Enghouse Vidyo vs. Freehand by InVision

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Enghouse Vidyo
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
From Enghouse Systems, Vidyo is a web conferencing platform that features video calling and instant chat capabilities. The platform integrates with most environments, networks, and devices.N/A
Freehand by InVision
Score 6.7 out of 10
N/A
Freehand, from InVision headquartered in New York, is an online whiteboard that enables teams to plan, brainstorm, and draw together. It aims to give everyone a simple way to visually represent ideas with charts, diagrams, and drawings. Whether for mind mapping, creating a customer journey map, or drafting up an org chart, Freehand can help teams make ideas and plans visual.
$4
per month per user
Pricing
Enghouse VidyoFreehand by InVision
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Freehand Free
$0
per year per user
Freehand Pro
$4
per month per user
Freehand Enterprise
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Enghouse VidyoFreehand by InVision
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Enghouse VidyoFreehand by InVision
Top Pros
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Features
Enghouse VidyoFreehand by InVision
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Enghouse Vidyo
9.8
9 Ratings
20% above category average
Freehand by InVision
-
Ratings
High quality audio9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
High quality video9.99 Ratings00 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements9.77 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile support9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Enghouse Vidyo
7.8
9 Ratings
2% below category average
Freehand by InVision
-
Ratings
Desktop sharing7.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Whiteboards7.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Enghouse Vidyo
7.8
9 Ratings
6% below category average
Freehand by InVision
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Ratings
Calendar integration9.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Meeting initiation9.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with social media5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Record meetings / events5.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Slideshows9.78 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Enghouse Vidyo
6.9
8 Ratings
17% below category average
Freehand by InVision
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Ratings
Live chat9.68 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience polling5.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Q&A6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Enghouse Vidyo
8.9
8 Ratings
9% above category average
Freehand by InVision
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Ratings
User authentication9.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions9.87 Ratings00 Ratings
Confidential attendee list7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Enghouse VidyoFreehand by InVision
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(9 ratings)
7.9
(102 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.6
(16 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.4
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Enghouse VidyoFreehand by InVision
Likelihood to Recommend
Enghouse
I've had HR professionals ask about using it for interviews. Gone are the days where we have to spend hundreds of dollars to fly candidates in or limit ourselves to phone interviews. Vidyo with it's high reliability has saved the organization thousands in travel costs with candidate recruitment. Business meetings that can often be troubling to get leaders and executive all in one room, Vidyo has functioned extraordinarily well in bringing in people from home, on the road, or the airport. Mobile capabilities are easy and fast. Quick daily calls and chats in the office are probably best suited for the free options out there as Vidyo is not a free service like others. Better yet general phone calls will suffice.
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InVisionApp Inc.
InVision Freehand has quickly evolved to be a very robust solution for our pre-design process and collaboration with stakeholders and other product teams. It has brought a lot more hands-on workshopping opportunities and created engaging spaces for cross functional teams. Internally to our design org we are able to prototype ideas faster and generate insights or changes BEFORE going into more hi-fidelity design tools or processes.
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Pros
Enghouse
  • I didn't have to sign up, I just need to log into the "room" I was supposed to, so unlike Skype or other instruments, I didn't need to spend time and create my own account.
  • To be honest, the largest online class I've attended had 10 people in it (besides the teacher), but it was a good quality connection.
  • I enjoyed the ability to ask questions or clarifications in the chat (without having to turn on my microphone, so that the teacher could answer the question when he/she finished the thought).
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InVisionApp Inc.
  • Bring in and embed external files and view them on the board without having to move out of freehand. eg. pdf's, power point, youtube etc.
  • Creating wireframes, flow maps, all and any kinds of created art boards to share with team members.
  • Ability to create text and link to external sites
  • Can format and create pages with text and bullet points right in freehand, rather than having to go to another software to do the same.
  • Collaborate with Team members all on the same board and project at the same time and get feedback live in a meeting and/or even later.
  • Love the different templates that have been provided for me to use as a starting point.
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Cons
Enghouse
  • The design and the branding give little to be desired
  • Customer support is below average
  • The API must be rewritten and add more functions that are commonly requested.
  • Project codes are not well maintained and hard to find.
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InVisionApp Inc.
  • The resolution: Our webpage designs always pass the resolution threshold to where freehand starts to work its compression. During presentations, it can be a little embarrassing when we can't read the copy because it looks like potatoes.
  • Embedding videos: GIFs are only good to a certain point, and creating Vimeo embeds is tedious. I wish I could embed MP4s or web assets a lot quicker.
  • Touchpad panning: I can't tell you how many times I've "gone back" in my browser when I'm just trying to pan across the freehand. Has honestly made me wanna force quit on many occasions.
  • Sticky notes and text in shapes: Overall, it's really hard to use the sticky notes and text inside rectangles without the text just getting all over the place. It's different sizes, it gets too tiny, it gets way too big, and overall, it just doesn't look professional, even with a lot of fussing.
