Hangouts

Name: Hangouts
Rating: 3.1 (12 reviews)

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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!

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Free • Proprietary

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United States

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iPhone
Chrome OS
Android Tablet
iPad
Google Chrome
Android Wear

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Discontinued

Beginning November 1, 2022, Google Hangouts on web will redirect to Google Chat icon Google Chat on web, and Hangouts will no longer be accessible.

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Screen Sharing
Video Calling
Multi Device Support
Video Conferencing
VoiP Calls
Gmail integration
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Sms from PC
SMS Messaging
Desktop Application
Voice messages
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Developed by
Google
Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.
Rating
Average rating of 3.1 (12 ratings)
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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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Office & Productivity, Social & Communications, Remote Work & Education

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Updated Dec 1, 2021
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Our users have written 18 comments and reviews about Hangouts, and it has gotten 1030 likes

Hangouts was added to AlternativeTo by Thelle Christensen on Mar 6, 2012 and this page was last updated Sep 6, 2022. Hangouts is sometimes referred to as Hangouts, Google Hangouts, Google Talk, GTalk, Google+ Hangouts.

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Comment summary: Hangouts receives mixed reviews with some users praising its speed and integration with other Google apps, proving faster than Skype or WhatsApp for messaging. However, complaints include its intrusive nature on devices, missing features like file transfers and limited support for multimedia such as GIFs and emojis. Users also express frustration over Google's removal of functions from Google Talk and its consumption of data. Hangouts' functionality in work settings is appreciated, though limitations are evident.

Top Positive Comment

Robby Storm

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Jul 6, 2022

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I rarely use it, mainly for work conferences. Doesn't crash, doesn't freeze. Everything suits me.

Top Negative Comment

endolith

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Mar 5, 2017

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.

Thunder Z

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Apr 2, 2020

-1

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.

Tom Margrave

CommentFeb 5, 2020

-2

One of many chat tools

Taurolyon

★

Jan 14, 2020

I still use hangouts, but I find it severely lacking in several aspects:

no dark mode
sub-par emojis and stickers
no search function for emoji's
no GIF functionality
no file transfer functionality
heavily compresses/resizes JPG
used to support phone SMS, but that functionality has since been dropped. (App still notifies me on non-SMS tablet devices).
should be merged or integrated with Google Voice. Google voice will send text and voicemail to hangouts, but you cannot use hangouts to send text or call using google voice. You can use the Hangouts Dialer (now abandonware) app to call using google voice, but that is yet another app you have to install.

Ryan Roberts

CommentAug 13, 2019

-1

Now that they support multiple account video calling.

Guest

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Feb 2, 2018

-2

Simply works - on desktop in browser and on mobile phone. No chat however.

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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.

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