Free
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- Meet for up to 45 minutes
- Screen sharing
- Unlimited call recordings
- 10 participants max
It isn't always practical to have every single meeting in person. And today, there are lots of video chat apps with work-focused video calling features (that are designed more for hangouts with colleagues than chatting with loved ones).
As long as you have a good Wi-Fi signal, almost any business can start working remotely while staying in touch with clients and prospects.
So, if you need a video call app or software, keep reading. Dialpad's desktop and mobile app lets you not only do video conferencing, but also have group chat, send SMS/MMS messages, and more.
Some video conferencing software will make you download the desktop or mobile app to host and join video calls. But Dialpad is browser-based, which means it won’t force you to download the app. Host and join meetings from a web browser using your computer or mobile device, and get all the cool features that you’d get in the app.
In the Dialpad app, all the call controls you need are easily in reach. Adjust your volume, start a screen share, mute and unmute yourself, or start and pause recording. It's all in a clean, easy-to-use interface that lays out all these options for you right on the screen.
Need to zoom in on a design mockup or run through a webinar with your remote team? Dialpad's simple screen sharing feature lets you choose between sharing a specific window or tab—or your whole screen. You can even do mobile screen sharing by texting someone a link. Again, no downloads needed.
Dialpad integrates with popular software like Microsoft, Google, and Miro to let you schedule video calls and be more productive during meetings. For example, the Miro integration lets you whiteboard virtually with your teammates!
Keep your meetings secure. Dialpad's settings allow the host to mute participants, remove unwanted guests, lock the meeting, limit screen sharing, and more.
Beyond online video calls, what if your team also communicates through phone calls and text chat? Dialpad lets you consolidate all those tools into one. Talk, message, and meet—all from one convenient app. That makes for fewer software tools to pay for and manage—and less time wasted on context-switching for your team.
No one wants laggy audio or pixelated video quality in a meeting, especially when you're meeting with clients or prospects. Dialpad comes with crystal-clear HD video.
Even if your video call software has HD (high-definition) quality, that 4k or 1080p won’t help if your Internet connection is bad. If your software isn’t as HD as advertised, check your Internet first!
All you need to get started with live video calling in Dialpad is an Internet connection. Its app works across Apple devices, PCs, iPhones, Android... Anything that you and your clients or prospects use. Just download the app from the app store you use.
Alternatively, you can just log into your account in a web browser and have video meetings from there.
To start a one-on-one or group video call, just go into a messaging conversation you have with a contact. Or you can start a video call using the drop-down in the top left.
Hit the video call symbol at the top of your messaging window.
That’s it! This will start a video call with that person.
No need to launch a bunch of different apps, and you can even switch from a voice call to messaging and then to a video conference within the same conversation—all in one place with Dialpad.
We know how important it is to have a good network connection for remote work. That’s why we’ve collaborated with T-Mobile to bring you a unified communications platform (yes, there’s video, and also voice calling and even SMS) on lightning-fast 5G connectivity. Need reliable HD call quality? This collab is for you.
There are so many aspects to running a successful business, and communication is a vital one.
If your team is scattered around the world, this is especially important because you probably don’t want to fly teammates in and out of the office just to have a meeting.
And for sales teams, running product demos through a video call online is probably a better use of their time than making them travel to do a demo. (Great for saving both time and money.)
With HD video calling that's built right into its communication platform as standard, Dialpad lets you have face-to-face meetings from virtually anywhere. Even if your call is crossing the Atlantic, your conversation will be as clear as one had with a colleague in the same room.
If you need the ability to make phone calls in addition to video meetings, then check out Dialpad's plans, which start at $15 per user per month. Signup takes just a few minutes, and you'll also get set up with a phone number once you're done.
Yes, just turn off the video in your meeting and it'll be a voice-only meeting!
It depends on what app you use! For example, Dialpad’s app is available across multiple devices for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. The nice thing about Dialpad is that, as we mentioned above, it works just the same in a web browser as it does in an app. Don’t want to download the app? No problem.
Of course, the main benefit of video calls is that it gives you that valuable face-to-face human element in meetings. You can meet with prospects, clients, freelancers, and pretty much anyone you normally have to talk to for work.
A good video calling app will have functionality like screen sharing and file sharing, and even a live chat messaging box for asking questions in real-time without interrupting the speaker. This makes video calling useful for presentations and onboarding new employees remotely, where people may have questions during the meeting.
Yes! With Dialpad, you can invite people outside your company to video meetings. All they have to do is click the link in your invite. They don't even have to download the app!
Dialpad Meetings' free plan gives you unlimited video call meetings, so think of it as free video calling!
It really depends on what your business needs in a video call software. There’s a massive array of products on the market, each with their own video calling features. The kind of features a 500-person organization might need will likely be pretty different (and way more expensive) than what a startup needs. If you’re a growing business, try to choose an app that is able to expand with you. For example, is it easy to add—or remove—users as you scale your business up or down?
Not every business needs it, but if your team is distributed around the world, or just wants the flexibility of working from anywhere, then video calls are pretty essential. Physical group meetings cost money. There’s no way around it. There are travel costs, and then there’s time spent away from work.
If your meeting attendees can join the call from home, then you’re saving both time and money—and a lot of it. It's also better for accessibility since travel isn't convenient for everyone, and allows you to involve more people in meetings—no matter where they are. (Plus, compared to a phone call, video calls make it harder to hide that you're checking the latest updates on a social network.)
Generally, “video calling” and “video chatting” can be used interchangeably. Both use a computer or smartphone with an Internet connection and (usually) an app that lets you meet face-to-face with someone else. A video chat or call does usually differ slightly from video conferencing, which tends to involve a larger group of attendees, and is usually used by bigger organizations to meet virtually.