The classic version of Google Hangouts included messaging, voice, VoIP, and video call capabilities. It was replaced by the Hangouts Chat collaboration tool, and Google continues to support conferencing via the new Hangouts Meet.
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VideoMost
Score9.3 out of 10
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Video conferencing software that enables users to communicate via two-way audio and video calls, send files, and share screen. VideoMost Server is comparable to Zoom but self-hosted video conferencing server. Using both Scalable video coding (SVC and MUX) and traditional MCU (MIX) architecture VideoMost automatically and dynamically adjusts video quality to available network conditions and CPU utilization throughout a conference session, and provides total legacy HW…
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Zoom Workplace
Score8.6 out of 10
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Zoom Workplace, Zoom’s open collaboration platform with an AI Companion, empowers teams to be more productive, and strengthen customer relationships throughout the customer lifecycle with Zoom’s Business Services for sales, marketing, and customer experience teams, including Zoom Contact Center.
Google Hangouts (Classic) is better than those two competitors if you want [the] ease of use within Gmail. One does not need to go to a separate site to set up a meeting. You just select the link to add the Google meeting link within the scheduler.
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Verified User
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Google Hangouts app is already integrated with many apps users already are familiar with. The program is accessible on many platforms which makes it easy for users to conduct business without having specific devices on hand. It really helped that many people were already …
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Verified User
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
I prefer Google Hangouts (Classic) to Microsoft Teams and Zoom, in terms of ease of use. It is quicker to use than setting up a Zoom room, for example. I always have the tab open in my browser and get pinged when colleagues chat me. Same with the phone app - I have it on during …
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Zoom is solid but it's a whole other thing to log in to and limited in what its focus is. Slack has the chat functionality but Google Hangouts is integrated into my every day use and I don't feel like it's yet another thing to manage and keep track of.
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Verified User
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Zoom allows us to connect to a large number of people but personally I face problems while using Zoom on the mobile phone, it needs a high-speed network and lags too much. While on the other hand Google Hangouts is lite and easy to use on mobile phones, it's easy to connect and …
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Digital Marketing in Marketing at Flatiron (Hospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Google Hangouts is honestly just the easiest to use because it is already integrated with other products in the Google Suite (such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive and more) so you don't need to approve and secure any other app to use this, which is nice because we already use …
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Verified User
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
It is available for free to use for personal. Easy to use. Syncs with gmail. Maintains history. Group chat and also video call are available. Helps to stay in touch with a group of friends. Fun app to use and have on your smartphone. Privacy can be improved further. We can also …
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Data and Analytics Manager in Information Technology at Foundation for Economic Education (Think Tanks, 11-50 employees)
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Google Hangouts provides much better chat and messaging features than Zoom. It also provides better user management and is overall more cost effective. Zoom provides better video quality and conferencing, with the ability to schedule calls ahead of time, record in the cloud, …
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Director of Customer Happiness in Customer Service at Sandboxx (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Google Hangouts is free or inexpensive, while Zoom does cost money. Zoom is better quality though and easier click to join, not all customers want to install Zoom.
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Commercial Sales in Sales at Hootsuite (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Google Hangouts is a much better tool for internal conferencing and can be a good back up when GoToMeeting is not working or is simply just down. I would never recommend Google Hangouts as a company's primary video conferencing software but if they could add a few more …
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Database Administrator in Information Technology at The Blake School (Primary/Secondary Education, 201-500 employees)
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Google Hangouts is simply more convenient for chatting and video integration! The quality on Zoom or Jabber, and video functionality may be higher, but I'll often choose convenience and user accessibility over quality, though it depends on the situation. As a remote worker, I …
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Analista in Information Technology at FONDO DE COMPENSACIÓN INTERTERRITORIAL (Financial Services, 201-500 employees)
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
It is a free tool that is used with your Gmail mail, the video conferences are of quality, we can share several important documents, You can use other channels at the same time to communicate, Really the hangouts are entering strongly in the tight competition of communication …
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Verified User
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
The closest alternative to Hangouts is Skype. Hangouts is a lot more practical since it allows easier teleconference setup, and is so much easier to use since it's web based and needs no installation. At work, we use HipChat as well since it's well integrated with Jira, but I …
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Web Development Instructor + Alumni Community Manager in Customer Service at Skillcrush (E-Learning, 11-50 employees)
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Zoom is a lot better for presenting so I use it when I need those extra features. It is paid and the pricing can get a little pricey so that's why I stick with Google Hangouts for most meetings.
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Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at Winston Preparatory School (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
Chose Google Hangouts (Classic)
Google Hangouts undercuts almost everyone on pricing, and has a solid feature set. In particular, it is enhanced when using with a Google Voice number. In this instance it makes outgoing calls to "real" phones trivially easy. It's great for on-the-fly use, too.
