Google 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
Zoom Rooms
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Zoom's conference rooms that make it easy to run or join video meetings with a tap of a button. Zoom Rooms bring HD video collaboration into any space – in the office, in the classroom, or at home – and enables in-person and remote participants to interact in real time. The solution also makes it simple to start a meeting, book a room, and share content.
Zoom Rooms is far superior from initial installation, backend management, and user experience though that seems to be changing with time as more and more products and features are added it is becoming more bloated and complicated to manage the service.
During the evaluation process we found Zoom Rooms to be more reliable on our network and more secure for our students. We enjoyed the controls in the system as well as the flexibility for our staff to teach within their preferences.
Features
Google Meet
Zoom Rooms
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.8
60 Ratings
11% above category average
Zoom Rooms
8.4
24 Ratings
6% above category average
High quality audio
8.760 Ratings
8.823 Ratings
High quality video
8.460 Ratings
8.724 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements
8.943 Ratings
7.710 Ratings
Mobile support
9.254 Ratings
00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.8
60 Ratings
11% above category average
Zoom Rooms
9.1
15 Ratings
14% above category average
Desktop sharing
8.660 Ratings
9.015 Ratings
Whiteboards
9.140 Ratings
9.11 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.4
58 Ratings
3% above category average
Zoom Rooms
9.1
15 Ratings
11% above category average
Calendar integration
9.457 Ratings
8.615 Ratings
Meeting initiation
8.857 Ratings
9.015 Ratings
Integrates with social media
6.325 Ratings
00 Ratings
Record meetings / events
8.846 Ratings
8.914 Ratings
Slideshows
8.747 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Google Meet
8.4
57 Ratings
4% above category average
Zoom Rooms
8.8
10 Ratings
9% above category average
Live chat
8.855 Ratings
8.810 Ratings
Audience polling
8.037 Ratings
00 Ratings
Q&A
8.439 Ratings
00 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
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.
Call quality is generally good with few issues, so everyday calls where Zoom is at its best are always good. In larger meetings with many action points, the AI summary can do a very good job of capturing the most important points. I find the room booking tool to be a nightmare and very inconsistent. Rooms take some time to book and are often rejected for no clear reason.
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.
Provides an AI transcript of the call, and includes talking points, action items, and other ways to mark up the transcript.
Access to "Zoom Rooms' is a great tool for large groups to work virtually off-site and then report back in for feedback.
Zoom provides connections via phone or internet using a wide range of toll-free numbers. I have called in via my cell, and while the network support is often too weak to allow for video, the audio is great.
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.
Support is prompt, but not always the most immediately knowledgable or helpful.
Admin portal is convoluted. There's gotta be a better way to assign scheduling permisissions.
Zoom account managers are constantly being reassigned. It is nearly impossible to keep track of who presently is our account manager. When we were going through the process of looking into Zoom Phone, our manager was literally switched twice, resulting in us working with three total managers during that two-month process.
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
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!
User friendliness (experience very similar to the already familiar Zoom app), consistency of the UX across locations and manufacturers. Screen sharing is made super easy (proximity). Zoom rooms support strategic needs for Hybrid work and reduced travels. Backend admin interface is simple (that's good) and provides useful dashboards for trend analysis.
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.
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.
I personally think Zoom Rooms is superior to Teams. I have setup 3 or 4 Zooms Rooms for my organisation and it is pretty straightforward to do without any formal training or education on Zoom Rooms. My experience with Teams was the opposite. A horrible interface and options deliberately hidden away in menus levels deep. On top of which, Zoom Room outperforms Teams Rooms in both video and audio. On the desktop, Teams is a bloated app whereas, in my experience, Zoom Rooms works well.
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.
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.
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.