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Overview

What is Zoom?

Zoom helps consolidate communications and collaboration in the boardroom, classroom, operating room, and everywhere. Zoom is an intelligent collaboration platform that makes connecting easier, more immersive, and more dynamic. Zoom technology facilitates collaboration through solutions like Zoom Team Chat, Phone,…

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Recent Reviews

Zoom does the job

10 out of 10
April 08, 2024
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I use Zoom to hold meetings when we can't be together because of distance or disease. I started using it to teach remotely, and was very …
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Zoom Review

1 out of 10
January 19, 2024
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In my experience, it uses too much RAM, so if you have less than 16GB RAM, your computer will freeze when using Zoom. The desktop Zoom …
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Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Desktop sharing (701)
    8.1
    81%
  • Meeting initiation (689)
    7.9
    79%
  • High quality audio (706)
    7.7
    77%
  • High quality video (708)
    7.6
    76%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

18 videos

Zoom: How Video Conferencing Let a Music Producer Stay on Beat
04:15
Information Services Managers uses Zoom Exclusively: User Review
01:21
User Review: Zoom Resolves the Struggles of Planning Meetings as Communication Goes Virtual
03:46
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Pricing

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Add-On Zoom Translated Captions

$5

Cloud
per month per license

Add-On - Zoom Whiteboard

$24.90

Cloud
per year

Pro

$149.90

Cloud
per year per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://zoom.us/pricing/?utm_source=Tru…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software

Features related to the performance, reliability & compatibility of web conferencing and webinar (online events) software.

7.2
Avg 8.1

Screen Sharing

Features related to remote screen sharing capabilities.

7.5
Avg 8.0

Online Meetings / Events

Features related to hosting and attending meetings and events online.

7.5
Avg 7.9

Online Events Collaboration

Features related to collaboration between attendees during web conferences, webinars, and other online events.

7.3
Avg 7.7

Online Events Security

Features related to the security of meetings and other events held via web conferencing/webinar software.

7.1
Avg 7.5

Cloud PBX

A cloud PBX system is based on cloud computing technology where data is stored and transferred over the intenet without any need for on-site PBX equipment

5.9
Avg 8.2

Call Management

Customized phone system settings

6.7
Avg 8.2

Mobile apps

Apps are compatible with mobile devices.

7.4
Avg 8.6

Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration

UCaaS platforms allow teams to collaborate internally in one central space.

5.5
Avg 7.5
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Product Details

What is Zoom?

Zoom is a collaboration platform designed to make connecting easier, more immersive, and more dynamic for businesses and individuals. Zoom technology facilitates modern collaboration through solutions like Team Chat, Phone, Meetings, omnichannel cloud Contact Center, AI Companion, and Whiteboard.

Zoom Features

Cloud PBX Features

  • Supported: Hosted PBX
  • Supported: Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
  • Supported: Directory of employee names

Call Management Features

  • Supported: Answering rules
  • Supported: Call recording
  • Supported: Call park
  • Supported: Call screening
  • Supported: Message alerts
  • Supported: Business SMS/External Messaging
  • Supported: Voicemail Transcription

Mobile apps Features

  • Supported: Mobile app for iOS
  • Supported: Mobile app for Android

Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software Features

  • Supported: High quality audio
  • Supported: High quality video

Online Meetings / Events Features

  • Supported: Scheduling
  • Supported: Calendar integration
  • Supported: Meeting initiation
  • Supported: Record meetings / events

Screen Sharing Features

  • Supported: Desktop sharing

Online Events Collaboration Features

  • Supported: Live chat

Online Events Security Features

  • Supported: User authentication
  • Supported: Participant roles & permissions

Unified Communications Platform and Collaboration Features

  • Supported: Centralized communications management
  • Supported: Team messaging
  • Supported: Team document sharing
  • Supported: Call and meeting analytics

Zoom Videos

Zoom Workplace is an AI-powered collaboration platform.
Zoom is the official unified communications platform for MLB™, powering their Replay Operations Center, MLB.tv™ fan experience, and even the MLB Draft™ with Zoom Meetings, Zoom Phone and Zoom Contact Center.

