fields: Add specific information for each Manga (Author, Artist, Serialized, Country...).
Manga Status: Easily track "Ongoing" or "Completed" titles.
Chapters Management: Easily manage chapters by uploading images or using external image URLs.
Integrated with Nexus, allowing members to sell manga and earn commissions.
Watermark: Automatically add customizable watermarks to protect your manga images.
Secure image links: Use protected, time-limited URLs to prevent hotlinking and unauthorized access.
Reading Experience:
Clean, intuitive, and performance-optimized reader:
Infinite Scroll for a seamless reading experience.
Single Page mode works perfectly on all devices.
Automatically saves reading progress so users can continue anytime.
User Features:
Personal library allowing users to save favorite mangas and track reading progress.
Fast and efficient live search to quickly find content.
Framework Integration:
Comments
Star Ratings
Reactions
Notifications
Follow
Sharing
Tags
Report
Forum Integration
App Compatibility:
Active Viewers
Who Viewed
Live Activity
Widgets System: A variety of widgets with multiple layouts to fully customize your website:
Manga Feed
Comment Feed
New Chapter Updates
Categories
Genre
Stats

This app allows you to define your own embed rules by matching URLs with a specific pattern, then replacing them with custom HTML. This gives you full control over how external media or content appears in posts. Additionally, it features built-in support for embedding Bandcamp (tracks & albums), PDF documents, and HTML5 audio/video files.
How It Works
Each rule includes:
A Match pattern (based on a URL structure, using code like {1}, {2} for dynamic parts)
A Replace template (where variables like $1, $2 are inserted into your custom HTML)
When a user pastes a URL that fits your match pattern into the editor, it will be automatically replaced by the specified embed HTML.
📌 Example: Embed Twitch Channel
Match: https://www.twitch.tv/{1}
Replace: <iframe src="https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=$1&parent=yourdomain.com" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" height="578" width="620"></iframe>
Now when a user this URL to editor https://www.twitch.tv/examplechannel
It will automatically render HTML <iframe src="https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=examplechannel&parent=yourdomain.com" ...></iframe>
⚠️ Note: The pasted URL must include the same dynamic part (e.g. examplechannel) that your embed code expects.
Prebuilt Embed Rules Included
The app comes with ready-to-use rules for:
HTML5 Audio
HTML5 Video
Bandcamp track/album
PDF

ChatPro Ads is a basic, easy-to-use advertising and announcement tool designed specifically for ChatPro. It lets you display custom banners, VIP upgrade promos, or helpful reminders directly inside your chatrooms with absolute ease and zero performance impact.
Key Features:
Flexible Target Controls: You can easily control where and who sees your ads. Simply choose:
Specific Chatrooms: Only display selected ads in specific channels.
Target Member Groups: Choose exactly which user groups see the messages (for example, you can target VIP upgrade ads only to non-paying members).
Smart & Spam-Free Delivery: To keep your chatrooms clean and friendly, the app automatically counts real-time active user messages in the background. It will only display advertisements after a specific number of new user messages are sent (e.g., show an ad only after 5 new messages). This prevents promotions from spamming or cluttering quiet chatrooms.
Zero Database & AJAX-Free: Runs entirely in the browser with native JavaScript for maximum speed and zero server load
Ready-to-Use Message Templates: To make your setup even easier, the app includes a helper library of pre-designed message templates in the admin panel. Simply click to copy the beautiful HTML code, paste it into your message list, and easily edit the text to match your needs.

Top News Ticker is the perfect solution to highlight important updates, announcements, or hot content without relying on bulky sliders or intrusive banners. Compact, modern, and attention-grabbing. This app keeps your users informed while maintaining a clean interface.
Features:
Perfect for customizing how your ticker moves with two presentation styles: Slider & Marquee. Both modes support four directions: up, down, left, and right.
Easily create custom ticker items by adding your own titles and URLs, or get items automatically from:
All IPS Apps (Forums, Downloads, Blogs, Pages,...)
All 3rd party apps that uses ContentRouter extension (Videobox, Musicbox, Mangahub, SportsApp, uStatus,...)
RSS feeds.
Flexible Display Locations:
Floating bar at the top of the page
Above page content
Sidebar widget
You can also control visibility using pagelist filters to target specific URLs or pages.
Display tickers in any widget area.
Demo: https://demo.ipsappzone.com/topnewsticker.html/
🎁 Huge thanks to @joeym for generously sponsoring the development and release of this app.

