Jitsi Meet vs. Whereby

If you need a tool that is very easy to use for a small and quick online meeting, then you can go for Jitsi. However, if you are looking for a professional tool that provides a lot of features like scheduling a meeting, recording the meeting, etc., then there are other tools that fit your requirements better. However, Jitsi is a nice tool that can also be used for personal calls.

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Whereby is well suited for making connections with clients and people who are not technologically savvy. It is very easy to use for the most part. It does not work very well when I am trying to screenshare and show demonstrations of excel spreadsheets, but not a lot of products do

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• Hosting meetings
• Sharing screen
• Business call
• Personal call

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• Easy to use: The app is very, very easy to use. Literally just create a chat room (input a name) and access it to chat.
• Call/video quality: I've experienced better call quality on appear.in than in almost all other chat and video conferencing services out there.

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• Improve the quality of video during screen sharing, especially when we are sharing only test content.
• It consumes a lot of bandwidth if we share our screen as well as open the camera.

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• The paid version may have dial-in. But I have always used the free version. Dial-in is typically required for an "official" multi-purpose teleconference platform.
• I did have some trouble with larger groups (5+) when it was Appear.in but almost always use it for small 1-on-1 or 3 person meetings.

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We are using a larger tool suite that already includes video conferencing instead of our older approach of using different apps from different vendors. appear.in has a simple but great set of features but its pricing scheme is not as scalable as we really need in a 500+ employee company.

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Very easy to use, technical and non-technical colleagues have used it with no instructions needed. That says all about the app and services.

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Never had to contact support, so we cannot give a rating for their overall support. When we noticed the audio was not always great quality, we simply educated our users to mute the mic and use the in-room conference phone which is connected via a dedicated VOIP link and had much better voice quality. The video performance varied by locations network speed and found it got much worse when the room size increased to over 4 connections.

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After a recommendation from a partner, as the system is very easy to use, we simply start.

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For me, the main feature that separates Jitsi from other is the way how I can host a meeting. I can have both a public room as well as a secure private room with a password.

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I did not evaluate other applications against Whereby, because we had a very specific need, which was the partner that we would use the solution, only accepted to use Whereby, so, we accepted to use the solution. As it was for a specific period, there was no problem. And in the end, it proved to be a very stable, very fast solution, with no need for crazy plugins or anything. Basically, it was access[ed] and use.

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• Scalability
• Stability of base platform
• Great community support
• Continued enhancement by community

• In general, any sort of online collaborations saves a lot on your budget. The meetings are rather more on time and can be efficient and short.
• Easy to drop-by and have a small talk with clients/teammates within COVID era.
• The URL makes you look fancy instead of a random hash.

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