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!
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Android Wear
Beginning November 1, 2022, Google Hangouts on web will redirect to 
Google Chat on web, and Hangouts will no longer be accessible.
Features
- Screen Sharing
- Video Calling
- Multi Device Support
- Video Conferencing
- VoiP Calls
Gmail integration- Sync with Gmail
- Sms from PC
- SMS Messaging
- Desktop Application
- WebRTC
- Voice messages
Tags
- sms-web-service
- voice-applications
- google-apps
- calling
- Video Chat
Hangouts News & Activities
Recent News
- IanDorfman published news article about Hangouts
Google Hangouts shutting down November 2022, users being guided to Google ChatGoogle has announced that it is official shutting down Google Hangouts this November, leaving Googl...
Recent activities
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What is 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 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.
Hangouts information
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Proprietary and Free product.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
Among my favorite chat clients, it’s really a shame that google is going to discontinue it at the end of 2021.
It was the easiest way to sync messages across all operating systems and mobile devices.
Google Hangouts is suddenly consuming 7 MB per day over mobile connection. To send a few plain text messages? It's ridiculous. I turned off the "Improve Hangouts" option but it didn't help.
[Edited by endolith, March 05]
[Edited by endolith, July 16]
This doesn't seem to happen anymore, but it's a bit dirty that Google embraced, extended and extinguished other chat protocols like AIM. It used to use an open-source protocol but then Google decided the walled garden would make them more money? Sigh.
I rarely use it, mainly for work conferences. Doesn't crash, doesn't freeze. Everything suits me.
One of many chat tools
I still use hangouts, but I find it severely lacking in several aspects:
Now that they support multiple account video calling.
Simply works - on desktop in browser and on mobile phone. No chat however.