Jitsi Meet is the open-source meeting room. Guests join from a browser link with no account and no plugin, and the project — about 30,000 stars on GitHub, Apache-2.0 — can also be deployed on your own server so meeting traffic never touches a third-party cloud.
For teams whose clients refuse to install software or create accounts, that frictionless join is often the deciding factor, and self-hosting answers the question of where the recording lives.
Official image from the https://jitsi.org website. (https://jitsi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Jitsi_opengraph.jpg)
What it covers
- Instant meetings with a link; guests join from the browser
- Screen sharing, chat and recording in the meeting view
- Self-hosting with Docker for full data control
- Embeddable rooms inside your own product or intranet
What to know before you switch
Where Zoom and Google Meet are richer, Jitsi is more basic: transcription, cloud recording and large-webinar features need extra components, and the free public instance has limits on room size and duration. Reliability on the public instance also varies with load.
Who it fits
Agencies and freelancers holding client calls without asking clients to sign up, privacy-focused organisations, and anyone who wants a meeting link that works from a borrowed computer.