Google Chat

Google Chat

159 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Chat	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Google Chat, formerly Hangouts Chat, is a collaboration tool competing with Slack, designed to make it easy for teams to be able to get their work done in one place. From direct messages to group conversations, Chat helps teams collaborate, and with dedicated, virtual rooms to house projects over time — plus threaded conversations — Chat helps users track progress and follow up tasks. Chat currently supports 28 languages and each room can support up to 8,000 members.	N/A

Pricing

Google Chat

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Pricing Offerings
Google Chat
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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	Google Chat
Considered Both Products	Google Verified User Chose Google Chat It doesn't need to much to get started if you have a personal Google account. If you have a business account setup by your organization, you need permissions to use it, however this is something good to have this customizable part from Google Chat. We can create groups, attach … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Weatbrook Sr Cloud Engineer in Information Technology at Motorola Solutions (Information Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Google Chat Slack has a few more features than Google Chat. Slack, for a long time, had thread chats that grouped a thread of thoughts together, making the main chat group space a lot less cluttered. A while back, Google Chat implemented a similar thing in a different but similar way, … Incentivized Helpful? Rezwan Karim Business Analyst in Information Technology at SaynBeauty (Cosmetics, 51-200 employees) Chose Google Chat Slack is actually expensive for larger teams, and their free plan has limitations on message history and file storage so that is the we moved to Google Chat. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat For the above platforms, it is always intended for the larger audience when your business communication has a limited stack you prefer choosing the best and simple communication platform rather than spending on a platform that charges per license. AS we need simple secure and … Incentivized Helpful? Anton Smyslov in Information Technology at Sunday (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Google Chat The main reason why we chose it - the overall G Suite solution, that we bought. We have Google Calendar, GMail & Chat built in. In order not to waste money - we decided to use Google Chat. It works fine, however, as said before, if you had experience with Slack - then you might … Incentivized Helpful? Anurag Kushwaha Software Engineer in Engineering at Inevitable Infotech (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Google Chat I use it because of it is already available into the google gmail so for using this I do not have to install any external software for this which can take the storage of my device for installation. The other software was taking much data in comparison to the Google Chat. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat You do not need to download anything when using Google Chat yet in Webex sometimes it does only work if you download a file. This is similar to Skype where you need to have the application on your computer. Google Chat has added a lot with the great support they have online. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Mays Division Manager in Sales at Heartland Payment Systems (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Google Chat Our organization uses the entire Google Suite of products, so the integration with Google Drive and especially Gmail made this decision a "no brainer". In canvassing most of our employees, many of them had more experience using this product as opposed to Skype, and the … Incentivized Helpful? Rishi Pal Deputy Manager at Centre of Innovation & Technology in Research & Development at Hero MotoCorp (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Google Chat Switched from Telegram to Google chat as it is more professional and it's integration with other google app is excellent Incentivized Helpful? carlos ibarra Director Operaciones in Marketing at Posicion Uno (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Google Chat Google Hangouts is the better app for saving chats. With Slack, you'll need to buy a premium license and if your team reaches more than 20 members then things can get expensive. Slack may be cheaper initially but as soon as somebody adds new employees or contractors they will … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat [Google Hangouts Chat] is low cost, easy to use, and built into most Android smartphones. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Martz Owner in Legal at Freeland Martz (Legal Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Google Chat I don't use Teams internally so as an outside user I find Google Chat easier to use and integrate into our overall software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat Compared to major products, I would say Google Hangouts Chat is very effective, affordable and resourceful. The ease of integration with other Google products makes it even better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat Google Hangouts Chat is better in many ways compared to other products. First, it is affordable. Secondly, integration with other Google products is straightforward. Thirdly and most importantly, I find Google Hangouts Chat more capable than other tools in its category. Incentivized Helpful? Mohd Mohsin Human Resources Business Specialist in Human Resources at BOLD Technology Systems Pvt. Ltd. (Internet, 501-1000 employees) Chose Google Chat Google hangout is very easy to install and you do not have to purchase this feature additionally, this comes with the google product. You can use this product even without installing the additional software. You can work while chatting with your colleagues easily. It can work … Incentivized Helpful? Vianne Marie Abulucion Agent in Sales at Sykes Asia (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Google Chat For me, I'd rather use Google Hangouts Chat than Microsoft Teams. Based on my experience Google Hangouts is way less complicated than Microsoft Teams. I don't like complicated and Microsoft Teams for me is complicated. Let's say for a first-time user for both platforms I'd say … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat Google Hangouts Chat is simple to use and understand unlike other complicated solutions. The software is affordable and offers great features and integration with other Google products is easy which is a plus. In a nutshell, I haven't used such a resourceful software and we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat It integrates much easier. Incentivized Helpful? Sizwe Mlotshwa, CSAE IT Technician and Security Analyst in Information Technology at MEDITECH South Africa (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Google Chat Since Google Hangouts Chat comes integrated with G-suite, it just works without any adjustments to our organization's workflows. Other products fail on that front and therefore are not encouraged to be used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat Hangouts was buggy and had frequent crashes, but Hangouts Chat has no such issues so far. Incentivized Helpful? Kristi R-C, CTS, CQT Electrician/Props/Wardrobe/Makeup Artist/Wigs in Engineering at IATSE (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Google Chat Schools, in my area at least, are not being allowed to use Zoom because of incidences of security breaches known as "Zoom bombs," so the schools here chose to use Google Hangouts Chat. That means if I want to talk to the kids or the teachers, I need to use Google Hangouts Chat. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat Prior to Google Hangouts, our company used Spark. Spark was not integrated into our email, therefore it couldn't be easily accessed in the same browser. With Spark we also couldn't search our emails for keywords in a conversation, searching had to be done manually. The one … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Chat Google Chat is very user friendly and I think it is using low level memory or ram we can say of system. Means it loads quickly, not taking too much time that other tools Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Google Chat

Comparison of Project Management features of Google Chat
Feature	Google Chat 8.4 23 Ratings
Task Management	8.013 Ratings
Gantt Charts	8.59 Ratings
Scheduling	9.015 Ratings
Workflow Automation	7.912 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.322 Ratings
Search	9.020 Ratings
Visual planning tools	7.011 Ratings

Comparison of Communication features of Google Chat
Feature	Google Chat 8.9 23 Ratings
Chat	10.023 Ratings
Notifications	10.023 Ratings
Discussions	8.321 Ratings
Surveys	8.515 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	9.012 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	8.08 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	8.216 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	9.07 Ratings

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Google Chat
Feature	Google Chat 9.0 23 Ratings
Versioning	8.716 Ratings
Video files	8.020 Ratings
Audio files	8.319 Ratings
Document collaboration	10.019 Ratings
Access control	9.516 Ratings
Advanced security features	10.017 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	8.116 Ratings
Device sync	9.321 Ratings

User Ratings
	Google Chat
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (3 ratings)