Join.me (discontinued) vs. West Collaboration (discontinued)

Join.me (discontinued)

West Collaboration (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Join.me (discontinued)	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	Join.me, once acquired by LogMeIn in 2019, was an audio, video, and web conferencing tool targeted at SMBs. Its software can be used across various devices and includes features such as one-click scheduling, personal links, interactive whiteboards, and presenter swapping. It has since been discontinued.	$10 Month
West Collaboration (discontinued)	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Launched in October 2020, Hoot Meetings from Intrado was a client-free service used to host and join video meetings. Since rebranding to West Technology Group, the company is discontinuing its collaboration technologies. Hoot Meetings is no longer available.	N/A

Pricing

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Editions & Modules

Lite: $10.00
Month
Pro: $10.00
Month
Business: $10.00
Month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Join.me (discontinued)	West Collaboration (discontinued)
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products	Join.me (discontinued) Michael Chow Learning Experience Designer / Graphic Designer Chose Join.me (discontinued) Join.me was the cream of the crop. Free accounts are offered by others in an effort to emulate the success of Join.me. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) We have tried a number of online meeting platforms since 2010 when we first commenced our online and international programs. Although Join.Me was a mainstay for us at first--affordable, safe, and great way to provide remote access that other platforms failed to provide--now we … Incentivized Helpful? HM Henry Mwangi Senior Account Director Chose Join.me (discontinued) One reason why Join.me stands out is that it is very affordable with no compromises when it comes to capabilities. It offers powerful features and makes web conferencing as well as collaboration at the work place seamless. In addition, using Join.me is easy and as long as the … Incentivized Helpful? Alan Bloxham Project Manager Chose Join.me (discontinued) We selected Google Meet because we didn't necessarily need the unique URL or a dedicated app for screen sharing. We found that Google Meet was sufficient in getting everything we need for our team meetings, as well as meetings with the clients. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) If you're looking for something basic that handles a little bit of everything when it comes to meetings, screen shares and remote desktop control join.me is a great options. If you're a super user and really wanting a lot of detailed features and rich user interfaces and money … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) Honestly it is one of 3 that I use on a daily basis depending on what my clients prefer or use. But it is my favorite because of the ease of use and its calendaring and reminder abilities that is prefer it above others and recommend it when possible. Maybe the others do these … Incentivized Helpful? JG Jackson Gordon Account Manager Chose Join.me (discontinued) Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet are better and I prefer them over Join.me. It is a good cheap alternative. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) We used Join.me as our web conferencing tool before switching over to Google Meet. Using the Google suite of products made Google Meet the easier choice. Incentivized Helpful? Kimberly Hammond Computer Technician Chose Join.me (discontinued) [LogMeIn] is better remotely controlling computers and chatting but Join.me is better for meeting purposes. It also allows you to interact with your calendar. The two products are great with features to satisfy all. [LogMeIn] however is a lot more expensive for small … Incentivized Helpful? Janet Montgomery MMIS, BS, PMP®, ITIL®, Socia Media Content Creator, Freelance Writer, Blogger Chose Join.me (discontinued) Join.me was free while other products require a fee. