Jitsi Meet
Secure, fully featured, and completely free video conferencing.
- Free • Open Source
- Video Calling App
- Group Chat App
- Instant Messenger
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Apple Watch
- F-Droid
What is Jitsi Meet?
Go ahead, video chat with the whole team. In fact, invite everyone you know. Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free — with no account needed.
What else can you do with Jitsi Meet?
- Share your desktop, presentations, and more
- Invite users to a conference via a simple, custom URL
- Edit documents together using Etherpad
- Pick fun meeting URLs for every meeting
- Trade messages and emojis while you video conference, with integrated chat.
Jitsi Meet is packed with premium features. Yep, it’s free — and it’s technologically advanced, too. In fact, Jitsi Meet:
- Sounds better, thanks to HD audio with Opus
- Is anonymous: No need for an account, ever!
- Keeps conversations private with encryption by default (and advanced security settings)
- Is developer-friendly: Modify and customize it to your heart’s content. It’s 100% open source.
Jitsi Meet is the successor of the legacy project 
Jitsi Desktop
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Jitsi Meet information
- Developed byJitsi.org
- LicensingOpen Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
- PricingOne time purchase (perpetual license)
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.7
- Alternatives131 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
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- 3.65 avg rating
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- 20,330 Stars
- 6,297 Forks
- 305 Open Issues
- Updated
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- Web Conferencing
- Video Chat
- Group Chat
- Chat Clients
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nogajun thinks Galene is an alternative to Jitsi Meet
Paul added Jitsi Meet as alternative(s) to Element X
Benjamin Lupton Upvoted a comment on Element as an alternative to Jitsi MeetIt's mostly a group chat app (like slack or mattermost) with a video call feature, not a dedicated video conferencing app ; and setting up a meeting is too much hassle (you have to get everyone to sign up for an account and tell you their handles and invite them to a persistent group chat) compared to just sharing a link in jitsi. It's good for teams doing calls frequently, not for a one-shot meeting with guests outside your organization.
Jitsi Meet (not to be confused with just Jitsi) is an extremely easy to use, browser based, end-to-end encrypted (and therefore private) Skype alternative. It's open source and free.
Privacy: End-to-end encryption between the people talking on Jitsi Meet means your video, audio and chat is very difficult, if not impossible to intercept and record by third parties. This means no company like Skype/others can record your conversations and analyze their content or give it away to marketing companies or spy agencies. (Note that Skype has been shown to record conversations for the NSA's prism program.)
Ease of use: To use Jitsi Meet you don't need to install anything. You need only a browser, and to go to https://meet.jit.si/. There, a link is generated at the top of the page and you click 'Go'. This will take you to a unique URL where your video chat can occur. Others can join you if you simply email them this link and they click on it. That's it. When you join the room, a simple pop-up box will ask you if you permit Jitsi Meet to use your microphone and camera. That's it.
Functionality: At the time of writing Jitsi Meet has many useful features. This includes: video, audio and chat, desktop sharing, a link to work on a shared document via etherpad.org and the ability to share YouTube videos. The functionality is essentially the same as Skype, except that you don't need to sign up or give away any personally identifying information. Additionally, you can do conference calls with several people. There is also a small function where you can opt to raise your hand to notify others that you would like the chance to speak (e.g. if you're running a meeting). If you like, it is also possible to set a password for your room, so that in addition to the URL link, visitors will need to know a password to be able to join you. I have spoken several times with friends from other countries, including trans-Atlantic connections, for hours without any major difficulties in connectivity or functionality.
Overall: For the fact that Jitsi Meet is open-source, end-to-end encrypted and has the same functionality as Skype without requiring sign up or any privacy-violating licence agreements, it should be loudly commended. It is an excellent project and I recommend it heartily to anyone who is looking for an alternative to Skype. (And all Skype users should be looking for a more private alternative.)
Note: You will have to have WebRTC is your browser enabled for Jitsi Meet to work. It is enabled by default in most browsers like Firefox or Chrome.
Note 2: If you have WebRTC enabled and you're using a VPN (e.g. you are protecting your real location from being detected), there is a risk that your real IP can get leaked. In that case, follow the advice on privacytools.io and browserleaks.com and consider using Jitsi (without the Meet) as an alternative via an XMPP server.
Totally superb review, John!
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The conversations are encrypted but not end-to-end encrypted: in the link I suggested they say "So what happens when there are more than 2 participants? Then the media gets routed through a server, our very own Jitsi Videobridge. Then encryption is done hop-by-hop. That is, media is decrypted by the bridge and encrypted again when sending it out. " Here https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet#security you can read "WebRTC does not (yet) provide a way of conducting multi-party conversations with end-to-end encryption. Unless you consistently compare DTLS fingerprints with your peers vocally, the same goes for one-to-one calls. As a result, your stream is encrypted on the network but decrypted on the machine that hosts the bridge when using Jitsi Meet." Here another interesting link: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/7syt0s/jitsi_meet_is_not_e2ee/
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Free, Open Source, Easy to use, no account needed, join by URL, perfect!
The best service for video conferencing, with ease of use and good privacy protection of my data!
I like the background features, screen sharing and waiting list to join calls.
During Covid, trying to get a social group which includes everything from Linux network administrators to fashion photographers who can't install applications on their four year old iPhone represented a problem.
Jitsi has dedicated applications for Android and iPhone, and apparently for Windows as well. But you can also just use your preferred browser, and share a common url, like https://meet.jit.si/mygroupsurl, and anyone can join.
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Those cons are all pretty minor. If you're just getting the gang together every Saturday night at 8pm, it's great.
its included in rocket chat. love it!
Easy to use, free, no limits, no installation or account needed. You can set a password once you go into the room.
Jitsi Meet works out of the box, is fast and reliable and has ton of small (and not so small) useful features.