When we can’t get together in person, group video apps let us see and hear our friends, family, or coworkers all at once. There are group video apps designed for business, casual, gaming, and collaboration. Here’s a guide to the best group video apps.

Zoom exploded in popularity in 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and because it’s a free way to have high-quality video chats with up to 100 people at a time. The service is cross-platform, working on PC and Mac, web browsers, iPhone, and Android. The only significant downside is that video calls are limited to 40 minutes, which may not be long enough for business meetings, and it can be a pain to reconnect to a new session. Of course, there are paid plans for users who want unlimited calling.

Zoom has great sharing and collaboration tools, and you can even record meetings and share them with others. And meetings can be started ad hoc or scheduled in advance.

For many, FaceTime ushered in the era of modern video chatting. Most people had little to no experience with video chatting until Apple added FaceTime to iOS in 2010, and it quickly became a popular alternative to regular audio calls. FaceTime makes it easy to set up group chats with up to 32 people, and you can add people to an existing call.