Zoom Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesNorth America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Zoom helps consolidate communications and collaboration in the boardroom, classroom, operating room, and everywhere. Zoom is an intelligent collaboration platform that makes connecting easier, more immersive, and more dynamic. Zoom technology facilitates collaboration through solutions like Zoom Team Chat, Phone, Meetings, omnichannel cloud Contact Center, smart recordings, and Whiteboard.

Webex Meetings, GoTo Meeting, and Microsoft Teams are common alternatives for Zoom.

Reviewers rate Desktop sharing and Call recording and Mobile app for iOS highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of Zoom are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Rauri Finan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Zoom is easy to use. Users just get it and aren't confused by the UI.
  • Zoom support. Currently, I am a team of one, so I don't have the bandwidth to support every question and ticket I get. Having a ghost support army via Zoom is invaluable.
  • Innovation. The features of Zoom, like just the wireless sharing alone, means it gets deployed in every possible room.
  • The only annoying thing is that when I am using Zoom on my laptop (apple mac I use virtual multiple desktops religiously) and I command + tab to another app or virtual desktop and then switch back to the Zoom call, it always goes back to the Zoom app UI and not the Zoom call in progress. That's all I can think of.
October 17, 2019

Zoom the right way

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's easy to install.
  • Zoom Rooms is easy to navigate.
  • There's support for multiple monitors in Zoom Rooms.
  • The cost to replace an up and running solution.
  • It's an additional platform to support.
October 17, 2019

Zoom Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Impressive video quality.
  • Ease of use.
  • Great support with sales and technical implementation.
  • It is very reliable.
  • More API integrations.
  • Feature discrepancies on mobile device platforms.
  • It doesn't support the dev environment as well as products like slack.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Screen sharing is a great feature. there is very rarely a delay in the connecting to share out to the connected team. It's also great from an IT perspective, as I can easily set up a meeting to do remote troubleshooting and incorporate computer control requests to help fix the issue for my customers.
  • The video feed is clear and crisp, which makes for doing larger town halls just that much nicer.
  • The cloud recording access and sharing are easy to use. As the sharer of these recordings, they have made this very simple.
  • The incorporation of our current cafe mic and sound systems is also cleanly integrated.
  • Within the desktop application, I would like to have the ability to control all settings without having to navigate to the web portal.
  • We're looking forward to the upcoming applause features, as that will help with cutting down chats for large meetings.
David Moffett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reliability and ease of use. Zoom is the first app I have used or administered that really truly 'just works.'
  • Ease of Administration -- making your admins happy will drive user adoption. My Admin team fights for this product when internal detractors get noisy.
  • Hardware agnosticism. Zoom provided us with global flexibility when vendors aren't able to deliver expected standard components.
  • We would like more control over isolating aspects of Zoom's business from my users. Specifically the third party app ecosystem. While land and expand works well to sell to me, my users will go nuts adding apps.
  • Okta Deprovisioning. This needs fixing.
  • An all-hands specific product would be great. While this is always super custom, extending the design philosophy to this use-case would complete the already strong magic.
October 17, 2019

Zoom is the Best ;)

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Zoom works great within rack/room windows based machines as the Zoom Room host.
  • Controlling AEC and ANC.
  • Controlling capabilities, not being locked to a specific touch panel.
  • In the field of having a confident monitor on a direct share, it can be improved.
  • Expansion on Dante input channels could be expanded to more than 16.
October 17, 2019

