Free video conferencing: Reliable and easy to use (2025)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.