This app allows using Widget to display the statistic in your site. Members could see and update the newest information on that.
Features:
DISPLAY STATS IN TAB VIEW
DISPLAY STATS IN GRID VIEW
Manage stats in widget's settings:
Easy to add/delete stats.
Drag & drop to reorder the position quickly.
Clicking on stats to options: title, categories, thumbnails.
Supports IPS official apps: Forums, Downloads, Pages, Nexus, Gallery, Calendar. And 3rd party apps that meets the requirement for IPS4 Content, such as: Videobox, Musicbox, Tutorials, etc.... with the following stats:
New content
New comments
New reviews
Most viewed
Hot Topics
New Members
Top Reputations
.....
Other:
Auto-update stats every X seconds.
Widget title.
Thumbnail style (square or round).
Fully support AJAX.
Fully support responsive design.
 
 

Advanced Messenger enhances private messaging with powerful features:
Advanced search - With message-level search with deep-linking anchors and driven scrolling for precise navigation.
Reactions - Send reactions in private conversations, making interactions more engaging and expressive.
Welcome Message - Automatically send a welcome message to new registered members. Integrated AI to generate message content dynamically.
Auto-Reply Messages - Allows users to configure an auto-reply message which is sent as an automatic response to incoming conversations.
Restrict Consecutive Messages - Prevent users from sending multiple messages in a row without receiving a reply.
PM Restrictions - Control which member groups are allowed to send private messages to other member groups.
Message Notes - Allows users to attach notes to messages, visible to all participants in the conversation. This feature helps highlight important information, reminders, or additional context within discussions.
Signature - Allow users to showcase their personal signature in private messages, adding a personalized touch to conversations.
Bulk PM - Send messages to multiple members at once, integrated with Member Filters for easy recipient selection
Upgrade your messaging experience with better engagement and control 😬

AVRecorder is an application that adds a recording button into the Editor, allowing users to record audio and attach it directly to post content as an attachment.
Key Features:
Record audio (.mp3) with ease.
Preview recorded files before uploading.
Set maximum recording duration (in seconds).
Customize bitrates for recordings.
Restrict usage to specific member groups.
Use the API from Deepgram or AssemblyAI to convert speech to text.
Voice of the community widget to display the latest recordings, allowing direct playback with beautiful audio wave effects.
Important Note:
As recordings are uploaded as post attachments, users must have permission to upload attachments to use the recording feature.
Both Deepgram and AssemblyAI offer limited free usage tiers. If you exceed the free limits, you will need to pay to continue using speech-to-text feature.

This app helps users connect and build friendships with others in an easy and engaging way.
Features:
Friend Requests:
Users can send friend requests to connect with others.
Notifications:
Get notified when:
You receive a new friend request.
Your friend request has been accepted.
Users can manage notification preferences, choosing to enable/disable them or receive alerts via email or inline notifications.
Friend Display:
A Friends icon on the top navigation bar appears on every page.
A Friends tab is available on the profile page.
One-click access to send private messages (PM) or chat (requires Chatbox+).
Quick friend search for easy access to connections.
Privacy Settings:
Users have control over their privacy, with options to set:
Who can view their profile.
Who can send them private messages.
Who can see their friends list on their profile.
Support the uStatus application with the permission: Who can post on your profile.
Suggested Friends Widget:
A widget displays random users you may know, available in slider or grid view for easy browsing.
Mutual Friends Display:
Mutual friends are shown on the profile page and in the suggested friends widget, making it easy to find common connections.

Special Limited Offer
Get RTHub for free when you purchase this app — just open support ticket here after your purchase.
Key Features
Instant Reply Updates – New replies are loaded automatically via AJAX without refreshing the page.
Edited Content – Keeps posts in sync when someone edits their reply.
Reaction Updates – Reactions and likes update automatically as they occur.
Typing Indicator – Displays who is currently typing in the editor for a more interactive experience.
RTHub Integration – install RTHub to use real-time services from Pusher or Ably.
Supported Applications
Forums
Pages
Downloads
Blogs
Gallery
Calendar
Videobox
SportsApp
Personal Messenger
Not supported on IPS Cloud
NowReplies.mp4

Enhance your community chat experience with ChatPro Play. A lightweight addon for Chatbox PRO that adds interactive games with beautiful visual effects:
🎲 Dice
🪙 Coin Flip
✌️ Rock Paper Scissors
🎰 Slot Machine
Give your members more reasons to stay active and have fun together!

Slider Maker is an application that allows you to create professional sliders, responsive layout and touch support for mobile devices. You can manually build your sliders by adding images, videos, content, animated layers. Or adding slides automatically from Clubs, Forums, Downloads, Calendar, Gallery, Pages, Videobox.
It’s focused on performance, stability, accessibility to providing the best experience for user experience in mind. Providing a clean and intuitive user interface in ACP and a smooth experience for the end-users.
 
