The Best Video Meeting Apps for Teams
1. Zoom
Zoom is one of the most popular video conferencing solutions for businesses. It is feature-rich, with various plans based on business size and needs. Prices range from free for basic personal meetings to $19.99/month/host (with a minimum of 100 hosts) for large enterprises.
The features for the enterprise-level plan include up to 200 meeting participants, unlimited cloud storage, custom emails, a vanity meeting URL, and more.
2. Google Hangouts
Google's foray into the video conferencing market is part of its Google Hangouts service. Hangouts is often considered to be an individual use service, not as feature-rich as other commercial and enterprise-ready services.
However, for smaller businesses, or those that fully leverage G-Suite across their operations, Hangouts can be an effective tool for video communication. The cost can be low, depending on your team's G-Suite subscriptions, which start as low as $6 per month per user.
3. Google Meet
Created for enterprise customers, Google Meet is an upgraded version of Google Hangouts. Google Meet is designed around scheduled video meetings among team members, with similar features to Zoom like calendar syncing, conference room booking, and a more polished user interface.
4. GoToMeeting
GoToMeeting has many useful features, including instant meetings or meeting scheduling, meeting transcription services, and in-app meeting messaging between participants. GoToMeeting pricing starts at $14/month for groups of up to 10 meeting participants, and costs $29/month for larger groups of 150 participants.
5. Skype for Business
Microsoft's popular Skype service is augmented as an enterprise-ready video conferencing tool. It has several business features, such as allowing up to 250 attendees in a meeting and connection with other Skype users and virtual whiteboarding capabilities.
There are some limitations, however, such as the lack of an integrated dial-in audio conference feature, and lack of hardware support with online-only plans. User fees start at $2 per user per month.
6. Cisco WebEx
An industry-standard service, especially for those with a large number of team members or an exceptionally large enterprise, Cisco's WebEx video conferencing service operates like a mash-up of web conferencing and voice calling services, as it enables joining meetings online or via the phone, depending on the participant's location and ability at the time. Pricing starts at $13.50/host/month.
7. BlueJeans
BlueJeans is a full-featured web conferencing app that integrates with collaboration tools. Touting a simple and modern approach, in contrast to some of the more complex services offered by competitors, Bluejeans uses a system of meetings, rooms and events to enable video meetings anywhere.
No software is required with the ability to launch meetings from a browser. Also, the service allows for easy viewing of all video conference activity in your organization.
Plans start at $16.65/month/host for enterprise teams.
8. Slack
An extremely popular collaboration tool used in organizations all over the globe, Slack has integrated video conferencing features. If your organization is not using Slack, adopting it for video conferencing probably doesn't make much sense.
Video conferencing is like an add-on to the functionality of Slack and can be a great tool for integrating hybrid teams. One-on-one video chat is part of Slack's free account offerings, but for larger meetings, customized enterprise pricing is necessary, which requires a customizable quote.
9. Appear.in
This video chat service is ideal for small organizations that want a simple method for connecting team members. It features a fast service due to its streamlined nature. Appear.in has anonymous features, which might not be important to enterprises, but are noteworthy nonetheless. Appear.in starts free, but teams will want to pay $99.99/month, which will allow up to 150 users.
10. BigBlueButton
The last service on our list is the open-source BigBlueButton. It features whiteboard capability for meeting productivity and was created specifically for education and online learning. As a free open source tool, there are many add-ons and integrations through third-party developers that allow for customized web conferencing experiences, including an integration with Learning Management Systems (LMS) that will make for a seamless student and teacher experience.