The strongest Google Meet and Zoom alternatives are Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, RingCentral Video, Livestorm, and Whereby. Each one solves a slightly different problem: internal collaboration, office room video, webinars, phone-plus-video work, or quick browser-based calls. Microsoft said Teams has more than 320 million monthly active users, which shows how much demand there is for video tools that do more than basic calls [source: Microsoft].
TLDR: If your company already pays for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams is usually the easiest swap. If you run polished webinars, Livestorm is the cleanest pick. For a 40-person remote team with weekly standups, client calls, and one webinar per month, RingCentral Video or Webex may cut tool switching by 20–30%. If you just need fast guest meetings with no fuss, Whereby feels refreshingly simple.
1. Microsoft Teams: Best for companies already using Microsoft 365
Microsoft Teams is not just a video app. It is chat, file sharing, calendar, calling, and meetings in one place. That can be a blessing or a pain, depending on your setup.
For hybrid meetings, Teams works well with Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams Rooms hardware. If your team lives in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, the fit is obvious. People can join meetings, co-edit files, and continue the chat after the call ends.
Best for: mid-sized and large teams using Microsoft 365.
- Pros: strong calendar sync, good admin controls, useful meeting recaps, whiteboard support.
- Cons: busy interface, settings can feel buried, guest access can be annoying.
- Use it for: internal meetings, project rooms, company updates, hybrid offices.
Honestly, it feels like Teams has three places for every setting. Once IT sets it up well, though, it becomes a solid daily hub.
2. Cisco Webex: Best for hybrid meeting rooms and security-focused teams
Cisco Webex has been around for years, and that shows in a good way. It is built for serious meeting use. Think boardrooms, training rooms, customer calls, and regulated teams.
Webex shines when you need strong audio, room devices, noise removal, transcriptions, and stable video. Its hardware options are a major plus for offices where half the team sits around a table and the other half joins from home.
Best for: enterprises, government teams, healthcare, finance, and hybrid offices.
- Pros: reliable performance, strong device support, useful AI meeting features, good security tools.
- Cons: the interface can feel corporate, and smaller teams may find it heavier than needed.
- Use it for: hybrid board meetings, secure client calls, training sessions, office room systems.
If Zoom feels too casual and Google Meet feels too light, Webex sits in the more controlled middle.
3. RingCentral Video: Best for teams that want phone, messaging, and meetings together
RingCentral Video is a smart choice if your team also needs business phone service. It combines video meetings, team messaging, SMS, and calling under one account. That matters for sales, support, real estate, healthcare offices, and service companies.
The biggest win is fewer apps. Your team can move from a phone call to a video meeting without creating a fresh meeting link in another tool. That saves small bits of time all day, which adds up.
Best for: distributed teams that talk to clients often.
- Pros: phone and video in one platform, solid mobile apps, useful call history, easy meeting links.
- Cons: less exciting for teams that only need video meetings.
- Use it for: sales calls, support meetings, client check-ins, remote team huddles.
The catch is that you get the most value only if you use the full communications package. If not, it may feel like more tool than you need.
4. Livestorm: Best for webinars, demos, and online events
Livestorm is built for webinars first. That makes it very different from Teams or Webex. You get registration pages, reminder emails, browser-based joining, polls, chat, Q&A, replay pages, and analytics.
This is where Google Meet and Zoom often feel patched together. You can run a webinar on them, sure. But then you may need extra tools for signups, emails, reports, and follow-up. Livestorm puts that in one clean flow.
Best for: marketing teams, SaaS demos, customer education, HR events, and online workshops.
- Pros: great registration workflow, no download for guests, strong event analytics, polished attendee experience.
- Cons: not the best fit for quick internal calls.
- Use it for: product launches, lead generation webinars, training events, partner sessions.
If your webinar team cares about attendance rate, drop-off time, and replay views, Livestorm is worth a close look.
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5. Whereby: Best for simple browser-based meetings
Whereby is the “please just join the call” option. No downloads. No bloated setup. No weird meeting codes buried in calendar text. You create a room, share a link, and people join from the browser.
That makes it great for freelancers, agencies, coaches, recruiters, therapists, and small remote teams. It is also friendly for guests who hate installing new apps. We all know that person. Sometimes it is the client. Sometimes it is the CEO.
Best for: small teams and client-facing professionals who want less friction.
- Pros: very easy to use, great guest experience, branded rooms, fast joining.
- Cons: fewer enterprise controls and webinar features than bigger platforms.
- Use it for: client calls, interviews, coaching sessions, quick remote meetings.
How to choose the right platform
Pick based on the work, not the brand name.
- Choose Microsoft Teams if documents, chat, and meetings should live together.
- Choose Cisco Webex if meeting rooms, security, and stable large meetings matter most.
- Choose RingCentral Video if your team needs business phone plus video.
- Choose Livestorm if webinars are a serious marketing or training channel.
- Choose Whereby if guests need to join fast with almost no learning curve.
Best overall pick? For large internal teams, go with Microsoft Teams. For hybrid office rooms, pick Webex. For webinars, pick Livestorm. For simple external calls, Whereby is hard to beat.