Google Hangouts Reviews

Name: Google Hangouts
Brand: Google
Rating: 4 (53 reviews)

4.1 out of 5

53 reviews
92% willing to recommend

What is Google Hangouts?

Hangouts Chat makes it easy for teams to be able to get their work done in one place. From direct messages to group conversations, Chat helps teams collaborate easily and efficiently.

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Google Hangouts is the #5 ranked solution in top Virtual Meetings solutions. PeerSpot users give Google Hangouts an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Google Hangouts is most commonly compared to Zoom: Google Hangouts vs Zoom. Google Hangouts is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 97% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 97% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Biswajith Gopinathan

Data Analytics Specialist at GlaxoSmithKline

I use the product on a quarterly basis in a year, specifically to attend some meetings. I also use the product to help my children attend some online classes The most valuable features of the solution are its ability to allow the sharing of screens and the way it allows a user to take control of…

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Olivier Bourdon

Senior Software Developer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

We also use Slack. We use a lot of Google solutions as our corporate mail is Gmail. I’ve also used Skype (as a corporate account) and Zoom. That was in previous companies. Zoom was okay, however, as far as my computer was concerned, it was 100% CPU usage, so I don't like it so much. We had some issues sometimes sharing when I had several screens on my desk. Sometimes when you don't share a good screen, it's very difficult to come back. With Skype, it has been a long time since I have used it. However, I recall it was very basic. It doesn't have the same capabilities as seen in Google Hangouts.

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HaiPham

Managing Director at sea-solutión

If we need to hold an online meeting, we use Google Hangouts The solution is useful for virtual meetings. I like that we can do voice or video calls. There are also screen-sharing capabilities. It is straightforward to set up the solution. It's very easy to use. The product is stable. I find…

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Google Hangouts mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Google Hangouts in the Virtual Meetings category stands at 0.2%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The product is stable."
"Google Hangouts is user-friendly. It supports low internet bandwidth."
"It's integration with Google is the valuable feature."

Room for Improvement

"The platform's screen-sharing feature and the participant panel could be improved."
"The improvement needs to be done as per customer requirements."
"One area where I see room for improvement in Google Hangout is the voice quality during meetings."

Pricing

"I don't need to buy Google Hangouts separately because it comes free with Google Workspace, and it is also available for my personal Gmail ID."
"There is a need to make certain payments towards the licensing costs attached to the product and some other tools that are included in the suite offered by Google. Google Hangouts alone as a product is available for free."
"For individual use, there's no license requirement as such. For storage or some other purposes, if I go beyond 15 GB, then I need to buy something."

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