ChatPaddi: The App Sparking Real Conversations in Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt talks business constantly — vendors confirming deliveries, logistics teams tracking a shipment through the creeks, oil & gas contractors coordinating with field crews, families keeping in touch across the Garden City and beyond. ChatPaddi, a messaging, voice and video app built by Adewebs Technologies, was made to carry exactly that kind of conversation — reliably, in the languages people actually use, without routing through a foreign platform that was never built with African networks in mind.

Built for Port Harcourt's pace

Port Harcourt's logistics, energy and maritime-adjacent businesses run on coordination between people who aren't always in the same place — a warehouse, a vessel, a client site. ChatPaddi's channels give teams a push-to-talk broadcast option: one person presses to talk, and everyone on the channel hears it immediately, which matters when a dispatch update needs to reach a whole team at once rather than being retyped into separate chats.

Data isn't always fast or cheap in every part of the city. ChatPaddi's data-saver mode is on by default, compressing images and deferring full loads, and messages composed with no signal queue locally and send automatically the moment a connection returns — so a conversation doesn't just vanish because a network did.

What's in the app

• Real-time messaging — 1:1 and group chats, voice notes, photos, documents, polls and events, with delivery and read receipts.
• Voice & video calls — run through a dedicated LiveKit media server built to hold up better than a best-effort peer-to-peer call.
• Channels & push-to-talk — for logistics teams, churches and community groups that need to reach everyone at once.
• Status updates — a 24-hour photo or text update, with reactions and a tap-through viewer.

An indigenous option, not a clone

ChatPaddi isn't trying to be a copy of an existing app — it's an attempt, in founder Adebo Adegboye David's words, to free African users from depending entirely on platforms that don't prioritise them. For Port Harcourt's energy, logistics and maritime businesses — the same kind of operationally-heavy organizations Adewebs already builds vendor tracking and compliance tooling for — a messaging platform that's reliable on local networks and accountable to local users is a genuinely different proposition than importing whatever app happens to be popular elsewhere.

Get ChatPaddi in Port Harcourt

ChatPaddi is free to download, with no account required until you sign in with your phone number. Visit chatpaddi.com to get it on Android or Mac.

Need software built specifically for a Port Harcourt-based business — logistics tracking, vendor portals, or an operational system? See how Adewebs works with businesses across Port Harcourt.