Hangouts
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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.
Discontinued
Beginning November 1, 2022, Google Hangouts on web will redirect to 
Google Chat on web, and Hangouts will no longer be accessible.
Hangouts Features
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Supported Languages
- English
- Afrikaans
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Khmer
- Catalan; Valencian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Lao
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Panjabi, Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Chinese
- Sinhala, Sinhalese
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
- Zulu
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- calling
- google-apps
- sms-web-service
- voice-applications
Recent user activities on Hangouts
Inirdin thinks Signal is an alternative to Hangouts
POX edited Hangouts- POX added Hangouts as alternative(s) to Google Chat
I rarely use it, mainly for work conferences. Doesn't crash, doesn't freeze. Everything suits me.
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.
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.