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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 8.1

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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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Zoom has consistently exceptional audio and video quality.
  • Zoom has a Breakout Rooms feature that makes it possible to allow for small-group sharing. For example, if I'm teaching a workshop to 30 people, I may opt to create ten Breakout Rooms (three people/room) for small-group sharing.
  • Zoom Cloud recordings can be saved with multiple audio, video, and screen sharing tracks. This is very useful when producing recordings of live sessions.
  • My clients sometimes lose track of windows associated with live meetings (e.g. the video feeds). I can typically get them back on track very quickly, so it's a minor inconvenience.
  • On the Mac, when I close the main Zoom window there isn't an obvious way to get it back. This is a fairly minor point, and one that could easily be addressed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Zoom Rooms are incredibly easy to use.
  • Zoom Rooms are incredibly easy to implement.
  • The Zoom Desktop Client is easy to use.
  • We would like to see chat enabled from a Zoom Room.
  • We would like to see breakout rooms enabled from a Zoom Room.
  • I like to see innovative features on a touch screen.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Intuitive to use: who wants a high learning curve product?
  • Clean interface: everyone wants simplistic and easy navigation.
  • Great user experience: it's frustration-free!
  • Right now, we haven't yet run into anything that would cause concern that we feel needs to be rectified or added as a feature request.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's easy to manage from the Zoom Web Portal. It doesn't take long to get up to speed and feel comfortable administering it.
  • Extremely reliable. Zoom just works, as the tagline says. It is the most reliable web conferencing platform I've ever used.
  • Zoom Rooms are a great conference room experience. It enables us to turn any sized room into a collaborative space.
  • With the variety of supported devices, there is some lack of feature parity. I have learned this the hard way with some of the choices I've made. The differences between these platforms could be made more clear.
  • Some of the coolest features -- like Digital Signage -- are in need of love and improvements. These are really the types of things that unlock the full value of being a Zoom Room customer.
  • Higher quality video and screen sharing is a must! 1080p at least!
October 16, 2019

Zoom review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It just works
  • Needs little support
  • Allows a user to collaborate using a centrally supported tool that's so good they don't look for an alternative
  • Some features that exist - users seem unaware of - not sure that's an HCI issue or just an awareness [issue].
  • I surveyed users recently on what could be better and the only answer was auto transcription could be better especially with medical terms.
  • It would be good if we could upload a dictionary of common specialist words.
October 16, 2019

Love It...Won't Leave It

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Join before host; users don't have to wait for the host to be online.
  • The Outlook Add-in makes scheduling meetings really simple.
  • Zoom is so much easier to use than other products.
  • More straightforward ways to select who shows up on the screen.
  • Joining with other meeting invites by the touch of a button.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Content can be shared extremely easily. All you need is a sharing code and a web browser or the Zoom application.
  • Ad-hoc meetings are a Breeze. Simply clicking a few buttons starts the meeting magic!
  • Scheduled meetings are also a Breeze and even launch automatically. This was extremely important for us as some remote locations have limited support staff. It just works!
  • Manipulating camera tiles could come in handy. As more users start to join a meeting, Zoom will automatically arrange the camera tiles. In our use case and for training purposes, allowing the tiling of cameras to be accommodated between multiple monitors would proof beneficial.
October 16, 2019

Zoom's awesome.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • integrations with other applications are great (Okta, Slack, etc.)
  • Simple to use. Intuitive.
  • Just works.
  • I'm learning a lot at Zoomtopia, so I think maybe for admins Zoom could have better communication in-app or a web portal about functionality of different options you can use
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use
  • They have a lot of documentation if you have a problem. Great team
  • Being able to use one platform to chat and communicate with video is great
  • More info on how to save webinars and edit them
  • When they announce new products, they should have them offered in Spanish on day one
  • It would be great to edit all the pictures of our Zoom team profiles all at once
October 16, 2019

Zoom Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy scheduling of meetings. Fewer steps involved in setting up meetings than in the past.
  • Users are able to record meetings through their own login instead of calling IT hoping there is a recorder available.
  • They can add whomever they want to the meeting just through the app with their emails.
  • It would be nice to have Zoom Rooms work with the breakout room feature.
  • Is it possible to manage Cisco standard rooms?
  • Better way to mute on joining without issues for Cisco-based endpoints.
October 16, 2019

Click to Zoom!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • One click to join
  • Touch support on Zoom Rooms
  • Simple and neat interface with all the goodies working in the background
  • More hardware vendor collab to make sure the Zoom UI remains uniform across all systems
  • High touch support availability for larger organization
  • Preferred ratings on hardware vendors for Zoom
October 16, 2019

Zoom Just Works

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of Use
  • Intuitive
  • High quality audio and video
  • Zoom Room error message when adding a new audio/device and system defaulting to built-in settings within Windows. It took time to troubleshoot and work around the issue on a Windows 7 OS
Johny Jacques | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Zoom is very intuitive and the learning curve is absolutely the lowest I've experienced in any video conferencing solution.
  • Zoom's support is top notch, very responsive and friendly.
  • It's easy to develop relationships with our customer success managers and product managers. Zoom's culture makes it easy to become loyal customers and brag to others about the Zoom experience.
  • I am probably one of the more vocal customers in the past four years and some of the things I have been asking for and have yet to receive are: An easy portal to submit feature requests and track their statuses and be kept up on what is happening from a feature perspective. Zoom often releases updates without formal announcements not giving the system administrators and engineers time to fully test before deploy. I have 30 plus feature requests in to date and not sure I've seen progress on more then 2 or 3.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The ease of use helps staff members adopt the software.
  • Zoom Support has been very helpful even after post deploy to help troubleshoot and answer questions.
  • Zoom's ease of use to work on multiple platforms like mobile and computer.
  • Providing more options on post recording options like file download load format and editing options.
  • As an IT admin it would be nice to have better options when attempting to make custom reports on the backend. At times the canned reports, do not help with information being requested.
M Phillip Yogore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I am really happy with the Zoom web extension for Google Calendar.
  • I find Zoom very stable compared to other video conferencing systems I have used. I have been an "IT person" for several years and I would say that's it's the best video conferencing solution I've come across.
  • I find that setting up a Zoom Room is a very easy thing to do from a hardware perspective.
  • I like the ability to update Zoom software from the Zoom admin console.
  • I would like Zoom API support to be more helpful than it currently is.
  • Zoom usage and support in China could be better.
Paul Tocatlian | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The overall user experience is simple and intuitive.
  • Audio and video quality never fails.
  • There are a number of features that help the user stay engaged.
  • It just works...
  • Setting up conference rooms independent of the user. For example, we set up classrooms and then assign instructors to them.
  • Provide a staging environment where we can test our integration before pushing the changes to production.
October 16, 2019

Zoom Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to start a meeting.
  • Capability to integrate with calendaring services.
  • Integrates with many other apps such as Kaltura.
  • Communicate more about new features that are available
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reliable video and audio.
  • Easy to use - "it just works".
  • Zoom provides a great partnership, ensuring your solution works well.
  • A simple optional walk-through when you begin a meeting where new features can be introduced. This would ensure users understand all of the new features.
  • Additional chat management features to ensure large or small sessions have an interactive chat experience without distracting the meeting facilitator.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The DTEN is an outstanding use case of Zoom video in small to medium environments.
  • It just works! Easy to set up and use with nice and easy mobility.
  • Makes remote working easy, increases productivity and collaboration between teams.
  • Need all the features to work in a Fed Ramp certified environment.
  • Improve on the delivery time of the DTEN 75.
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