  • No ability to crop/mask an image. Nice to have, but sometimes we just need to delete a chunk off a screenshot, and it requires opening PS or taking a screenshot to edit anything.
  • Wish there was a way to have "internal comments" that are not visible to our clients.
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Likelihood to Renew
Enghouse
No answers on this topic
InVisionApp Inc.
Honestly as in any organization it's up to budget. I feel like every organization I go to I'm constantly striving to keep InVision as part of the main funded tools used by the team especially in a remote environment. I feel there is a push to move to Figma and Zooms new white boarding tool but I'm still not a fan of Zoom's tool. Microsoft also created a white boarding tool which has been buggy.
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Usability
Enghouse
Though not as widely used as Zoom or Google Hangouts, it is very competitive as far as features and usability
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InVisionApp Inc.
Color Selection can be tricky when changing colors for shapes and text I've seen other users struggle with creating sticky notes and getting text to fit in the box properly and had to abandon the tool for a workshop for this reason After having a demo, I learned of new features I wasn't using. I don't know it would have been intuitive to find on my own.
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Reliability and Availability
Enghouse
No answers on this topic
InVisionApp Inc.
For availability, we never have to even think about whether inVision Freehand is going to be available for us to work with. There has never been a time when we have opened up the application and had any issues of any kind. I can't imagine why anyone would work with a platform that is unreliable. inVision Freehand is realibel, stable, and getting better all the time. Whether it's their built-in tools or the expanding of Templates to work with Freehand has been a reliable go-to platform for us.
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Performance
Enghouse
No answers on this topic
InVisionApp Inc.
It is a little slow when bringing artboards from Sketch to Freehand using Craft. I have had some issues loading and redrawing pages when I have a lot of images on my freehand board. It gives me an error message while I am in the file and starts to reload and redraw all the photos again. Not sure if it has a limit on how many images it can handle on a board at a time.
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Support Rating
Enghouse
We have an internal tech team dedicated to setup and troubleshooting of Vidyo. This makes it very easy, because we have access to our own employees for help. Rarely have I or anyone I work with had to escalate something to Vidyo themselves, and we're lucky to have the internal administrators that run the show. Almost like Vidyo is ours and ours alone.
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InVisionApp Inc.
I haven't had to use the support team for anything, which is great news because that means the product usually works as expected! In terms of online support, I've been able to find videos that show how new features work. Also, many of the people I work with have experience with the tools so they are a great resource for me.
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Implementation Rating
Enghouse
No answers on this topic
InVisionApp Inc.
The implementation is pretty much easy-peasy and plug-n-play. We simply download the applications and install, signed in and were good to go. I really cannot imagine that there would be anyone who would have any difficulty whatsoever in getting started in more than just a few minutes. It's really how implementing these officewide improvements should always go.
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Alternatives Considered
Enghouse
Vidyo gives all of the competitors a run for their money. Since it works seamlessly, is easy to use, and has a clean UI. Screenshare could benefit from some work, like the ability to share multiple screens from different users at the same time. The search function could be improved, but overall, it's a great software.
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InVisionApp Inc.
Miro (formerly Realtime Board) is the original product concept for this tool and I used it for 3-4 years for product development. Invision is aesthetically a carbon copy of the tool but lacks in fine usability controls. We actually didn't choose Freehand, it just came as an added tool under our Invision subscription. It's helpful but knowing the previous tool, it's been a hard sell because it's just not as good. Again, it's really fine tuned usability things like navigation, zoom, switching from tool to tool, selecting and deselecting, etc
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Enghouse
No answers on this topic
InVisionApp Inc.
Getting set up with inVision Freehand was super simple. We figured how many of our team members were going to be using it and we set up our account knowing that. There were no negotiations, contract hassles or anything that would have been a waste of our time, efforts or resources.
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Scalability
Enghouse
No answers on this topic
InVisionApp Inc.
Not everyone in the company has access to Invision, and they can't view the links I provide to them. I also wish everyone could view a file without logging in to the enterprise account. It comes in handy when I am doing focus-group studies or other studies with our customers that don't have Freehand. Unfortunately, if that is possible, I don't know how to do that.
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Professional Services
Enghouse
No answers on this topic
InVisionApp Inc.
We didn't use an outside vendor - that's why I gave this option a 10.
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Return on Investment
Enghouse
  • It did help us reach the objective of education - after a while, everyone had a chance to connect and the quality of video/audio once you're in is great. It's just getting there that isn't up to par (but hopefully would be changed in next versions).
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InVisionApp Inc.
  • Positives all around. Everyone is able to see and collaborate.
  • Granting access is sometimes a pain. Sending the link does not always work, and I get emails as people try to access boards.
  • No negatives really, I love learning all of the different ways it can be used.
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