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Google Hangouts Description

Use Hangouts for staying in touch. You can message contacts, make free voice or video calls, and start a conversation with one or more people.

* Add all your contacts to group chats for up 150 people.
* Get more from status messages, photos and videos, maps, stickers, emojis, and animated GIFs.
* Convert any conversation into a group video call with up 10 contacts.
* Call any number worldwide (and all calls to Hangouts users are completely free). .
* Connect your Google Voice account to phone calling, SMS texting and voicemail integration.
* Stay in touch with your contacts across Android, iOS and the web. You can also sync chats across all of your devices.
* You can message contacts at any time, even if they are offline.

Pricing

Free Version:
Yes

Integrations

Reviews - 27 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
Google
Year Founded:
1998
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
www.google.com

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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
iPhone
iPad
Android
Type of Training
Documentation
Customer Support
Not Offered

Google Hangouts Features and Options

Team Communication Software

Activity / News Feed
Audio Calls
Calendar Management
Chat / Messaging
Discussion Threads
File Sharing
Mobile Access
Push Notifications
Search
Surveys & Feedback
Task Management
Video Conferencing

Web Conferencing Software

Electronic Hand Raising
Mobile Access
On-Demand Webcasting
Presentation Streaming
Presentation Tools
Private Chat
Real-Time Chat
Record & Playback Ability
Screen Sharing
Two-Way Audio & Video
Video Conferencing
Whiteboard

Video Conferencing Software

Electronic Hand Raising
Mobile Access
On-Demand Webcasting
Presentation Streaming
Presentation Tools
Private Chat
Real-Time Chat
Record & Playback Ability
Screen Sharing
Two-Way Audio & Video
Video Conferencing
Whiteboard

Team Chat Software

End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)
File Sharing
Groups / Channels
Payments
Search / Filter
Self-Destructing Messages
Stickers / GIFs
Threaded Discussion
Video Conferencing
Voice Calling

Messaging Software

End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)
File Sharing
Groups / Channels
Payments
Search / Filter
Self-Destructing Messages
Stickers / GIFs
Threaded Discussion
Video Conferencing
Voice Calling

Screen Sharing Software

Annotations / Drawing Tools
Desktop / Browser Sharing
Mobile Screen Sharing
Presenter Control Management
Remote Control
Screen Capture
Screen Mirroring
Screen Recording

Google Hangouts Lists

  • Name: Hillary L.
    Job Title: Manager
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great back office communication tool

    Date: Jul 07 2021

    Summary: Overall, Hangouts is quick and easy to use and saves valuable time, which is important for me as a small business owner. It's like texting between employees and you can create groups too.

    Positive: I love Hangouts because it's so easy to use and so quick. Even the app is instant. This literally saves hours on the phone and it's also easy to scroll back to get information. Attach photos or screenshots for a coworker to see or paste a client message for clarification. It's instant and has little pings to let me know when my message has been answered.

    Negative: There's not much I don't like, but I do wish that there was a search bar within Hangouts to facilitate searching for a particular strand of a conversation/ information.

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  • Name: Rene M.
    Job Title: US Marketing Manager
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    We can migrate instant messaging communication management to Google Hangouts

    Date: Apr 12 2021

    Summary: Although there are some minor errors when sending multimedia content, this application is a good tool and alternative to instant messaging applications such as Telegram or WhatsApp. It has very useful functions that can be exploited professionally such as video conferencing, transfer of editable documents and much more.

    Positive: As a company, we have determined that Google Hangouts is an instant messaging alternative that can be adapted to purely professional functions. The application provides extensions with G-mail and from your inbox we can check emails and in turn answer messages with our work group with the internal chats of the application, in addition to having all the tools that applications like these present.

    Negative: We have been presented with errors when sending multimedia content in group chats, the application throws format error and discards it. When this happens there is no way to send it so we must resort to another messaging channel or otherwise opt to use the email tool to send the image, presentation or video.

