Free video conferencing from Zoom

Host secure, free video conferencing calls with Zoom Meetings. Download the free Zoom desktop or mobile app, or sign up online to get started today.

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Why use free video conferencing software?

Free video conferencing helps everyone — individuals, teams, and small businesses — get more done by supporting effective collaboration and communication with friends, colleagues, and clients, regardless of location. Benefits of using free video conferencing software include:

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    Improved communications

    Video conferencing allows you to see facial expressions, hand gestures, and body language that offer meaning and context, helping you better understand one another. Seeing people in real time helps build stronger connections and trust, and may make it easier to understand each other compared to audio-only teleconferencing.

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    Engaging business calls

    Video conferencing can make your business calls more effective by allowing you to interact with customers face-to-face, share a presentation on your screen, and use built-in features like virtual backgrounds. Zoom’s free video conferencing solution includes other collaboration tools like mail, calendar, and chat.

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    Dynamic presentations

    With the ability to share video and audio, use slides as a virtual background, and share screen content from additional cameras, you can host dynamic presentations and live demos that engage audiences and bring your product and services to life.

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    Work from anywhere

    Zoom lets you join free video calls from anywhere you have internet access, whether you’re at home, an airport, or a hotel, and participate in group activities and team projects. During video calls, you can share your screen, send messages, and work together using collaborative docs and online whiteboards.

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    Improve efficiency and productivity

    Video conferencing helps you be more productive, save time, and cut costs while allowing you to build connections through face-to-face meetings. Remote collaboration with video calling promotes efficiency by eliminating commute time, making it an essential business tool.

Free video conferencing features included with Zoom Meetings

Zoom Meetings free video call software combines ease of use with powerful features to help you communicate, share, discuss, plan, and collaborate with others. Learn about the Zoom Meetings features and capabilities included with our free Zoom Workplace Basic plan.

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    Customizable gallery views

    Gallery view in Zoom enables participants to view multiple video feeds simultaneously in a grid layout where they can rearrange video tiles through drag-and-drop. As host, you can grant up to nine participants video pinning privileges and spotlight up to nine attendees’ videos, so no matter who is speaking, the entire meeting sees the spotlighted videos.

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    Screen sharing and co-annotation

    Screen sharing in Zoom is highly customizable. Meeting hosts can share their desktop, specific apps, portions of their screen, and more while maintaining control over who else can share during meetings. Multi-share allows multiple participants to simultaneously share their screens during meetings, and co-annotation lets participants collectively draw, highlight, and add notes on shared content.

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    Features to enhance engagement

    Reactions, immersive view, and annotation improve participant engagement, while virtual backgrounds and filters let you showcase your brand or add some fun to meetings. You can use breakout rooms for small-group discussions by assigning rooms at random, pre-assigning participants to specific rooms, or letting participants choose their own to join.

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    Meeting management

    In addition to the ability to pin multiple participants’ videos and spotlight multiple videos, the waiting room feature provides security by allowing hosts to screen and admit participants individually. Local recording lets you save meeting content directly to your computer.

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    Unlimited meetings

    With the free Zoom Workplace Basic plan, you can host an unlimited number of meetings for up to 100 participants, with a meeting duration limit of 40 minutes. For longer sessions, Zoom offers paid upgrades that extend meeting duration up to 30 hours and include features like local and cloud recording, telephone dial-in (toll-based), and much more.

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    Automated captions

    Also known as live transcription, this feature automatically generates real-time subtitles during Zoom meetings, helping participants follow conversations while supporting accessibility. Supported languages for automated captions include English, Spanish, French, German, and many others — selecting the speaker’s language may improve caption accuracy.

How to get more with Zoom Meetings

Upgrade to Zoom Workplace Pro for access to more great features and capabilities, including:

  • Unlimited group meetings

    The duration of meetings is extended to up to 30 hours, allowing teams to discuss and collaborate for longer without interruption.

  • Cloud recording

    You can record a Zoom meeting locally or to the Zoom Cloud, which has 5 GB of cloud storage per license. 

  • Co-host and alternative host

    Share meeting management responsibilities by assigning a co-host or designating an alternative host to start meetings.

  • Reporting capabilities

    Run usage reports to learn how many meetings are taking place, which days, the number of participants, and more.

  • AI-first capabilities

    Increase speed and team alignment using Zoom AI Companion meeting summaries, next steps, and queries.

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Zoom Meetings comes with Zoom Team Chat so you can collaborate over chat before, during, and after meetings within the same application.

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The free Zoom Workplace Basic plan includes Zoom Meetings for free video conferencing along with Team Chat, Clips Basic, Mail and Calendar, Docs Basic, Tasks Basic, Whiteboard Basic, and Notes.

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