Google Meet
meet.google.com
Video calls anyone with a Google account can join straight from a link
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meet.jit.si
Open-source video meetings guests join in a browser with nothing installed.
Jitsi is the open-source conferencing stack and meet.jit.si is the free instance the project runs, with screen sharing, chat, raised hands and no participant cap worth worrying about. Guests join from a link with no account and no download. Since August 2023 the person who opens a room has to sign in with a Google, GitHub or Facebook account — joining stayed anonymous, starting did not.
Questions
Free to use, but you have to register before it will do the job. Creating a room on the public instance now requires signing in with Google, GitHub or Facebook.
Yes. Jitsi Meet sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
Creating a room on the public instance now requires signing in with Google, GitHub or Facebook.
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