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) Join.me has many shortcomings when it comes to comparison with Webex. I believe Webex is by far the best however there is a small piece of the of the market for Join.me. Join.me was too late to the game and lacks in features on top of it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) We started using Teams to communicate at first. But sometimes we had issues with it connecting to the server. Also installing it seemed to have issues from time to time. We had a really hard time working with Microsoft technical support. We had to put in several tickets before … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) Join.me works well for all our issues, so we have had no need to use another solution. Incentivized Helpful? BS Brett Schenker Email Deliverability Specialist Chose Join.me (discontinued) They both have their good and bad things but to me Join.me feels like there's less steps to get things done. Zoom is more robust but I'm also paying a lot more for it and it can be cumbersome at times to set up meetings. I've had far more issues using Zoom than Join.me. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) Join.Me was a legacy subscription that carried over, there was no longer a need or desire to use Join.Me when everyone is so accustomed to Teams. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) It is a fundamental tool in today's world of work. Join.me is very simple to use and compatible with all devices. Also, it is a stable platform with a good price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) I have been a Skype user for over 10 years and while it has its pros, I think Join.me provides ease of use that cannot be found on Skype or Zoom. Basecamp is more of a project management tool but it has some video conferencing features that can be used. If I was to rate these … Incentivized Helpful? Donna-sue Carpenter SMS Routing Manager Chose Join.me (discontinued) Join.me is a fabulous application that can streams lively. We are highly obsessed with its live conversation feature which is best rather than other alternatives such as Zoom or Skype. There is no need to gather the employee in meeting rooms. We can deal with the whole world by … Incentivized Helpful? John Cupoli Business Development Chose Join.me (discontinued) With the exception of stability on cellular data, I feel Join.Me outperforms Zoom or Teams in ease of use and a robust feature selection that is extremely user-friendly and easy to pick up. The recording feature makes your call recording available quickly and you can easily … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) A bit pricer but gets the job done. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) Join.me is less integrated with your email and schedule, but is way more user friendly. Skype is good internally, but is nowhere as effective with client facing communication. From a quality standpoint, Join.me compares well against their competitors. I have never had issues … Incentivized Helpful? Alvin Fayman Data Business Unit Manager Chose Join.me (discontinued) Screen sharing and visibility work particularly well with Join.me, we haven't encountered any interruptions during our exchanges or any difficulties that would require technical support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Join.me (discontinued) I haven't used any other software here that is similar to join.me. I know one software that management has been talking about using for a free trial was GoToMeeting which is under the same umbrella company. Incentivized Helpful? Aquinov Mathappan Systems Administrator (Business Intelligence) Chose Join.me (discontinued) Compared to Adobe Connect, Join.me is very easy to install and rollout across the organization. Companies of any size can adopt this application for easy and effective conference calls, impromptu meetings and recording sessions. Cost-wise, it was easy to justify the purchase as … Incentivized Helpful? Alexander Cooper RPA Developer Chose Join.me (discontinued) Join.me may be more reliable in my eyes. However, because of how Skype is adopted company-wide and across many clients, I do not think it competes in this market. It requires more exposure and easier integration with Outlook. Incentivized Helpful?	West Collaboration (discontinued) AH Alex Hopkins Data Engineer Chose West Collaboration (discontinued) I don’t like both of these tools. In both of these softwares, it was quite hard to generate a link for video meetings even in Zoom that was more tricky. Plus the price of both of these tools was much high than that of Hoot and that was another demerit. So, all these things … Incentivized Helpful? MO Mike Oscar Food and Beverage Outlets Manager Chose West Collaboration (discontinued) I was not satisfied with the quality of video Zoom used to provide us. Furthermore, my team didn’t find the Zoom link easy to join and above all creating link for the meeting was very hard and tricky in Zoom which is easy in Hoot and Hoot works well even with a large number of … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

