How to Build a Video Chat App: Types, Cost, & Must-Have Features

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Zoom Landing Page
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Zoom

Equip your team with tools designed to collaborate, connect, and engage with teammates and customers, no matter where you’re located, all in one platform.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $15.99 / Monthly (Pro - Great for Small Teams)
Zoom is one of the most, if not the most popular, video conferencing apps---it boasts 300 million daily active users (DAU). Notable features of Zoom include easy manipulation of the audio and visual settings, video recordings, a limited selection of emoji reactions, and sidebar chat.

#Communication #Online Meetings #Video Conferencing 196 social mentions
Mediasoup Landing Page
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Mediasoup

Mediasoup is a tool that is related to media streaming provides you rich scalability and performance with its robust selective forwarding unit.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Tool #Video 9 social mentions
Hopin Landing Page

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Hopin

Hopin (formerly Topi) connects people in a random world by giving serendipity a hand.

Hopin is a video conferencing application that specializes in supporting large virtual events for up to 100,000 participants. Hopin's video chat features include audience polls, quizzes, and Q&A sessions during live virtual events to keep attendees engaged. Users can also store and edit recorded video footage and gain deeper insight with the platform's built-in analytics.

#Event Management #Event Registration #Office & Productivity 11 social mentions
gstreamer Landing Page
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gstreamer

GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Video #Tool #Video Platform 15 social mentions
GraphQL Landing Page
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GraphQL

GraphQL is a data query language and runtime to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #JavaScript Framework #Web Frameworks 255 social mentions
Chat by Stream Landing Page
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Chat by Stream

Build and ship in app messaging in a few hours
Pricing:
- Open Source
Keep in mind that not every video or text-based chat SDK or API will be compatible with the structure of your existing app. That is why you and your engineers must deeply understand your app's underlying infrastructure and bandwidth required to transmit a high-quality video stream in real-time. Fortunately, many open-source projects and 3rd party vendors allow you to take a risk-free assessment of whether they are right for your application.

#Communication #Chat SDK #Voice And Messaging API 35 social mentions
Bunch Video Chat Landing Page

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Bunch Video Chat

Bunch is a group video chat app for multiplayer games.

Bunch is a group video chat app for games that requires access to the user's mobile contact list and lets them invite friends via iMessage, Bunch Code (a scannable QR code), Facebook, and other social media apps. You can't play the games yourself---first, you have to "start a party" (invite friends), and the multiplayer game starts when at least one of them accepts.

#Photo & Video #Social & Communications #Video 2 social mentions
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Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #IaaS 463 social mentions