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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Meet

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Meet, formerly Hangouts Meet, replaces the former Google Hangouts as the company's G Suite integrated web conferencing tool, allowing users to join meetings directly from a Calendar event or email invite from a computer, phone, or conference room. G Suite's Enterprise edition also creates a dial-in phone number for each meeting, as an additional convenience.

    $6

    per month

    HipChat (discontinued)

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AHipchat was discontinued by Atlassian. Users are being migrated to Slack.N/A
    Pricing
    Google MeetHipChat (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Google Workspace - Business Starter
    $6
    per month
    Google Workspace - Business Standard
    $12
    per month
    Google Workspace - Business Plus
    $18
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google MeetHipChat (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Google MeetHipChat (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    64 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    60 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    41 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    55 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Google MeetHipChat (discontinued)
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Google Meet and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Meet
    8.8
    60 Ratings
    11% above category average
    HipChat (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio8.760 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video8.460 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements8.943 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support9.354 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Google Meet and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Meet
    8.9
    60 Ratings
    11% above category average
    HipChat (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing8.660 Ratings00 Ratings
    Whiteboards9.240 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Google Meet and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Meet
    8.5
    58 Ratings
    4% above category average
    HipChat (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration9.557 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation8.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media6.325 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events8.946 Ratings00 Ratings
    Slideshows8.847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Google Meet and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Meet
    8.4
    57 Ratings
    4% above category average
    HipChat (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat8.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling8.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Q&A8.439 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Google Meet and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Meet
    9.2
    50 Ratings
    13% above category average
    HipChat (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication9.547 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions9.145 Ratings00 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list8.936 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Google Meet and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Meet
    -
    Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    106 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.397 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings7.2103 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Google Meet and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Meet
    -
    Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    132 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings7.7132 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings7.7130 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings6.5110 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings7.834 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.043 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings7.023 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Google Meet and HipChat (discontinued)
    Feature
    Google Meet
    -
    Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)
    6.3
    95 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Video files00 Ratings6.585 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings6.873 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings6.660 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings6.027 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings6.055 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google MeetHipChat (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    ClickMeeting
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    JioMeet
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Meetings
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Google MeetHipChat (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (65 ratings)
    6.8
    (133 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    7.2
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (18 ratings)
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (10 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google MeetHipChat (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Well suited for both our workplace and virtual meetings, especially when people are not in one place. It is also more appropriate with audio, visual, and captions. It is also more appropriate to send a recording to your drive for reference on parts that a host may not have captured.
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    Discontinued Products
    Well suited for
    Cross-teams communication.
    Webhooks support. Easy integrations with Atlassian products and other systems as well. File sharing directly or in a group. Video/Audio calls.
    Not suited for:
    Lacks apps integration like Slack.
    Lacks quality with video calls.
    Slow file transfer for large files.
    Frequent downtime due to app instability.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Google
    • It allows multiple people to join in a meeting.
    • The admin can change the role and make anyone as admin of the current session.
    • Even if the meeting gets disconnected due to network in the admin's side error still it remains running on the user's side.
    • Multiple people can share screen together at the same time.
    • The admin can make the meeting open to all so that every time someone joins the admin does not have to allow them one by one. Once it's open, all can join without permission of the admin.
