TOP 5 Video Meeting & Online Conferencing Apps
The ultimate list of mobile apps for live video meetings, co-working and collaborations

During quarantine (lock-down), many businesses have to switch to remote work, and it’s very challenging for business owners to maintain current work processes, power up productivity, keep all of the projects running smoothly and improve workflow. The same can be said about the education system — meetings are moving online and it’s no secret that online co-working is a must.
Collaborative mobile apps and platforms came to rescue in this complicated situation. Due to COVID-19, many folks around the world and students are using collaborative mobile apps for online classes and sessions.
Productivity at online workplace
Co-working apps give remote teams the ability to be more productive and to achieve goals faster, increase problem-solving skills, and simplify the workplace experience.
Conferencing and collaborative mobile apps allow companies and classrooms to have audio and video interactions with a range of features like desktop sharing, whiteboards, webinars, chats. Also, they give faster access to knowledge, more comfort to co-workers, students and teachers to share their ideas, visualize them in real time. By using innovative technologies learning will be more fun, innovative, and engaging.

Why we’ve selected these 5 mobile apps and what’s going on in the market of collaborative mobile apps.
We’ve selected 5 top rated communication mobile apps considering listed below points:
- Whether the program is free or paid.
- There is support for video conferencing or just face-to-face conversations
- Data privacy
- The number of members.
- Limits of time.
- Is it possible to record calls, share files.
- Ratings in the online stores, reviews of users.
Apps we present here are competitive in the market, offer great functionality, affordable in terms of price, comfortable to work with big or small teams and allow us to keep up with the working or learning process effectively.
Which mobile apps are most useful for students, teachers and co-workers.
Zoom
Before the epidemic, Zoom was one of the most popular video conferencing services. But it was mainly used by the business.

Because of the lock-down in various countries, Zoom joined even more and more companies, universities, schools and even government institutions that switched to remote work. And after them millions of people, specially freelancers joined the platform who are now studying or just chatting with friends from home.
Zoom is easy to use and very intuitive for scheduling meetings, it has a clean and simple interface, and the easy-to-use user experience engaged even school children. It offers meetings and chats with HD video, audio, Conference Rooms and Workspaces to run video meetings, also enterprise cloud phone system, video webinars. Zoom allows to host up to 100 participants for free. The basic plan has a 40 minutes time limit on meetings with three or more total participants.
Rating in App Store: 4.5, Google Play: 3.9. Zoom has 4 plans: Basic (free), Pro ($14.99/mo), Business ($19.99/mo), Enterprise ($19.99/mo) which are priced based on the included features and the total number of hosts.
Pros:
- affordable cost
- unlimited one-on-one meetings
- ability to share slides and content
- virtual backgrounds
- recording meeting to the cloud
Cons:
- poor security
- strong internet capability is a must
- time limits
Our rating: 9/10 stars.
Google Meet
The Hangouts Meet service is now called Google Meet. Any user with a Google account can create a video meeting on Google Meet.

The app has no anonymous access. Advanced features for video conferencing in Google Meet, such as the ability to gather a large number of participants (up to 250), as well as to conduct live broadcast and recording, will be available for free to G Suite users until September 30, 2020. Google Meet supports chats, group chats, audio calls, video calls, video conferencing, file sharing. It has the ability to record meetings and save them to Google Drive. This app is light, responsive and loads fast. It’s a really good solution for small teams .
Rating in App Store: 1.6, Google Play: 3.8. To support you during this crisis, Google has opened free access to advanced opportunities for video conferencing in the Google Meet service to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers.
Pros:
- totally free
- a large number of participants
- syncs well with other products of Google
Cons:
- sound quality and sound features aren’t the best
- some capabilities are available only to G Suite customers
- poor functionality
Our rating: 9/10 stars.
FaceTime
This app is available only on the App Store. It’s Apple’s built-in video and voice-calling app.

Pros:
- high security
- use effects to become an Animoji
- no necessary to download an app
- totally free
Cons:
- requires to use a specific type of device
- not available for all countries
Our rating: 8/10 stars.
LiveBoard
This application will make the teaching process easier, and our staff consider this is one of the best solutions among applications for educational institutions

LiveBoard remembers all the changes made, it is possible to go back and forth to find the necessary change.
Rating in App Store: 4.8, Google Play: 3.9. Most users are registered from the USA, European countries, especially from Spain, France, Germany, as well as from India. LiveBoard is free to download, but has in-app purchases, gives one-week free trial, also offers 4 plans: Classroom ($5/mo), Online Tutoring ($10/mo), Online Tutoring Pro ($30/mo) and School ($99/mo).
Pros:
- real-time drawing and whiteboard sharing
- creations sharing via social media
- unlimited board space
- unlimited Groups
- cloud storage
Cons:
- doesn’t support copy-paste functionality
- sometimes the app crashes when the board opened
Our rating: 9/10 stars.
Messenger Rooms
Recently, Facebook has announced a new service for online communication – Messenger Rooms. It is designed for video conferencing, which has become especially popular in the period of isolation and lock-down.

Rating in App Store: 4.3, Google Play: 4.2
Pros:
- AR abilities
- no time limits
Cons:
- low amount of members
- poor functionality
- Facebook data privacy is unreliable
Our rating: 9/10 stars.