Google Hangouts Meet is a multi-participants video-conferencing and instantaneous messaging that has been developed by Google.

This tool enables professionals to organize videoconferences simply by transmitting an automatically-generated link. The persons that have been invited may join a Google Hangouts Meet videoconference simply by clicking on the link without being subscribed to the paying suite, “Google Suite”.

Release date: May 2013.

• Google Hangouts Meet is a messaging tool which enables users to exchange messages, files, photos, videos, and even to make free one-to-one of group video calls;
• Easily switch from one type of message to another: send messages through Hangouts Meet, by SMS or by MMS;
• Allow all of your collaborators to participate thanks to group Hangouts Meet and MMS chats/conversations;
• Say more thanks to files, photos, videos, emojis, and animated GIF images;
• Connect with up to 10 persons by transforming any conversation into a group video-conference, free of charge;
• Use Google Hangouts Meet to communicate with your partners on computers or mobile devices operated by Apple or Android;
• Easily and swiftly share localisation in the Maps and Contacts with your collaborators;
• Send messages to your interlocutors at any moment (even when they are not connected).

The widgets:

1. Contact list: it is synchronized with your Gmail Account;
2. Makes it possible to access and start text messaging;
3. The last widget enables the user to make phone calls. Moreover, these calls are free only when they are made between Google Hangouts Meet.

Advantages :

• Freely offered by Google;
• Accessible with a Gmail account;
• High-quality, simple, and intuitive.

Disadvantages :

• The “invisible” state is not available;
• Being the property of Google, it is mandatory to have a Gmail account and to use Google Chrome.