Google Meet (original)

Sanjeev Singh

Missing basic features. Can't save resolution preferences. Both my kids have Chromebooks from the school. The laptops struggle at high res. For every class, they have to manually drop the res. If they disconnect, they have to redo it after rejoining. Simply saving the preference will be great. The school district is rolling out zoom in few weeks. Looking forward to it.

E. Y.

Not up to par w/ competitors... like where is the option for owners to set up a waiting room for punctual participants vs constantly typing in the same code over and over again until the host opens the bridge. Seems like a waste of time and unnecessary effort. Also breakout session capability would be good, virtual background or the option to blur out the background would help, and the owner being able to mute all. These are basic capabilities that seem to be missing as standard conf tools.

Kelly Sinclair

Even with a good internet connection when I use the app on my galaxy a7 tablet the presentation of the screen is too blurry for students to read. I have tried Uninstalling and reinstalling the app, clearing its data, clearing the cache. I have made sure no other apps are running on the table. I have checked everything. There has to be some issue with app. I have screen shared on my phone in the same wifi and it's perfect but when doing so from the tablet it is so blurry you cannot even read it.

Aishani Uddaraju

I love google meet, and I use it for school. But, when I am working with a monitor connected to my computer, when I am typing something on a document, the google meet suddenly does whatever it wants. It turns on captions, it decided to present my screen for me, changes my layout, and so many more annoying things like that. Is there a way to fix that? Thanks

Izzy

So there is a reoccurring issue on my application that for some reason, on my android device, the camera that's on the same side as your screen goes completely black on your screen. When you change it to the more outward camera, it works just fine but it becomes very bothersome to deal with when you need to be looking at the other side, and your face needs to be shown. I have deleted and redownloaded this app a bunch of times and only on random does it work again.

Dana Mulvany

I love the realtime captioning feature in Google Meet! It's very fast and it *doesn't* typically cover up the mouth of the person who is speaking. I wish the process of starting a meeting with someone was much, much easier. Also wish that the notification for when a person is trying to join a Meet was much louder and provided better visual notification. There can be frequent problems with the video stopping. I wish we could get some feedback about *why* this is happening.

JONTTM

I'm fairly biased towards Google, but I do really like their video meeting solution. It had some issues in the beginning (like lack of grid view), but they've addressed this over the past few months. The desktop app is great, but the mobile app could use some work. I don't like the portrait layout, it would be nice to have a full screen video option in portrait similar to Google Duo.

kissofwhimsy

This app lacks features. Pros: it is included with my g-suite, and the closed captioning feature is fantastic and seems quite accurate. Cons: you can't choose your gallery view, when you are filming you can't make yourself whole screen-this is not helpful when using it to virtually show a space, you can't be sure of what you are showing the audience. Scheduling a meeting from the app (vs PC) doesn't seem to be an option. No recording option is available. Switching views in the app is clunky.

Rick Paquin

I installed this on my samsung phone and tablet. It works fine for 2 or 3 people, but for more, you can only see little images of the others in the right panel, and only up to 3. There's no way to do a checkerboard layout that I could find. You only see them when they speak. On a recent family event, the web version worked well for them, but this app was a total disappointment. Also has issues sending audio to the speakerphone or bluetooth device on BOTH Samsung devices. This app needs work.

ITAC85

It needs improvement. Pinning people does not work. It displays a white solid color instead, and removes their camera and displays their pfp. There are little amounts of settings. We need audio & video source switching added back and an option to change the layout, like the website version. It also could use a dark theme. Thank you for reading this review.