Back-end features:
Create and manage sliders with a clean and intuitive user interface in ACP.
Customize the slides with different layers: Heading, Content, Image, Video (Youtube & Vimeo).
Sort slides and layers with a simple drag and drop.
Easy remove or duplicate a slide.
Auto builds a slider from content items (supports Clubs, Forums, Pages, Downloads, Gallery, Blog, Calendars, Nexus Products, Videobox, Mangahub, ...).
Auto generates random CSS backgrounds for content items that have no images.
Export and import allow you to create backups or move sliders between installations. 
Preview all your changes directly in the ACP.
Breakpoints to change the configuration of the slider depending on screen size.
Permission to view sliders.
Front-end features:
Fully Responsive
Touch swipe
Transition effects: Fade & Slide
Carousel layout
Animated and static layers
Full Width and Full Window
Full screen
Auto Height
Infinite scrolling
Keyboard navigation
Thumbnails
Lazy loading
Video support (Youtube and Vimeo).
Different sized images
JavaScript breakpoints
Display slider in IPS widget (top, bottom, sidebar), or using slider's code to templates to display it everywhere.
Viewing content in a popup (supports Downloads, Forums, Pages, Calendars, Videobox)
Examples:
https://demo.ipsappzone.com/slidermaker/example1.html/ (Gallery with animated layers and thumbnails)
https://demo.ipsappzone.com/slidermaker/example2.html/ (Slider with animated layers)
https://demo.ipsappzone.com/slidermaker/example3.html/ (Carousel)

This application allows you to showcase testimonials on your site.
Demo: http://demo.ipsappzone.com/testimonials/
Main Features:
Engaging Testimonial Sliders in widget: Choose from 3 sleek slider styles to display testimonials beautifully. Flexible Sorting: by newest, oldest, or randomize. Responsive Design: Looks great on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices for a seamless experience. Category Support: Organize testimonials into relevant categories to help users find what they need. Permission Control: Set permissions for viewing, submitting, and managing testimonials. Approval Options: Enable moderation so testimonials can be approved by moderators. Customizable Fields: Toggle titles, ratings, and additional info like company, job, and website. Complete Management: Easily edit, show/hide, or delete testimonials as needed. RSS Feeds: Provide up-to-date testimonials via RSS.

Quick Search is a small application that instantly brings an intuitive search form and smart autocomplete. Results are displayed with eye-catching thumbnails, providing a seamless browsing experience across all applications. Make finding content easier and faster with Quick Search!
Settings:
Enable/Disable.
Permissions for member groups.
Max results.
Search incomplete words
Find results in Content titles only  |  Content titles and body
Search Mode: OR / AND
Set default search type for all pages
Show category and author in search results.
Keyword highlighting to make search results much easier to read.
Display Quick Search in mobile & tablet.
Support widgets
Demo: http://demo.ipsappzone.com

SportsApp - Complete Sports Management System for IPS Community Suite

🏆 Key Features

League Management
Create and manage multiple leagues with logo, banner, info, custom fields...
Custom league rules and score
Automatically updated league tables based on fixture results
Team Organization
Comprehensive team profiles with logos, descriptions, and statistics
Team roster management with detailed player information
Team fixtures tracking across seasons
Player Database
Complete player profiles with name, photos, info, custom fields...
Highlights of matches involving players.
Custom player fields for sport-specific data
Fixture Management
Easy to create multiple fixtures
Countdown timer
Result recording with detailed match statistics
Comment system
Rating System
Match Event System
Custom fields system
Auto post a topic when a fixture is created
Widget System
Ready-to-use widgets for any page on your site
Fixture lists, league tables, and team information widgets
Supports multiple layouts: list, table, grid, carousel
Support for API integration from thesportsdb.com:
Ability to import leagues, teams, players, and fixtures
Automatic synchronization of fixture scores
Get SportsApp today and transform your sports community into a dynamic, engaging platform that keeps members coming back for more!
🎁 A big thank you to @joeym for generously sponsoring the development and release of this app.

RTHub integrates Pusher, Ably, and Centrifugo servers to enable instant real-time updates for:
Active Viewers
NowReplies
Live Activity
ChatLite
ChatPro

Special thanks to @Sevence for sponsoring the development of Centrifugo server support.

Bring your chats to life with voice! This app enables users to effortlessly record and send voice messages in Chatbox or Chatbox Free.
Features:
Voice messages are saved as MP3 files for convenience and compatibility.
Flexible permissions: Control who can use the feature.
Customizable options to enable voice messaging in specific rooms, conversations, or clubs.
Set a maximum recording time to suit your needs.