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Google Meet vs TextFree: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 13th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 2,712 reviews from VoIP users.
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Online Voice Transmission
NA
Mobile Access
4.6
Reporting & Statistics
NA
Call Routing
NA
Call Recording
4.6
% Fit
Missing features
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Online Voice Transmission
3.5
Mobile Access
NA
Reporting & Statistics
NA
Call Routing
NA
Call Recording
5.0
User satisfaction
4.5
User reviews11,895
Ease of use
4.6
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.3
4.0
User reviews34
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
3.9
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
3.7
Price starts from
/user
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
One-time payment
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Mobile and web-based google application that lets small to large businesses conduct voice/video calls among colleagues or business partners.

TextFree is an SMS marketing solution for small to large businesses.

User reviews
pros & cons
1 / 4
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1 / 4
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Video reviews
Babu A
Lead software developer
4.0

Babu: So myself, Babu, and I'm the leading software development team on a major platform in the company called British Car Auctions. We are based out of UK and Europe. I would rate not five, but just four for Google Meets because we mostly use Teams and Slack for the other purposes. We use Slack and Teams predominantly, but Google Meets is one of the key thing when we jump between the teams. I mean, for example, we are part of engineering team when we want to communicate with the business team or some other team internally communicating. Most of the leadership team, they prefer to use Google Meets, that's what we realized. But predominantly in the engineering team, we are using Teams and Slack. Microsoft Teams and Slack. It's not about any particular reason, but it's just the leadership team, they stick with the Google Meets instead. They don't want to use Microsoft Teams and Slack chat in the group. Whenever they want to communicate within other engineering teams or security teams, they usually schedule a meeting with Google Meets. We work from home, but literally leadership team, can join from anywhere. For security and other purposes, sometimes Microsoft Teams and Slack won't be available in public network with all the restrictions. That's the reason they go for. But we are pretty much okay with whatever we want to present all those things. It's the business leadership team's decision if they want to go for Google Meets. It's not a big deal because I believe it's not a basic setup which is needed for Slack and Teams organization and you need to give specific access through an EAD or support team. It'll be just like if you have a Google ID, it'll be more like accessing the Google Meets and all those things. But the thing is, if you want to use your official email ID, you need to create an email ID for your personal account, you can use it, but it's just advisable to use a company account. You need to map it. For example, my email ID would be a company email ID, then I need to map it to the Gmail one so that I can use the Google Meet. That's the one extra bit of process if you don't want to use the personal Gmail ID. I would say in rating purposes, I would not go for 10, but somewhere around eight. It's just they can use it like a backup or if they have any restricted content or want to use. Say they have some issues with Google Meet because they can't directly join into that Google Meet if they want to share any. Because it's about data governance, how data will be shared in this public portal. Because if you have Microsoft Teams and Slack, it'll be an enterprise account dedicated to your organization. But for Google Meet, I would say it'll be more of a general discussions or a business meeting. All those things. It'll be very handy instead of Microsoft Teams. So it'll be more of business discussions and general thoughts or any white board meetings. We can organize it in Google Meet so that anyone, like people joining from traveling can use it.

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Sarah B
SaaS Reviewer
4.0

Sarah: My name is Sarah and I am self-employed. I have a small business that is just myself. And I have to rate that scale probably for TextFree, maybe a four. On a day-to-day basis I use TextFree to contact my clients, people that work for me or other people that seek business with me, maybe people want to make corrections and things such as that. Also, it allows me to filter my phone calls better when I use my TextFree number. Most definitely, it would just be the filterization in general because I don't ever have to question if someone is calling my TextFree number for any other purpose other than my business. Every now and then I get a breakthrough call that is maybe from somebody else who previously owned the phone number. Now, that is the only dislike that I would have. I don't have it often though so it's not a huge deal. But every now and then I will get a call like that and normally they leave a message and it's something that's automated so I don't really stress about it.

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Google Meet

Top Features
8/44
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Auto-Dialer
  • Automatic Call Distribution
  • Call Center Management
  • Call Disposition
  • Caller ID
  • Call List Management
  • Call Monitoring
  • Call Queues
  • Call Reporting
  • Call Routing
  • Call Screening
  • Call Tracking
  • Call Transfer
  • Computer Telephony Integration
  • Contact Database
  • Contact Management
  • CRM
  • Customizable Reports
  • Fax Management
  • Interaction Tracking
  • IVR
  • Live Chat
  • Multi-Channel Communication
  • Online Voice Transmission
  • Queue Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • SIP Trunking
  • SMS Messaging
  • Unified Communications
  • Voice Mail
  • Voicemail Transcription
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Call Conferencing
  • Call Recording
  • Chat/Messaging
  • Mobile Access
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Video Conferencing
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TextFree

7/44
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Google Meet
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
TextFree
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Google Meet
  • By Google
  • Located in United States
TextFree
  • By Pinger
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2006
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