The 6 best video online meeting apps are:

• Zoom for reliable, large video calls

• Google Meet for G Suite users

• GoToMeeting for professional features

• join.me for a lightweight option

• Webex for whiteboarding

• Slack for calls from your team chat app

What makes a great online meeting app?

High-quality video conferencing software has to do more than just show your face to the world. Whether you want to have a quick chat with your coworker or put an all-hands presentation on everyone’s calendar, a good video conferencing solution makes it straightforward to create a meeting link or dial-in number, share it with others, and add more people to in-progress calls.

It should also offer features that let you turn facetime into collaboration time, such as screen sharing, annotation or whiteboarding, and live chat. These features are key to making your virtual meetings as productive as they would be in person, so we only included apps that support these functions.

And while it’s a bit harder to define, a good video conferencing app should be reliable, meaning it should enable consistently clear calls that don’t usually drop or get choppy. While some apps on this list are better for smaller groups of people, we’ve also included a few powerhouse tools that can reliably handle video calls for large groups.