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  5. Amazon Chime vs Skype vs WebRTC

Amazon Chime vs Skype vs WebRTC

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Overview

Skype
Skype
Stacks17.3K
Followers13.5K
Votes653
WebRTC
WebRTC
Stacks322
Followers538
Votes6
Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime
Stacks32
Followers159
Votes0

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Detailed Comparison

Skype
Skype
WebRTC
WebRTC
Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime

Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.

It is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.

Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust. Amazon Chime works seamlessly across your devices so that you can stay connected. You can use Amazon Chime for online meetings, video conferencing, calls, chat, and to share content, both inside and outside your organization.

Calling- Make free Skype to Skype calls or call mobiles and landlines home and abroad at low rates.;Video- Catch up face to face or get a whole group together on a video call.;Messaging- You're always in the loop with instant messaging, voice messaging and sending texts.;Sharing- Send photos, videos and files of any size.
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Statistics
Stacks
17.3K
Stacks
322
Stacks
32
Followers
13.5K
Followers
538
Followers
159
Votes
653
Votes
6
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 258
    Free, widespread
  • 147
    Desktop and mobile apps
  • 110
    Because i have to :(
  • 57
    Low cost international calling
  • 56
    Good for international calls
Cons
  • 5
    Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare
  • 3
    Birthday notifications are annoying
  • 3
    Outdated UI
  • 3
    Not always reliable
  • 3
    The worst indicator noises of any app ever
Pros
  • 3
    OpenSource
  • 2
    No Download
  • 1
    You can write anything around it, because it's a protoc
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What are some alternatives to Skype, WebRTC, Amazon Chime?

Discord

Discord

Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.

Zoom

Zoom

Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Zoom Rooms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems.

Google Meet

Google Meet

It is the business-oriented version of Google's Hangouts platform and is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It allows users to dial in phone numbers to access meetings, thus enabling users with slow internet connection to call in.

Jitsi

Jitsi

Jitsi (acquired by 8x8) is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.

Webex

Webex

Collaborate with colleagues across your organization, or halfway across the planet. Meet online and share files, information, and expertise. Collaborate from wherever you are with Webex mobile apps for IPhone, iPad, Android, or Blackberry. If you can get online, you can work together.

Viber

Viber

It is a cross-platform instant messaging and voice over IP application provided as freeware for the Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS platforms.

Jami

Jami

It is a free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users. Its main goal is to provide a communication framework and end-user applications to make audio or video calls, send text messages and make generic data transfers. It makes this possible via multiple paradigms: a modern decentralized approach using a DHT to find peers or classical centralized SIP as a soft-phone.

TeamViewer

TeamViewer

Its aproprietary software for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers.

Hangouts

Hangouts

It is a communication platform which includes messaging, video chat, and VOIP features.

GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting

It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real time.

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