Jitsi vs Zoho Meeting: Which is a better fit?

Zach C.: Hi, my name's Zach. I'm a CTO, and I give Jitsi a four star out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. Before Jitsi we were using Slack video calls, and we are just having some random sort of technical difficulties with different people on our team. Some people had audio problems, some people had different connection problems, really, just unfortunately, it wasn't meeting our needs for the most basic standard, which is just having a reliable platform. It wasn't reliable enough for us. That was really the main reason why we decided to switch and look for other tools. The reasons why we chose Jitsi, for one, it's a great free solution. That was a big deal. And the fact that it works for anybody without setting out [inaudible 00:01:02] account and works through the browser, and is really easy for any other users to join a Jitsi meeting. That was a huge plus for us. It worked great internally within our team, but it also worked with other clients when we wanted to set up meetings. All we had to do was send them a link, and it was always an easy, no hassle way to start a meeting. There's no applications to download. There's no accounts to create. It doesn't matter what other programs they might be used to, Jitsi always worked great. Other than that, it really just met all those basic requirements, has all the great functionality of most of the other video conference applications, and it can also record meetings. That was also a great advantage for us. Just connect it to your Dropbox, and it can record meetings and store the recordings there. Besides that, it has all the standard configurations and ways to control the speakers and participants in the meeting. It really met all of our needs in that respect. I can say that Jitsi was probably the easiest application that I've ever gotten started. It was just so quick and easy going to the browser and just clicking on the initial button to start a meeting, and you already are up and running, and then you can send a link to your friend and get started. There's really no barriers to start up with Jitsi. It's one of the easiest applications to start with. My recommendation is if you're considering Jitsi, first of all, the price is obviously great, being free. It really just depends on your needs and what you're looking for. Within the team, if you need a quick, easy-to-set-up video conferencing tool, both internally and with clients, I really think it's a great option. Probably the only downside is that it doesn't have all the integrations, so it's not an all-in-one tool as in like the calendar and scheduling and the recording option that some other tools out there have. You do have to use Dropbox to save the recording, so you might need to get a paid Dropbox account. The calendar isn't integrated in there, so the scheduling and meeting scheduling might have to be done through a separate platform also. If you're okay with a little bit of disjointedness in that respect, then I think it's a great option. If you're really looking for one whole, cohesive video application, calendar scheduling, recording, then you might have to look at some other platforms out there.

Susan: Hi, my name is Susan. I'm a Tech Ninja. I give Zoho Meeting a five out of five rating. For more reviews like this, click link below. Probably, most everybody else was Zoom. I switched primarily because I was using Zoho One and it was integrated with that. So one of the reasons I chose Zoho meeting is because it's integrated with Zoho CRM, so everything's in one place. But actually, I found a lot of features within Zoho Meeting that I like better than Zoom. One of the features was that when I was using Zoom, if I wanted to share a video with someone, I would have to download it and then email them because my storage on Zoom was getting filled up. With Zoho Meeting, once I record a video, it sends me an email with the link embedded, and all I'll have to do is forward that email link to my customer and they can just click on it. So, it was a lot less steps for me to do a meeting share like that. The other thing I like is there's actually a lot of features within Zoho. They had a chat area where I can take notes, besides the chat, and share that with people on the call. So there were just some features that Zoom may have integrated since I switched about a year ago, but there's some things in Zoom that I had never seen in Zoom... Or Zoho that I had never seen in Zoom before. So, that was really good. As far as integrating Zoho Meeting, it was pretty easy for me because I have been in tech for a while. It was a little disconcerting for my customers, because they were so used to Zoom that there was a little bit of a learning curve, but not much. Once they realized this was very similar to Zoom, it worked really well for them as well. So if you're looking for something else besides Zoom, I recommend Zoho Meeting as an alternative. One of the reasons I really made the switch is because I'm using Zoho One, I'm paying a fee of $37 per month for all the tools within Zoho One. And there are a lot. Zoho Meeting is just one of them. But one of the other things was just by integrating my invoicing and my meetings into Zoho, I was paying initially with Zoom and FreshBooks, $40 a month, and I'm only paying $37 a month with Zoho Meeting. So if you're looking to consolidate not only your tools as well as your cost into something, I recommend Zoho One as an alternative. But test it out.