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Jitsi Meet

Score8.2 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Jitsi Meet?

Jitsi is a set of Open Source projects that allow users to build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. Jitsi Meet is an Open Source WebRTC JavaScript application that uses Jitsi Videobridge to provide high quality, scalable video conferences. Jitsi is an 8x8 trademark.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Jitsi Meet has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 11 ratings of Jitsi Meet's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Calendar integration

    Scheduling capabilities integrate with users’ Calendars.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Meeting initiation

    Meetings can be easily initiated, whether they are scheduled or on the fly.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Mobile support

    Attendees can access meetings/webinars from mobile devices.

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Low bandwidth requirements

    Software is optimized so that meetings do not require a huge amount of bandwidth.

    Category average: 7.4

  • High quality video

    High quality video connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.

    Category average: 8.3

  • High quality audio

    High quality audio connection is consistently available, with few or no interruptions.

    Category average: 8.5

Reviews

What users are saying about Jitsi Meet.
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Jitsi Review

Chetan Patel
Presales in Sales at Sterlite Technologies Ltd (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Post Covid-19 beginning in India, IT companies have started to give work from home as the new norm and video conference systems are playing a vital role in this time. In search of a developed in-house video conference system, we come across Jitsi as an open-source designed and developed video conference and live event platform. Now, we have an in-house and secure communication platform that allows us to host conferences from within and outside organization members.

Pros

  • Video conference
  • Chat
  • Screen sharing
  • Audio and video control
  • Background changes
  • Customization on top of the base product

Cons

  • Scalability in terms of participation
  • End point hardware improvement
  • Stability of core
  • Video quality while load generates

Return on Investment

  • Scalability
  • Stability of base platform
  • Great community support
  • Continued enhancement by community

Other Software Used

Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams

Value for money

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Hosting meetings
  • Sharing screen
  • Business call
  • Personal call

Cons

  • Screen sharing is fluctuating which can be improved
  • It consumes a lot of bandwidth even while text sharing via screen share
  • Video quality can be improved for video calls

Return on Investment

  • During this global pandemic, it has been a very useful tool for setting up meetings and getting on with everyday office work.
  • Good quality audio to have a online phone call with anyone.

Alternatives Considered

Google Hangouts Meet and Zoom

Other Software Used

Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Powerpoint, iOS, Selenium, Wireshark, Ubuntu Linux

A tool that makes initiation of an online meeting easy

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Background changing
  • Screen sharing
  • Secure meeting room
  • Easy to join

Cons

  • Improve the quality of video during screen sharing, especially when we are sharing only test content.
  • It consumes a lot of bandwidth if we share our screen as well as open the camera.

Return on Investment

  • All in all, jitsi has made the communication between team members easy. Hosting a small meeting is not that difficult so people wo are working from home do not hesitate to start a meet whenever they feel needed.
  • Remote working is not possible without proper communication and jitsi has been used for communication in my organization. So, it has been a very usefull tool for us.

Alternatives Considered

Zoom, Google Hangouts Meet and Whereby

Other Software Used

TeamUp, Slack, Ubuntu Linux, Wireshark, Cypress.io