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    Discontinued Products
    • HipChat is very stable and reliable. I have never had issues with not being able to connect or being able to communicate with others on HipChat.
    • HipChat integrates quite well with other applications, such as Jira and Stash. This is a main selling point for my team. It provides a convenient feed of actions on a JIRA story or Stash pull request.
    • HipCat does a good job of allowing 1-1 and group chats. It is simple to start a new conversation and it is easy to hold a group conversation and keep track of who is in the room.
    • I like how HipChat has away/here/on mobile statuses. This makes it easy to see if a person is available to be contacted.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Google
    • One major one — I always say that we cannot send attachments during the meeting. Teams has that, so I believe Google should add that as well. Because you can have the conversation in the messages, but you can’t provide a file. So let’s say I have a technical conversation with someone, and I want to share a document, like an architecture diagram — I cannot send it. We have to use Gmail or Drive for that. It can be integrated for sure, so that’s an improvement that definitely can be done.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Mobile app is not very responsive on iOS. Sometimes connection to Hipchat servers is taking too long even on good networks.
    • Both mobile and desktop versions have no alphabetical or recent sorting for groups and chat rooms.
    • Video and audio calls are pretty useless, they're slow and not always work.
    • The whole user interface is simple but very outdated - apparently Atlassian didn't focus too much on Hipchat even though they tried in the last 2 years.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    This app is still having a lot of redundant features as compared to other industry apps such as Zoom and Webex which offers much more on the functionality side along with the option to have greater user access control to the admin/host of the meetings. A sense of interaction is always found to be missing in Google meet which can be easily adopted in the Zoom
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    Discontinued Products
    If they fix the bugs the last update gave that are causing hipchat to crash more often.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    Google Meet is very easy and simple to use. I can schedule a meeting right on my calendar - it literally takes a few seconds. There is no additional app I have to open to schedule anything. Guests can click on the link easily to join any meetings. 10/10!
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    The app itself had a pleasant if not generic interface. As a user experience expert and engineer I can say the interface is fairly intuitive if not bland. It does what you expect it to do and it's available on iOS and Android devices. If I recall it was generally pretty light weight in terms of installation size.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Google does a great job of providing tech support for this product, as it does many others. Similarly, Google has FAQs that cover a large amount of issues faced by users. Problems have not persisted in our use of this product. Problems are resolved quickly and easily, with or without personal Google support.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    HipChat support is good . Responds in timely manner when ever we have raised the request via email , phone and gives us continue update on the request .Though most of the questions are answered by HipChat FAQs , but they can still improve it and add more to the knowledge base .
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    I don't have insights as I was not a part of the implementation. However, I love the end product
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    I use Microsoft Teams, but obviously Google Meet is much better than that because there are some challenges which I see as part of this. One of the main pros that I see here is that in Google Meet, whenever you have all those recordings as part of the Google Suite, you have those recordings stored in Google types. So that's the same Google product and everything stays in the same thing.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We tried a lot of chat clients before choosing HipChat. The Skype for Business UI on the Mac side was 5 years old and terrible. Mac users hated the app including our CTO. Cisco Jabber was expensive to license and maintain; Skype was open to the public which took time away due to users dealing with spam and could allow viruses and malware. HipChat being a closed product, centrally managed and available to try without an upfront investment was perfect for our environment. All our Agile teams have their own room, chat and can communicate with others quickly and easily.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    I wasn't involved in the unit pricing factor. So far I used Google meet in the office where I got access to all these Google applications including the Google Meet feature. So I wasn't involved much in this pricing factor of Google Meet and also regarding the contact terms of the product.
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Actually I never shared of HipChat using with more than 25 persons in team simultaneously, but I believe it can be scaled for much largest collaboration teams. At least it works flawlessly for us, with transparent integration with Jira, and I am not see any reasons for some troubles for work at big scale.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Google
    This is very good in the professional services as I started using this first for the professional service only. While using this Google Meet itself gives a professional feel as the UI works in a professional way. The video background modification, multi-screen feature, and some other features help in professional service.
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Google
    • It's definitely the way that we engage with our customers and each other. So I think it's really good that it can help you bring remote people together and feel like you've met with them online. And then when you meet them in person you're like, this tracks, this definitely coincides with who I saw online. So it definitely is a really good platform to just bring people together, but remotely.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • HipChat has increased the effiency with which I am able to communicate with my coworkers, particularly those who work out of other offices. Having a light, portable messaging solution has been beneficial for checking in on small things without the need to send emails or schedule phone calls.
    Incentivized
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