Communication · paid tool
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Video meetings, webinars, and screen sharing for teams.
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Jitsi Meet
Ranking score 91.8/100
Browser video meetings with screen sharing and no account needed.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Platforms
- web, macos, windows, linux, ios, android, self-hosted
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Repo activity
- Last release September 14, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 30,146
- Last verified
- October 24, 2026
Why this rank
Score breakdown for Jitsi Meet Factor Points Weight Licence opennessApache-2.0 licence (open); self-hostable 25 25% Repository activityLast activity 0 day(s) before 2026-10-26 25 25% Popularity30146 GitHub stars 19.1 20% Feature coverage7 of 11 curated capability tags covered 12.7 20% Costfree pricing model 10 10% Points add up to the score. Factors without data are left out and the remaining weights are renormalised.
Nextcloud Talk
Ranking score 89.1/100
Chat and video calls inside a self-hosted Nextcloud instance.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Platforms
- web, macos, windows, linux, ios, android, self-hosted
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Repo activity
- Last release October 15, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 2,220
- Last verified
- October 24, 2026
Why this rank
Score breakdown for Nextcloud Talk Factor Points Weight Licence opennessAGPL-3.0 licence (open); self-hostable 25 25% Repository activityLast activity 0 day(s) before 2026-10-26 25 25% Popularity2220 GitHub stars 14.2 20% Feature coverage9 of 11 curated capability tags covered 16.4 20% Costopen-core pricing model 8.5 10% Points add up to the score. Factors without data are left out and the remaining weights are renormalised.
BigBlueButton
Ranking score 87.8/100
Virtual classroom with presentations, chat, and recording.
- Licence
- LGPL-3.0
- Platforms
- web, self-hosted
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Repo activity
- Last release October 14, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 9,255
- Last verified
- October 24, 2026
Why this rank
Score breakdown for BigBlueButton Factor Points Weight Licence opennessLGPL-3.0 licence (open); self-hostable 25 25% Repository activityLast activity 0 day(s) before 2026-10-26 25 25% Popularity9255 GitHub stars 16.9 20% Feature coverage6 of 11 curated capability tags covered 10.9 20% Costfree pricing model 10 10% Points add up to the score. Factors without data are left out and the remaining weights are renormalised.