Open-source Tencent Meeting alternatives

Jitsi Meet is a collection of open-source projects for hosting video conferences. It works in all current browsers and has Android and iOS apps, and it can be used as a ready-made service or embedded into other web applications through web and native SDKs. It is built on WebRTC with a selective forwarding unit to scale to larger meetings.

Meetings offer HD audio and video, content sharing, raised hands and reactions, chat with private conversations, polls and virtual backgrounds. The hosted service at meet.jit.si is free to use, and the README says you can start a meeting after signing in with an account from a major provider. Mobile users can use the browser or the full-featured apps, which are also available from F-Droid, and open beta programs let early adopters test features.

If you prefer control over your data, Jitsi can be deployed on your own infrastructure, with documentation for running your own instance. Jitsi Meet is Apache-2.0 licensed and written in TypeScript. It suits organizations, schools and communities that want an alternative to proprietary meeting software.

BigBlueButton is an open-source web conferencing system designed for online learning, intended to help teachers teach and learners learn. Participants can share audio, video, slides (with whiteboard annotations), chat messages and their screen in real time, and can also be used for many other meeting types beyond education.

To keep remote students involved, instructors can use polls, emoji reactions, whiteboards that several people can draw on, shared notes and breakout rooms. During a session it generates analytics shown to moderators on a Learning Analytics Dashboard, and presenters can record sessions for later playback and sharing. The README lists online tutoring, flipped classrooms, group collaboration and online classes as the educational scenarios it was built for. Its topics reference WebRTC.

The current major release is BigBlueButton 3.0, which can be installed on Ubuntu 22.04 with the bbb-install.sh script, and full documentation covers architecture, features, the API and GreenLight, the default front end. The software is licensed under LGPL-3.0, while the name and logo are trademarks of BigBlueButton Inc. It suits schools, universities and training providers that want to host their own conferencing.

MiroTalk P2P is an open-source video conferencing platform that uses direct peer-to-peer WebRTC connections between participants. You host it on your own server, and people join meeting rooms from a browser with no downloads and no time limits. It is meant for teams and communities that want private real-time communication they control.

Features include unlimited rooms, screen sharing, text chat, a collaborative whiteboard, recording and general collaboration tools. It works across common browsers and platforms, can be deployed with a Docker image in minutes, and has a live demo, documentation and a Discord community. The software is JavaScript based.

MiroTalk P2P is licensed under AGPL-3.0. Because media flows peer to peer, it keeps traffic off a central media server, which suits small groups. It fits small teams, schools and communities who want a self-hosted alternative to commercial meeting tools.

MiroTalk SFU is an open-source video conferencing platform that you deploy on your own server. It uses a mediasoup selective forwarding unit to scale real-time audio and video, and is offered as an alternative to Zoom, Google Meet, Jitsi Meet, and Microsoft Teams. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, and one-time commercial license fees are also available.

The platform supports video chat, screen sharing, file sharing, live streaming through RTMP, and webinar-style use cases, with real-time communication over WebRTC and WebSocket. Compared with the hosted services it replaces, the README highlights unlimited meeting duration and rooms, and full control of data and infrastructure with no vendor lock-in.

It is built on Node.js and is distributed with Docker support, so you can run it on a VPS or internal server. It suits organizations, communities, and developers who want private meetings and need to embed or customize video calls, and who are comfortable operating the media server themselves.

La Suite Meet is an open-source video conferencing application built with Django and React and powered by LiveKit. It runs in the browser, so participants join calls without installing anything. The code is released under the MIT license and is fully self-hostable. It comes from the French government's digital suite project, and a public instance runs at visio.numerique.gouv.fr.

Features include stability tuned for large meetings, multiple screen sharing streams, a non-persistent secure chat, meeting recording, transcription and summaries (currently in beta), telephony integration, authentication and access control, and a customizable front end. End-to-end encryption is listed as coming soon. LiveKit contributes speaker detection, simulcast, selective subscription, and SVC codecs.

The project has a Matrix channel where the team answers questions and helps with deployment. It suits public institutions, companies, and communities that want a sovereign, self-hosted alternative to commercial conferencing services and are prepared to operate the media infrastructure.

Galene is a videoconferencing system that aims to be easy to deploy and to run on very moderate server resources. It is a WebRTC-based SFU, meaning the server forwards participants' media streams to each other instead of mixing them, which keeps CPU use low while supporting group calls from a web browser.

Beyond video calls it supports file sharing, as its topics indicate, and ships with documentation covering installation, usage and administration, writing clients, the client protocol and an administrative API. People join through a browser, and the quick start explains how to try it locally with a self-signed certificate. Questions and common issues are answered on the project website.

Galene is written in Go by Juliusz Chroboczek and is licensed under MIT. You run it on your own server, which suits universities, small organizations and groups that want a private conferencing system without a large infrastructure. Discussion and patches go through a mailing list, though pull requests on GitHub are also accepted.

edumeet is a multiparty web meeting service built with mediasoup and WebRTC, with a React front end. People join meetings in the browser, sharing microphone, camera and an additional video stream, and the system is aimed at education and organizations that want to host their own conferencing.

Main features include audio and video streaming, screen sharing, file sharing using a torrent-based approach, text chat and optional local recording that is disabled by default. Authentication supports OIDC, SAML and a local database. The release is delivered as Docker images for the client, room server, media node and management server, with an installation script that sets up domains, certificates and services.

Hosting it needs Docker and docker-compose, curl, a public IP address and two domain names, one for the service and one for the TURN server, with ports 80 and 443 open. edumeet is licensed under MIT and the project offers a public instance for trying it online and a Discord community. It suits universities, research networks and other institutions that prefer self-hosted video meetings.

Plug-N-Meet is an open-source web conferencing system built on the WebRTC infrastructure of LiveKit, written in Go. It is designed to be scalable and easy to customize so that a self-hosted video conferencing experience can be integrated into any existing website, application or system.

Collaboration tools include HD audio and video, screen sharing, virtual backgrounds, a collaborative whiteboard with office file support for PDF, DOCX and PPTX, a shared notepad, polls and breakout rooms. Adaptive streaming uses simulcast and dynacast with H264, VP8, VP9 and AV1 codecs to keep calls stable on poor networks. WebRTC encryption is on by default, with optional end-to-end encryption for media and data channels, and a SIP gateway lets participants join the audio by phone. An AI agent adds live spoken translation, real-time transcription and automated summaries with action items, available through an Artifacts API.

Integration is done through an API and SDKs, including one for PHP, and webhooks. Plug-N-Meet is licensed under MIT and has a developer community on Discord.