Zoomtacular

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It just works.
  • It is easy to use and manage.
  • It keeps everybody connected.
  • The admin portion could use a portal instead of being on the user profile.
  • It does some false reporting of signs saying they are critical when they don’t have cameras.
  • The dashboard could be more customizable.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Zoom is easy to set up.
  • Zoom works on any platform or device our users may have.
  • Zoom is highly reliable.
  • We would like 4K video as an option.
  • Better interoperability with other video conferencing solutions. Some WebEx invites, for example, won't work with CRC if they don't contain the correct information in the invite to trigger it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Video Conferencing.
  • Chat Room.
  • Connect with multiple interviewers.
  • More applications for higher education with a focus on "best practices."
  • Sharing "best practices" of how Zoom is integrated with LMS that different institutions use.
  • The capability of colleagues in remote places to review, edit, and provide "draft" feedback to the author of a report/document.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
  • Zoom connects from any device (smartphone, room system, laptop).
  • Very user-friendly.
  • We don't really have anything on this front. With the recent introduction of Zoom voice, all needs are well met on the platform.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Video quality: Zoom can keep a stable connection and a seamless video motion throughout entire meetings. Sometimes there will be macroblocks and noticeable compression artifacts, even though our network is top-notch.
  • Audio quality: audio is clear and evenly distributed.
  • It's simple and fast to join meetings.
  • Zoom needs massive improvement in content sharing for video. We get very noticeable lag and delays when sending content through wifi, while Airplay using an AppleTV works with imperceptible lag.
  • IMPORTANT!!! -> Zoom has great documentation online, but it's not concise and organized in a way that we can navigate. It's particularly hard to google for documents, as "Zoom" is way too common a word. This has caused major headaches in the past.
  • Zoom could improve in video switching, implementing cutting functions, and the insertion of graphics and lower thirds. This would be particularly useful for events.
  • I would also love support for NDI (Ip cameras).
Elizabeth Hudak , PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Video Stability.
  • Ease of Use.
  • Support.
  • Allowing meetings to go on without the host attending.
  • We've had issues with Integrating with Outlook, causing conversion from Skype to be an issue.
  • It's bad at attaching a time and date to a meeting number.
October 17, 2019

Zoom At its best

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Video and audio meetings.
  • Screenshare.
  • White boarding for engineering meetings.
  • Digital signage displays independent of Zoom Room.
  • Trunk SIP for Avaya PBX.
Andy Howard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Quality: the video quality is outstanding. It does an incredible job of adjusting to bandwidth issues, and rarely do you have a video or audio issue. In the rare cases you do, it recovers quickly and efficiently as if nothing happened.
  • Reliability: it always works. People rarely have issues connecting. The client software is extremely lightweight. As mentioned above, it recovers quickly and efficiently if there are network issues. If you are in a spot with poor data service, you can always call in on the phone.
  • Functionality: Zoom continues to add more and more functionality to the system, including Webinars (which people love), Digital Signage, and Zoom Phone. Customers that choose Zoom for meetings almost always end up using Zoom for additional functionality.
  • Meetings: I would like to have more options about where to place the video of the participants in the meeting, and which users I see. I like to put the video of the people at the top of the screen by my camera to get better eye contact, but it is difficult to do so when someone is screen sharing.
  • Webinars: I would like to see more options for video distribution within large organizations for webinars. Webinars works great for scenarios of hundreds to low thousands of users. But organizations are hesitant to use it for extremely large webcasts because there is no eCDN or multicast functionality so they are concerned about network issues.
  • Administration: From an administrative perspective, I would like to see Zoom add the capability to see what the client's internal IP address is, so you can determine which office the client accessed Zoom from. Currently, it only reports on where the client goes out to the Internet, which in many large organizations is still only one or two datacenters.
Jeff Bornstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It provides users with ease of use within their OS environment for direct communications.
  • It's very interactive between multiple users within the same meetings.
  • Zoom allows each user to customize their own Zoom interface the way they want to use it as a tool for audio, video, chat or Q&A submissions.
  • Sometimes video appears choppy or buffers with fast motion content.
  • I would like to see different custom layouts for content and live video in the recordings. It's hard to concentrate on a small video thumbnail image.
  • I would like to be able to pop-out the video or content windows separately and move around the desktop so I can work in other applications while joined in the Zoom event.
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