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  • Name: Steven R.
    Job Title: Senior Remote Freelance Content Writer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Google Hangouts makes professional and personal messaging easy and simple

    Date: Mar 30 2021

    Summary: It is highly recommended to use this application and extension to replace other instant messaging methods such as WhatsApp. We have used the tool for purely professional functions. It still has minor bugs that do not allow certain functions such as attaching multimedia on occasion, but it is an excellent option for segmenting participants of a work group through conversation invitations.

    Positive: It has a very simple platform that can be easily used by anyone. We find it very convenient that it can be used from the Gmail inbox which allows us to have visibility into emails and Hangouts private messaging. Also, the mobile app has video calling integration, private chats and more.

    Negative: There are some glitches that come with installing Google Hangouts for mobile devices. Sometimes when you try to copy an image from another application, it discards it and does not allow under any circumstances to send it and it becomes difficult in case of immediate transfer of images for, for example, a presentation.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Office Manager
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Google Hangouts is the best!

    Date: Dec 15 2020

    Summary: Hangouts does a great job! I love that they're trying out new features (like being able to choose a background for your video). It's so easy to use!

    Positive: Everyone from my company works from home, so it's super helpful that any time we need to have a meeting or talk something over, we can just hop on a Google Hangouts link for as long as we need.

    Negative: Sometimes the connection gets buggy after about an hour, but we normally just hop off and on again real quick and it isn't an issue.

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  • Name: Sadaf S.
    Job Title: Teacher
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Good chatting application

    Date: Nov 05 2020

    Summary: Overall Google Hangouts is vastly used application and we can easily connect with our friends and family through their phone numbers or Gmail addresses. We can use Google Hangouts on any of our device free of cost and it has applications for every system.

    Positive: Google Hangouts is very useful chatting application with features of video and audio calling. It is an easy to use application and we can send instant messages to our friends and family or contact them through video or audio call by any of our device as it has support for all devices and operating systems.

    Negative: Google Hangouts is a good chat app but video calls stutters sometimes on little low internet bandwidths.

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  • Name: Rabail J.
    Job Title: Teaching Assistant
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Connect people with ease

    Date: Oct 03 2020

    Summary: Overall Google Hangouts is nonetheless convenient and easily available communication tool on all of our devices with any OS.

    Positive: Google Hangouts is serving the people since long time to communicate and connect with other in the easiest way. Google hangouts is widely used in the world as it is used along Gmail which is one of largest email service in the world, so hangouts is readily available to almost every other person around the globe.

    Negative: Online and offline notifications of your friend list are not as per the actual status, as mostly it keeps on showing online status of the people although they have signed out.

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  • Name: Maryam K.
    Job Title: E-Learning Instructor
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Good for the personal and business virtual meetings.

    Date: Oct 02 2020

    Summary: Overall I like Google hangouts for many reasons but the main reason is that, we have a readily available reasonably good communication tool with our Gmail accounts and we can use it while checking out our emails on the same page of the web.

    Positive: Google hangouts provides simple and polished interface for virtual communication with people in numerous ways like text, audio and video additionally we can share pictures, files and other data with each other very conveniently.

    Negative: There are some limitations in file sharing feature of Google Hangouts and it doesn't support all files types and need some advancement in this regard.

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  • Name: Hilda R.
    Job Title: Teacher
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Google Hangouts allows people to hangout virtually.

    Date: Sep 30 2020

    Summary: Overall Hangouts is a decent, strong and capable of many features for communication. It is the part of google and gmail applications, so we don't need to create a different account for the use of this tool.

    Positive: Google hangouts is one of the best and oldest software for communicating with your colleagues, friends and family in numerous ways. Through this application we can text, voice and video chat with people we love, while away from home. We can also share file and photos with our friends through Google hangout.

    Negative: Removing any body from friend list is not possible in this tool although we can block them, but it is annoying that we can't remove them from the list of connected people.

