Zoom

Video meetings, with chat, phone and docs bundled around them

Zoom is a video meetings platform that has grown into a wider work suite marketed as Zoom Workplace: alongside meetings it carries Team Chat, a cloud phone system, mail and calendar, a scheduler, whiteboard, clips and documents in the same app. Meetings themselves cover HD video with gallery view, screen sharing, breakout rooms, recording, live transcripts and captions, with a 40-minute limit on group calls for free Basic accounts. Its AI layer, ZoomMate, summarises meetings and chat threads, writes notes and answers questions across the workspace. Separate product lines cover Zoom Rooms for meeting spaces, Webinars and Events, and a Contact Center for customer service teams.

  • HD video meetings with gallery view, screen share and breakout rooms
  • 40-minute limit on group meetings for free Basic accounts
  • Team Chat with channels, threads and file sharing
  • ZoomMate summarises meetings and chat threads, and writes notes
  • Live transcripts and captions during a meeting
  • Cloud phone system, mail, calendar and scheduler in one app
  • Whiteboard, Clips, Docs and Canvas alongside meetings
  • Zoom Rooms for meeting spaces, plus Webinars and Events

What people are saying about Zoom

49% neutral
“I wanna be at home talking to people on zoom in my shorts and slippers than in my grey office box listening to Joanne bitch about everything. I don't understand why we're all here it makes us less productive imo not more.”
ConcretePolarBear · reddit ·
“This is part of why zoom meetings are hard! You have to sit up straight.”
curmudgeon_andy · reddit ·
“My favorite are the Zoom calls with foreigners. Because nothing says synergy like watching them outsource juniors and forcing you to commute to help facilitate.”
Far_Comfortable_991 · reddit ·
“Yeah, I make calls for non demons or zooms but just tell them in advance that camera off is fine. Honestly, texting is the best for me.”
-MaximumEffort- · reddit ·
“You just need a separate recording device if you can't screen record on the same device you're using for Zoom.”
jellyd0nut5 · reddit ·
“Alternatively you can use apps like Granola or Fireflies to capture meeting audio through your computer.”
imref · reddit ·
“can I ask and please explain it like im 5 what do you guys actually achieve in these meetings and zoom calls cos u seem to do alot of them”
Mysterious_Swan_7622 · reddit ·
“I sit in my office to have zoom calls with people who sit next to my office.”
Strange-Shoulder-176 · reddit ·
“Wait until everyone on the zoom call are in the same office.”
GuyLeChance · reddit ·
“It’s a hassle to commute for work that is done via teams and zoom, plus my segment and team are spread out globally so to accommodate time zones we are all forced into working non standard hours at least once a week which for me is a 7 am zoom meeting.”
Armorer- · reddit ·
“Why am I commuting 45 minutes to an office just to sit on Zoom calls with people in other states?”
Citadel_Fury · reddit ·
“Nope but I would suggest do a trial period with just a zoom meeting with yourself and the camera on + say something to see if quickplayer records the mic when you talk”
Feeling-Win1399 · reddit ·
“I've been using the AI in zoom lately to get summaries and transcriptions and it's been fantastic to help. If you have access to it I would install it and use it.”
_KnacK_ · reddit ·
“I need a space quiet space where I can take and participate in a zoom meeting for as little cash as possible. Ideally free, but I can buy a little something to reserve a spot if necessary.”
LogothX · reddit ·
“Zoom Annotation Flaws Could Let a Meeting Participant Hijack Another Attendee's Client”
Kahuna797 · reddit ·
“I have used this to record zoom calls successfully.”
FlintHillsSky · reddit ·
“Is there any way I can record zoom meetings with audio? I am not the host of the meeting and Host won't be recording because they're not tech savvy.”
Aromatic_Corgi8290 · reddit ·
“I use Zoom Webinar Plus with Zoom Production Studio. In Zoom production Studio, you allow all the panelists to share their slides at the same time before the webinar starts. Then each panelist will see their own speaker notes on one screen and they can pin the "live view" which is what the attendees see to their main monitor.”
Upbeat_Ad_2244 · reddit ·
“It was pretty quick since his zoom kept crashing lol. He also said the first zoom wasn’t mandatory participation as well!”
OkEconomist1252 · reddit ·
“What’s the point of being fully in-office if all meetings are Teams/Zoom meetings? 😭”
quesadalila · reddit ·
“For the post-webinar side, I use CertFusion to automatically issue attendance certificates from the Zoom attendee report.”
staticmaker1 · reddit ·
“FYI, anyone can record a Zoom meeting with any one of many screen recorders and they can distribute the recording anywhere - not legally of course. This is not just a Fireflies issue.”
wells68 · reddit ·
“I believe the answer here is no, but… I am hosting a Zoom Webinar and will be in control of sharing the PowerPoint presentation. I will be handing slide control off to multiple presenters during the webinar. Is there any way for the presenters to see their speaker notes?”
iamretxed · reddit ·
“I have been using Ecamm Live to run a broadcast style zoom meeting for 400-500 sales agents each week. It has been the only tool I found that can allow me to produce the video feed and pull “guest speakers”, set scenes trigger overlays etc.”
CorporateKid · reddit ·
“ok, because it zoom also has auto "recording in progress" notification ability.”
cyanydeez · hn ·
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