I regularly host online events like Learning Night, Creating Crew, and Idea Club, and I haven't yet settled on what proximity video chat app to use. So I decided to try them all.
There are more than 50 of these now and I created this repo because I wanted to keep track of them all in one place.
If you want to add your app, feel free to open a pull request to add your app to the list. You can list your app under the appropriate category in alphabetical order. If you want your app removed from this list, you can also open a pull request to do that too.
I tried every app here and wrote a short description of it based on my experience. If you are the owner of the app and want a different description, feel free to open a pull request to change it (the description must fit into one line).
These apps can be run directly in the browser.
- Airmeet: Virtual event networking platform
- Around: Enhanced video call software
- Bash: Throw an Online Party with video chats, virtual worlds, and games
- Branch: Spatial conversations for remote work
- Brella: Virtual event hosting platform for enterprise
- Calla: Simple, open-source proximity video calls
- Chatmosphere: Open-source proximity chat prototype
- CozyRoom: Peer-to-peer spatial audio environment
- CubeChat: Proximity call in 3D
- Gather: Isometric proximity chat with customizable virtual rooms, games, and embeddable iframes
- Gatherly: Online networking events platform built for enterprise
- GroupRoom: Spatial video chat with a virtual background and embeddable objects
- Happy Hour: Basic app to create breakout rooms
- High Fidelity: Live spatial audio platform and API
- Hopin: Virtual event platform for enterprise
- Hubbub: Host group video social events with fast dynamic conversation bubbles.
- Hubs by Mozilla: Private 3D social environment. Can also be used with a VR headset.
- inSpace: Proximity-chat virtual classrooms for educational institutions.
- iVent: Online event platform
- Kumospace: Customizable 2.5D virtual space with proximity chat
- Laptops in Space: Lightweight 3D meeting space with no registration required
- MakeSpace: Proximity chat with embeddable apps and objects
- Mibo: 3D networking, meetings, hanging out app in a virtual world
- Mixaba: Chatroutlette-like app for event planners
- PingPong: Collaboration for distributed teams in different timezones
- Pluto: First-person 3D virtual world
- Preciate: Recognition and rewards for teammates and virtual socializing for teams
- Qube: Virtual office for remote work
- Rally Video: Host virtual events where participatns can hop between breakout rooms with one click
- Rambly: Virtual space with a 90's style video game theme
- Remo: Webinars in a virtual office
- Reslash: Proximity-based avatar chat with a virtual background and embeddable objects
- Sococo: Online remote work collaboration space for enterprise
- SpatialChat: Proximity-based avatar chat with a virtual background and embeddable objects
- Speakeasy: Easily host an event to hang out with your friends
- Teamflow: Virtual office space for enterprise
- Topia: Proximity video chat in a customizable virtual world (does not support screensharing)
- TORB 2020: 1st person online conference
- Virbela: 3D world builder for enterprise
- Wave: Online concerts
- Wonder: Online virtual space to meet and talk
- WorkAdventure: Isometric map for remote working
These apps have the best experience when used on a phone rather than on the computer.
- Glimpse: Speed networking app
- Houseparty: Video rooms and games with your friends
- Icebreaker: Virtual networking and happy hour
These apps require you to purchase a separate video game (e.g. Minecraft, Among Us) to use as the virtual world.
- Activeworlds: Create your own 3D environment
- Crew Link: Proximity voice chat for Among Us. Free and open source.
- MCParks: Downloadable Minecraft maps that are 1:1 scale reproductions of theme parks
- MumbleLink: Proximity voice chat mod for Minecraft
- Skoice: Proximity Voice Chat running on Discord for Minecraft
These apps require a VR headset to use.
- AltspaceVR: Attend meetups with VR avatars
- Kitely: Self-hosted 3D virtual world
- Rec Room: Online universe for playing games with friends
- Sansar: VR Concerts
- sinespace: Social VR environment
- Somnium Space: VR world integrated with the blockchain
- Tivoli Cloud VR: Open-source inclusive metaverse
- Vircadia: Open-source 3D VR interface and server
- Vivecraft: Turn Minecraft into a VR experience
- VRChat: Social VR experiences, powered by creators; also works without a headset on Windows
These apps cannot currently be used because they are not open for signups, are broken, 404, or slow. They may have worked at some point in the past and are included here for completeness.
- Bramble: Proximity chat app made by Artery. Currently on early access waitlist.
- Here
- Huddle
- Jel: Live collaboration tool
- Metaverse
- Muse
- Online Town: The old version of Gather
- Party Chat: HTTPS error
- Pop
- slash talk: Stealth startup working on an "anti-meeting tool"
- Spatial Video Party
- Squad: Acquired by Twitter