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Jitsi

Open-source video calling and chat platform. Created by Jitsi

Free Open Source
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Jitsi (previously SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator with full encryption that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, GTalk/Hangouts extensions, as well as OTR, ZRTP, etc.
It can handle every firewall, and has many other useful features.

Jitsi is completely open source / free software, and is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. It can run on your own server. More Info »

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Links to official Jitsi sites

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Features

Browser based Chat Cross-platform Desktop Sharing End-to-End Encryption File sharing Group chat iPhone/iPod sync Live Meeting Support for Multiple protocols Multiple Account support No download No installation required No Login Required OTR Plugins Privacy focused Privacy-friendly Share your screen Security & Privacy SIP SIP client Softphone Unlimited users Video calling Video chat Video Conferencing Voice chat WebRTC Xmpp Add a feature

Categories

Business & Commerce Development File Sharing News & Books Office & Productivity OS & Utilities Remote Work & Education Security & Privacy Social & Communications

Tags

aim-clients audio-conferencing conference-call-service conferenceapp external-contact-lists free-conference-call google-talk google-talk-client group-call hangouts icq-clients im-client instant-messaging instant-messenger jabber jabber-clients ldap msn-messenger open-source-projects opus-codec provisioning rss-feeds web-conferencing xfce xmpp-clients yahoo-messenger zrtp

Jitsi (sometimes referred to as SIP Communicator) was added by Amila in Nov 2010 and the latest update was made in Jul 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2020. It's possible to update the information on Jitsi or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Introduction to Jitsi

Call Window in an Audio/Video call.

Conference call.

Outgoing file transfer

File transfer preview

Invite others to the chat

Message History

A Video Conference with Jitsi Videobridge

A Call Window in an Audio/Video call.

Conference call

MORE APP INFO Official website

Reviews 10

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Jitsi Comments

Comment by Refalm

about Jitsi · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 4 Helpful Report as spam

Easy to use interface, supports conference options, fast and to the point, has a lot of great options.

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Can't get voipbuster to work with Jitsi

Comment by Yesero

about Jitsi · Oct 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

I open a voipbuster account in Jitsi. It shows online, but when I dial, nothing happens. What to do? I am using Ubuntu 11.11, 64 bit

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