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  • Name: Ramesh S.
    Job Title: Senior Technical Support
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Rich Communication service

    Date: Jul 14 2020

    Summary: It's a prominent team communication platform. We use to get connected with each other using its rich video and messaging service. We also used this on Slack app integration, which we can easily enter the command and start its service within the slack app.

    Positive: #1- It has a rich video and instant messaging service.
    #2- It also integrates with the Slack app, gives you perform an action within the slack app.
    #3- Mobile version support is also available.
    #4- Group video call or group chat is easily possible.

    Negative: #1- We had overall positive experience with Hangouts.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Consultant
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    It's more flexible with screen sharing which makes team collaboration easy

    Date: Jul 08 2020

    Summary: Great experience with online video conferencing and easy to hold online meeting.
    It's more cost effective and user friendly.
    Reliable with screen sharing for presentations.

    Positive: I like how it's easy to collaborate as a team with project management.
    It's more cost effective and very affordable.
    Easy to hold online video conferencing and it's user friendly.

    Negative: Great customer support and more user friendly interface.

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  • Name: Mohit V.
    Job Title: Operation manager
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Business and Personal Communication tool

    Date: Jul 03 2020

    Summary: Finding an app that uses in business and personal use is very rare. But Google Hangouts is one of them, you can use video conferencing and messaging for both office and personal use. Its app makes it easy to communicate with family too.

    Positive: Google Hangouts let you make international calling free. Application is available on the web, mobile makes perfect for business and personal use. Video conferencing is very clean.

    Negative: Google Hangouts handles video conferencing pretty well. No cons.

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  • Name: Chet N.
    Job Title: Ceo
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    My favorite way to meet

    Date: Apr 17 2020

    Summary: Overall it's amazing. They've done a great job in making this software work and reliable for all users.

    Positive: I like the ease of this and how it works so easily with Gmail. Definitely my go to for meetings or any type.

    Negative: There aren't really any cons of what I don't like.

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  • Name: Ankit K.
    Job Title: Systems Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great for formal chats and communications.

    Date: Aug 11 2022

    Summary: Overall, Google Hangouts is a great tool for interaction between colleagues and teammates. The application is light and easy to use.

    Positive: 1. It works flawlessly with low bandwidth internet connections.
    2. It supports chat, audio and video calls.
    3. The user interface is simple and well optimized.
    4. It is lightweight and does not consume a lot of data.
    5. It seamlessly integrates with other google applications.

    Negative: 1. It does not support setting any backdrop during calls in the background.
    2. The notifications can be improved.

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  • Name: Balwinder B.
    Job Title: SDE
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great tool for instant messaging and virtual meetings.

    Date: Jun 17 2022

    Summary: Overall, Google Hangouts can be a very useful tool in organization working with a lot of Google applications. It gets seamlessly integrated with other google applications and synchronizes all the data, resulting in increases productivity and smooth workflow.

    Positive: - Hangouts allows chatting, file sharing, calls and video calls all at one place.
    - It can be accessed directly from mobile, desktop or tablets.
    - Meetings gets synchronized easily with Google calendar, and it also allows seamless integration with other Google applications.
    - User interface of the application is simple and minimal.

    Negative: - The call quality is not reliable, as it gets distorted with low speed internet.
    - The away status can not be changed manually and gets implemented automatically.

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  • Name: Prithvi K.
    Job Title: Kotlin Developer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    A minimal chatting application from Google.

    Date: Feb 03 2022

    Summary: Overall, Google Hangouts is an easy to use chatting application great for team collaborations. It can be set up easily with just a Google account.

    Positive: - It runs smoothly on laptops, mobile and tablets.
    - It syncs with all the Google application like Google Calendar automatically.
    - The user interface of the application is minimal and easy to use.
    - It can also be used directly from the Gmail application.
    - The application is quite easy to set up as it only requires a Google Account.

    Negative: - It only has limited features for chatting.
    - It does not support many third-party integrations.

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