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Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software

Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
	Join.me (discontinued) 7.8 Ratings 1% below category average	West Collaboration (discontinued) 8.5 Ratings 8% above category average
High quality audio	8.50 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
High quality video	8.20 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements	7.00 Ratings	7.60 Ratings
Mobile support	7.30 Ratings	8.40 Ratings

Screen Sharing

Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
	Join.me (discontinued) 7.9 Ratings 0% below category average	West Collaboration (discontinued) 8.3 Ratings 5% above category average
Desktop sharing	8.50 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Whiteboards	7.40 Ratings	8.60 Ratings

Online Meetings / Events

Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
	Join.me (discontinued) 8.0 Ratings 2% below category average	West Collaboration (discontinued) 8.4 Ratings 3% above category average
Calendar integration	8.50 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Meeting initiation	8.40 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Integrates with social media	7.10 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Record meetings / events	8.00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Slideshows	8.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Online Events Collaboration

Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
	Join.me (discontinued) 8.1 Ratings 0% above category average	West Collaboration (discontinued) 8.3 Ratings 3% above category average
Live chat	8.70 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Audience polling	7.70 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Q&A	7.80 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Online Events Security

Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
	Join.me (discontinued) 8.3 Ratings 3% above category average	West Collaboration (discontinued) 8.7 Ratings 8% above category average
User authentication	8.20 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions	8.20 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Confidential attendee list	8.40 Ratings	8.60 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Join.me (discontinued)	West Collaboration (discontinued)
Small Businesses	Intermedia AnyMeeting Pro Score 7.1 out of 10	Whereby Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	JioMeet Score 9.8 out of 10	JioMeet Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises	Webex Meetings Score 8.7 out of 10	Webex Meetings Score 8.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend	7.1 (0 ratings)	8.4 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend	If you're on a bit of a budget the pricing for Join.me definitely makes it an easy choice. We were able to download it and get it up and running for free on a few of my teammates PCs that needed assistance with some computer setup. It can be a little confusing to access some of the features at first but once you get the hang of it it's pretty easy to use. Wouldn't necessarily recommend it for extremely large meetings, but it's excellent for smaller groups. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It is a very amazing tool for everyone who wants to experience the essence of real-time meetings in a virtual meeting. It has the capacity to withhold a large number of participants without creating any kind of trouble. Its integration and quality of video and audio are far beyond perfection. But [I feel] its customer service is quite pathetic. Incentivized MO Mike Oscar Food and Beverage Outlets Manager Read full review
Pros	Join.me has provided us many features that made it possible for us to communicate. Another plus point is its staff which is pretty good ‘professional and highly supportive and is always there for help. We can also connect with people outside our region and with its advanced functionality we have found it as the best audio conference software than any other software of its type. it has made our audio meeting experience very effective. Incentivized Donna-sue Carpenter SMS Routing Manager Read full review	Its integration with [Microsoft] Outlook is very helpful for us. It provides the best quality of video and audio. Its pricing is so fair and justified. Its mobile application works quite smoothly. Incentivized MO Mike Oscar Food and Beverage Outlets Manager Read full review
Cons	In my experience when using the mobile app the quality drops when on cellular data, even with a strong signal. Given the current challenges, teams Face ID like to see the mobile capabilities get some improvement as it doesn’t seem to be optimized when not on a PC or wireless network. Incentivized John Cupoli Business Development Read full review	It requires a profoundly strong internet connection or else it stops working. It is buggy. There should be an update on it. Incentivized AH Alex Hopkins Data Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	This platform enables a very high ROI for the solution that it provides to our team to support our end-users. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Join.me is one of the easiest programs I've ever used. It's so easy to get it set up and installed and even easier for someone to join a meeting. The controls are very intuitive and labeled appropriately. The UIX makes sense. It's been a reliable product in my app stack-I love it! Incentivized Christopher Page, MBA Digital Marketing Consultant Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I honestly haven't reached out to their Support team. I get notifications of what they are working on which is good to see, but I haven't directly spoken with any of them. I think my main reason for this is that join.me gives me just what I need (not much more and not much less). Incentivized Samarah Sardoni Lead Project Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	This is a fairly simple product which doesn't require much "implementation" work for our use cases. Incentivized Chris Whisonant Lead Consultant Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We have tried a number of online meeting platforms since 2010 when we first commenced our online and international programs. Although Join.Me was a mainstay for us at first--affordable, safe, and great way to provide remote access that other platforms failed to provide--now we have found much less utility since we use Zoom which is affordable, provides a more robust and cohesive user experience, and now also provides remote access when granted. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I don’t like both of these tools. In both of these softwares, it was quite hard to generate a link for video meetings even in Zoom that was more tricky. Plus the price of both of these tools was much high than that of Hoot and that was another demerit. So, all these things compelled me to switch to Hoot and I am having a wonderful experience with it . Incentivized AH Alex Hopkins Data Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	We have been able to beat the learning curve as Join.me is almost self explanatory to most of our team. The cost per user ratio can feel a bit expensive but for the speed and convenience we feel it was the right investment The biggest ROI is time, being able to go from email to meeting in a few clicks makes Join.me feel natural and not just another "video conferencing" tool that we use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	My team and I can better coordinate. I am able to bring my team on one page and can communicate freely. I can add my whole team and the quality of the video remains the same. Incentivized AH Alex Hopkins Data Engineer Read full review
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