Alternatives to Zoom
6 alternatives found
Zoom is a video communications platform founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan (former Cisco WebEx VP), achieving explosive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic and becoming a verb for video calling with 300 million daily meeting participants at peak. Zoom's technical foundation — a purpose-built video infrastructure with proprietary encoding, jitter buffering, and quality adaptation algorithms — delivered consistently superior call quality over WebRTC-based competitors at the time of its launch.
Microsoft Teams
Bundled with Office 365 — Teams for Microsoft-first orgs; Zoom for best standalone video experience
Google Meet
Free with Google Workspace — Meet for G Suite teams; Zoom for meeting-heavy orgs needing max quality
Webex
Cisco enterprise video — Webex for Cisco-heavy enterprises; Zoom for broader market
Loom
Async video recording — Loom to replace meetings with recorded video; Zoom for live calls
Slack
Team communication hub — Slack for async text; Zoom for high-quality video meetings
Whereby
Browser-based video meetings — no download required; Zoom for features; Whereby for simplicity
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