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Fouding Director at Help Them HOPE (Non-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom is easier to use than Google Hangouts and Skype, both of which can be very cumbersome. Also, while Google Hangouts has made some changes to its services it still lags behind Zoom. WhatsApp is the easiest to use but has fewer capabilities than Zoom. Zoom is easy to use, …
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
I actually prefer Zoom over Hangouts. I've noticed that the audio and video quality when using Zoom is better and there are a lot less calls/meetings that are dropped due to a change in bandwidth. I also feel like screen sharing/file sharing is a lot easier in Zoom than it is …
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
We previously used Google Hangouts and did not have a great experience. Part of this is because there are limitations to how many employees can be in the same meeting. We had several people get booted from a company meeting on several occasions, which doesn't help employee …
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom allows us to have more users connected. But, Google Hangouts has better, more consistent high def video quality. It also is much simpler to use and Zoom is drastically limited it seems by not having better integrations, smoother logins processes, and more visible features. …
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4th Grade Teacher in Professional Services at Roaring Fork School District (RE-1) (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom has the best multi-user support, audio and visual quality. Compared to Google Hangouts, the audio and ease of use is better. Compared to GoToMeeting, the scheduler is easier to use and integrates better with Google. We use FaceTime every now and then, which of course …
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Chief Executive Officer in Marketing at Edge One Media (Design, 1-10 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom works great for meetings, trainings, and demos. We use it when meeting physically isn't possible, but we still want to have the experience of seeing someone's face or sharing a computer screen. I like how straightforward it is to invite someone to a meeting whereas Skype …
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom is at the bottom of the other products due to its barebones chat and messaging systems. It's a super basic chat mechanism that doesn't have many other functions—akin to AOL back in the early 2000s. It's difficult to share things and communicate complex ideas. However, we …
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Systems Software Engineer in Customer Service at Income Tax Business Application (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom stands well on their competitors, time to time improvements on user interface. Adding more features like screen sharing and VOIP works great. Their customer support is very good.
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Product Development Manager in Research & Development at Granite Telecommunications (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom's ease of use is unbeatable. We enjoy how easy it is to implement and the great feedback we get from customers and internal employees. We are very happy with our choice and enjoy that Zoom is a Metaswitch partner.
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Senior Consultant in Information Technology at Infosys (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
I selected zoom app because it is a power pack of all the features inbuilt in it. Without any second thought it is the only software used worldwide for meeting and video conferencing. All the data are safe and secure. Users can make multiple calls at the same time with …
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
As mentioned before, I do sometimes use Hangouts instead of Zoom because it cuts out a little bit of time when I just need a meeting for a small number of participants (fewer steps, no need to auth again for Hangouts since I'm a Google cal user). However, Hangouts crashes far …
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Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom is a very advanced and easy to use software when compared to any other. It provides a built-in collaboration tool with HD video calling feature.
End to end encryption is the best part of it.
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom is much better than Hangouts for performance reasons.
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Senior Associate IT Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Zuora (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom just has much better reliability and seamless multi-platform experience than all of the mentioned products. The only mentioned product that still exists for us is Slack.
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Group Lead, Technical Operations in Information Technology at OpenMarket (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom just works for us. It has a Linux client, that is why we choose Zoom. We needed a single platform for our video conferencing. One of the things I like most about Zoom is the ability to connect to Zoom using a variety of hardware.
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Office Manager at Echoing Green (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Chose Zoom Workplace
Perfect. Hands down. Zoom suits all of our needs and I attended the conference to ensure we are using all of its functions to the best of our potential. If we aren't, which I realized now that we aren't, then I intend to heighten or user experience from the things I've learned …
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
Zoom just works every time. Meeting quality is very dependable and reliable. Other solutions don't have the same track record. Other solutions don't have the same powerful and easy to use conference room solutions like Zoom Rooms. These are the two main differences in my …
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
Screen sharing capabilities on Hangouts is not as good as Zoom.
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
I selected Zoom because it was suggested to me during a meeting. I also like that it is free to download, has clear audio, and doesn't break off during calls.
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Verified User
Chose Zoom Workplace
Once Zoom offers a browser version of their software that doesn't require users to download their software, they'll be unstoppable, considering the plethora of features and great User experience.
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Had I completed this review a couple years ago, I would have given a rating of 9 or 10 as Hangouts (Classic) is an excellent product. However, now that Google Chat has succeeded Hangouts, I would not recommend that any new users begin using it where other more modern options are available. Android users who want an internet based instant messaging that also supports calling and video calling could benefit from using Hangouts (Classic) as Google Chat requires the user to also have Google Meet installed to make video calls and there is no voice only calling option.
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I believe this video conferencing system is appropriate for any business. I work in the marketing team, but as I know several enterprising and IT companies use it too. Moreover, they are also fond of it.
In most cases, and I mean almost all, Zoom is vastly superior to Teams in terms of functionality and ease of use. Case in point: I recently tried to join a Teams meeting in the web browser, and it took me multiple attempts to access it. This NEVER happens with a Zoom link.
