We performed a comparison between Google Hangouts and TeamViewer 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."The facility is always online and very easy to share the screen using the solution."
"The solution's stability is the most valuable feature."
"Very good voice and video calling options."
"What I like best about Google Hangouts is its integration with other Google solutions, so scheduling is easy because you have the calendar. It also has a whiteboard feature. I also like its polling feature and that it even has a captioning feature."
"The ease of navigation is good, as we can easily share data and screens."
"Communication platform that's effective in project planning, project status communication, and virtual meetings. Setting it up is straightforward."
"Google Meet is a clear and simple solution."
"The most valuable feature of Google Hangouts is the ability to record the classes that I'm not able to attend. I can use the class recording to view whatever I missed later."
"It is quite simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature of TeamViewer is user-friendliness."
"The implementation process is simple."
"The most valuable feature of TeamViewer is its ease of use and beneficial remote access."
"The most valuable features of I use TeamViewer are the ease of access and frequent updates."
"This is a unique solution that is very easy to install."
"The most valuable feature of TeamViewer is the ability to remote into another device."
"TeamViewer is a scalable solution."
"The algorithm should be improved to automatically deal with poor connections in a better way."
"I would like to see support for showing virtual backgrounds."
"Google Hangouts could improve by allowing someone to record a meeting without the need to have a company email. You cannot record with a Gmail account."
"The solution could integrate more automation into the product."
"Maybe they should offer more security features."
"Google Hangouts could work on making the service better for slow connections."
"The solution can be improved by integrating other tools."
"Can be improved by including a larger library of video filters and adding custom filters."
"TeamViewer can improve by making the interface more user-friendly. It looks very basic, they can make it more modern and easy to use."
"Voice communication and screen communication or face-to-face communication could be improved."
"One thing I have noticed is that TeamViewer does not work so well when the machine you are trying to connect to remotely is not running the same version as your machine."
"The product can sometimes crash."
"You can't configure multiple, unattended control passwords on the Mac. On the Mac, there's only one. On Windows, there are multiple unattended control passwords. I have people in different departments. My infrastructure people need to control a server and my developers may need to go into that same server. But I don't want them to have the same password... on the Mac, it can be done but it's extremely clunky and problematic."
"It's pretty limited on the options they have."
"The stability of TeamViewer is good, but it could be better."
"It becomes complicated to switch from one monitor to another for different windows."
Google Hangouts is ranked 6th in Virtual Meetings with 51 reviews while TeamViewer is ranked 3rd in Virtual Meetings with 84 reviews. Google Hangouts is rated 8.2, while TeamViewer is rated 8.6. 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 TeamViewer writes "Solid cross-platform remote control, but with kludgy central management and some serious feature issues on macOS". Google Hangouts is most compared with Zoom, whereas TeamViewer is most compared with TeamViewer Tensor, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Parallels Access, ISL Online and LogMeIn Central. See our Google Hangouts vs. TeamViewer report.
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