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What is Google Hangouts?

Use Hangouts to maintain connections with friends and colleagues by sending text messages, starting free voice or video calls, and participating in discussions with individuals or groups. You can form group chats that support up to 150 members, enabling you to reach all your contacts in one go. Elevate your conversations by incorporating status updates, multimedia elements like images and videos, maps, emojis, stickers, and animated GIFs for greater expression. Any chat can be easily converted into a free group video call with a limit of 10 participants. Additionally, you can call any phone number worldwide, with free calls available to other Hangouts users, and you can integrate your Google Voice account for a seamless experience involving phone calls, SMS messaging, and voicemail services. Stay engaged across various platforms, such as Android, iOS, and the web, ensuring that your messages are perfectly synchronized on all devices. You can also send messages to your contacts anytime, regardless of their online status, allowing for unprecedented flexibility in communication. This versatility makes Hangouts a valuable tool for both personal and professional interactions.

What is Google Chat?

Google Chat is a comprehensive AI-powered messaging and collaboration platform designed to help organizations improve communication, teamwork, and workflow management across distributed teams and departments. As part of the Google Workspace ecosystem, the platform combines direct messaging, team spaces, huddles, integrations, and AI-assisted collaboration tools into a unified communication environment accessible from desktops, browsers, and mobile devices. Gemini AI acts as an intelligent collaboration assistant by helping users summarize conversations, identify action items, translate messages in real time, brainstorm ideas, and quickly catch up on missed discussions without manually reviewing long message threads. Google Chat supports persistent collaboration spaces that can scale to support large organizations while centralizing project conversations, shared files, announcements, and operational workflows in one location. Teams can launch huddle meetings directly within conversations to enable quick problem-solving, brainstorming sessions, and spontaneous collaboration without switching platforms. The platform integrates seamlessly with Gmail, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Tasks to create streamlined workflows and improve productivity across Workspace applications. Google Chat also supports extensive third-party integrations including Jira, Salesforce, Asana, HubSpot, Trello, ServiceNow, Datadog, Workday, PagerDuty, and many other business tools commonly used for project management and operational coordination. Organizations can further extend functionality by building custom apps and automated workflows through Chat APIs, Apps Script, and no-code development with Gemini in AppSheet.

Media

Media

Integrations Supported

CalendarHero
Franz
Gfacility
Google Takeout
Happeo
Kernel G Suite Backup Tool
ManagedMethods
Shift
Stackreaction
Workona
FROGED
Ferdi
LegitFit
Phonsee
Raklet
TiSPY

Integrations Supported

CalendarHero
Franz
Gfacility
Google Takeout
Happeo
Kernel G Suite Backup Tool
ManagedMethods
Shift
Stackreaction
Workona
AttendanceBot
Blink
Resurface
TIXAE AGENTS.ai

API Availability

API Availability

Pricing Information

Pricing not provided
Free Version

Pricing Information

Pricing not provided
Free Version

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Mac
Linux

Customer Service / Support

Not specified

Customer Service / Support

Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Company Facts

Organization Name

Google

Date Founded

1998

Company Location

United States

Company Website

www.google.com

Company Facts

Organization Name

Google

Date Founded

1998

Company Location

United States

Company Website

workspace.google.com/products/chat/

Categories and Features

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Video Conferencing

Mobile Access
Presentation Tools
Real-Time Chat
Screen Sharing
Two-Way Audio & Video
Video Conferencing

Web Conferencing

Mobile Access
Presentation Tools
Real-Time Chat
Screen Sharing
Two-Way Audio & Video
Video Conferencing

Categories and Features

Collaboration

Chat / Messaging
Contact Management
Video Conferencing

Employee Communication Tools

Audio / Video Conferencing
Chat / Messaging
Employee Directory

Internal Communications

Chat/Messaging
Employee Directory
Telephony
Video Chat
Voice Chat

Messaging

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