We performed a comparison between Google Hangouts and GoToMeeting based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Virtual Meetings solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Google Hangouts is easy to use and intuitive."
"Google Meet has excellent audio quality, good images, and a robust set of features."
"The technical support team for Google Hangouts has been pretty responsive and could solve whatever challenges arise, within a day or two."
"The solution's stability is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The installation part of the product is easy since one generally needs to use a browser to use the product."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ability to allow the sharing of screens and the way it allows a user to take control of another system."
"Google Hangouts is very quick and easy to use, and the quality is very good."
"It's easy to set up."
"Screenshare is the most valuable feature as well as the number of meeting participants possible in a meeting. It also has good quality."
"GoToMeeting's security is very good. I've never known anybody to crash a GoToMeeting."
"The key advantage of GoToMeeting is the ability to use it without installing anything."
"Pricing is reasonable. It's not expensive. The pricing is one of the great selling points for the product."
"We like that this solution allows us to assign separate numbers to people without having to have a physical telephone system in place."
"The solution worked well specifically for audio meetings."
"We don't have any link issues whether you use it to browser, or use it as a client. It worked perfectly fine for us."
"The solution can be improved by integrating other tools."
"I would like to have a whiteboard feature, where I can draw a sketch or diagram and show it to the people in the meeting."
"Google Hangouts is not as feature-rich as Slack. Adding more features to this solution would make it better."
"It would be better to have a feature for recording the meetings in Google Hangouts."
"Collaboration in Google Hangouts has room for improvement compared to Microsoft Teams. On Microsoft Teams, you can share a document directly and work on that document all at once, in real-time, with other team members, which isn't the case with Google Hangouts."
"There is no delete option for messages which could be an added feature in a future release."
"Can be improved by including a larger library of video filters and adding custom filters."
"I would like to see support for showing virtual backgrounds."
"Sometimes we'll run into issues where firewall rules aren't set correctly and won't work."
"Manageability needs to be improved."
"The solution could always be more secure."
"The enrolment for a non-IT user should be easier. It should be simplified for non-IT users."
"I didn't like the fact that they tried to make their new version look like Zoom."
"In addition to the features it already has, I think GoToMeeting should also have additional features that are not present at the moment."
"The sound quality is good but the video quality needs improvement."
"GoToMeeting breaks down a lot. We're not sure if it's breaking down, but we start getting very erratic community channels. I don't know if it's because of GoToMeeting or if we're not buying enough bandwidth. Maybe it is just the infrastructure that it's running on. I'm not quite sure."
Google Hangouts is ranked 6th in Virtual Meetings with 51 reviews while GoToMeeting is ranked 10th in Virtual Meetings with 24 reviews. Google Hangouts is rated 8.2, while GoToMeeting is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Google Hangouts writes "A tool for personal use with good screen-sharing capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GoToMeeting writes "It features low latency, which is crucial because everybody is using VPN to connect to their PCs at work". Google Hangouts is most compared with Zoom, whereas GoToMeeting is most compared with Skype for Business, TeamViewer, Adobe Connect, Zoom and BlueJeans Meetings. See our GoToMeeting vs. Google Hangouts report.
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