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Audio quality of phone calls is spot on. Calls are clear and crisp.
Video quality of video meetings are clear and there aren't any pixelization artifacts that some systems can have.
Having AI summaries have been life changing for us. We no longer have to concentrate on note taking, like we did in the past. The summaries are accurate and enable us to put our efforts in the meeting or conversation. Plus, we can save them into our practice management system as required.
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I would like to see improved video support, so that saved videos can be sent back and forth via Hangouts more easily, without having to start a separate meet chat
More pronounced notifications of messages would be helpful; pop up notifications are good, but once there is one, additional messages do not pop up
Custom muting times would be great, so that if I am in a 90 minute Zoom meeting, I can set it for that time; right now, it is 1 hour or 2 hours. Easy to forget.
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Allow a way to group individual people chats - not channels just individual peeps into groups for ease of finding - like how you can group shared calendars into sections in Outlook
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We're sticking with Zoom for the foreseeable future--given its compelling feature set, ease of use, and advanced technology, there's just no other competition to be excited about. Plus it's a Gartner-recognized industry leader, so it's a rather easy choice.
The tool is almost self-implemented. It is likely to be available in every pc or mobile device a user or potential user might have, and all you need to do is adding the company's account and you are done. Once you are setted up, you have almost all actual communication methods available in one tool
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Zoom is made for the non tech office. It has features that can be made to do what you need to run things on a day to day basis. Immediately we we able to get meetings going with remote employees. The ability to be able to add smartphone connected people was a big plus. Zoom met our needs at the time.
There have been less than a handful of outages during our two years with Zoom, and whenever there was one, an email informing us of the outage went out immediately, and they had the issue resolved shortly thereafter.
Zoom has among the best performance of any video conference platform, as I've mentioned several times. Besides that, their Chat platform works great, and their back end always runs smooth. It's unfortunate that reporting can now only be done by one month at a time, but nonetheless, it only takes a second to run any kind of Zoom report, whether it's an attendee report, Poll results, a user report, a list of meetings from the past month, etc.
Google Hangouts works great and does not require a lot of work to troubleshoot. Everything is simple and easy to use. Google provides all of the tools that one requires to utilize Google Hangouts and any information can be found in the built-in help tools. There is also a forum for users to report issues and typically, Google responds well and will try to work out any issues.
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Because I got a response right away, and was assigned one specific individual to work with me from the beginning to the resolution. I had an actual email address and direct contact with this person without having to start over and over every time I contacted Zoom - this singular individual remained attentive and was well informed on the subject matter and quite able to resolve my needs.
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If you receive any pushback from higher ups, point to any of the various positive reviews like this one. Or show Zoom's excellent Gartner report, or articles describing Zoom's partnership with Sequoia capital. It's not difficult to show how Zoom is a trustworthy industry leader with best-in-class technology.
Google is the white cotton socks of the conferencing world. It’s a great ad-hoc tool, but not too much more. If you are not looking to spend money or operate completely on WiFi (without data charges), it’s a great free option as well. The benefit of being free and open is also the liability. It doesn’t have a great integration story with other corporate tools, but [it doesn’t have to] if you aren’t looking for that. All in all, it’s as helpful and ubiquitous as a public payphone…without the pay…and with a video capability.
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Zoom Workplace is typically on the more expensive end against other options, but it's the industry leader for a reason. It has the most brand credibility by far, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. There are limitations when it comes to technical performance, customization and video/audio quality. I prefer Slack myself for communication apps, but Zoom Workplace is a good alternative.
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The billing and price model is really fair for so many functions that they offer, our remote work requires each of the features that Zoom offers, so accepting payment for a tool like this is the least we can do. I like that billing arrives on time and that they offer opportunities and payment times.
Because the Basic licenses are completely free, and because it's very easy to configure and install Zoom, and because anyone can join Zoom from a link without needing an account, scaling is a Breeze. There are absolutely no roadblocks. My company keeps adding more Zoom Pro license every week since it's so in demand. We were able to convert users from several different platforms onto Zoom with no trouble at all.
Zoom is perfect for our business. We use it to video chat with prospective clients. The name recognition alone gives us credibility and it is very easy to screen share and send content out.
I believe it was part of the google suite that was purchased. It was worth the cost as it was cheaper. I believe it is now free, but also becoming deprecated. It is much better to use Teams, Discord, Telegram, etc. Google does not provide enough support or features to make using hangouts worth it these days.
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We have not lost much productivity in our teamwork during the pandemic because of the ability to have Zoom video calls and keep everyone in touch. This is definitely a positive.
We are able to have more people participate in coaching sessions (described earlier) because we don't have room space limitations. This is a big positive.
Being able to start a meeting instantly is great when we are doing support and/or training with a client over the phone and need to be able to share a visible
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