Jitsi

Features

• Android and iOS apps
• Audio-only option
• Telephone dial-in to a conference (if Jigasi is setup)
• Dial-out to a telephone participant (if Jigasi is setup)
• Integration in other apps / websites
• Lock a room with a password
• Screen sharing (if jidesha is setup, only required in Chrome)
• Streaming a conference to YouTube live (if Jibri is configured)
• Auto-view the active speaker or click on any attendee to see their video
• Text chatting (web only)
• Play a YouTube video to all attendees call
• Shared text document based on Etherpad
• Raise/Lower your hand for attention
• Participant talk-time statistics
• Push-to-talk mode

Pricing

Jitsi pricing

Self hostable

Yes

G2 Score

4.3/ 5 (53 reviews)

Reviews (Snippets from G2)

Pros

• The user interface is very smooth. I like that you are able to share youtube videos so smoothly.
• If you are looking for a light, easy-to-use video conferencing tool, Jitsi is a must-have. Simply choose a "room" name and share it with your participants. Everyone can easily access the shared space and start the conversation.
• The best thing about jitsi is its screen-sharing feature and also that you can create my conference room of any proper name and invite people to it.
• Easy to use, excellent for small groups.

Cons

• It'll need to add file sending support in chat (images, files) as well as maybe more fine control over audio & video (for example: bitrate switching, stereo and multi-channel audio mode, etc).
• Hope the background blurring feature gets better with time.
• Sometimes it gets hanged on mobile app, need to restart the application
• Stability and bandwidth issues, even on a self-hosted server, seem to cause some problems with heavy usage, unfortunately.
• Maybe there is a slight delay in some audio opportunities when conducting meetings and video conferences, they should improve this to give the best performance to the user.

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