Hangouts

Hangouts is a messaging app that lets you send and receive messages, photos and more, and even start free video and voice calls – one to one or with a group! "Hangouts" are places used to facilitate group video chat (with a...

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hangouts is a messaging app that lets you send and receive messages, photos and more, and even start free video and voice calls – one to one or with a group!

"hangouts" are places used to facilitate group video chat (with a maximum of 10 people participating in a single hangout at any point in time).

within the 10 person limit participants may use voice only phones to dial in to the hangout instead of the desktop or mobile video chat feature.

on a desktop or laptop environment hangouts also contain the integration of group chat, google document sharing, and synchronous viewing of youtube videos.

Links to official Hangouts sites

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Voice Call Gmail integration Group chat Multi Device Support Texting Voice messages WebRTC

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Hangouts

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The Best 49 Hangouts Alternatives

Telegram

WhatsApp Messenger

Slack

Discord

Tox

Signal

Viber

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Facebook Messenger

Wire

Mattermost

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Matrix.org

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