Zoho Meeting vs Spoke: Which is a better fit?

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.

Dave: Hi, my name is Dave and I'm a director of a design agency. And today I'll be reviewing Spoke, which I give five out of five stars. For more reviews like this, click on the link below. Before using Spoke, I was using really a variety of just sort of manual tools like writing on paper, just trying to put down notes on documents. If it was on the computer, it was just sort of random documents and folders. So it is very hard to keep track of meeting notes with people, not to mention being able to go back and reflect and review those notes. What I love about Spoke is that it automatically records and transcribes all of the meetings that I joined. This is great because I no longer have to try to have to kind copy down notes when I'm in a meeting. I can focus on who's talking and then later go back, check the transcriptions and review my notes, add in additional context. And if that wasn't enough, Spoke makes it super easy to share clips of the meetings, both video and the transcriptions. And I can even highlight with different colors different parts of the video and transcripts that I can then make it actionable items or I can gather different insights from it. So it just really makes it easy to create a summary of a meeting and then share that information with other people. I'm also really excited about the new summarization feature that they're going to be launching soon and the connections to notion, which will just really help streamline my note taking process. So I really love this tool. It has become one of my favorite tools. It's really great. Getting started with Spoke is very easy. Pretty much setup account, and you're good to go. I mean, you can just plug in your Zoom meeting or your calendar and it will auto join. And so just makes that whole process super easy at getting started. Anyone that's interested in Spoke, I would recommend the free plan. It's a great way to get started with it. And it's going to give you access to most of the features so you can test it out, use it in a meeting and see if it's useful for you. But I think most people really like it. If you're really looking for a way to speed up your note taking process, it's a great tool.