Free software for group video chat

Skype has recently started charging $10/month for group video chat, which neither me nor my friends wish to pay. Are there any free, cross-platform (Windows and OS X) applications which can do video chat between 3 or more people at once? Either a desktop application or a web application would work. When making recommendations, it would be helpful to state whether it's a desktop or web app, what features it has, and whether it requires sign-up for the service. Thanks.

nhinkle

Posted 2010-12-09T08:26:35.157

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Isn't $10/month only for OS X clients ? – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-12-09T19:43:34.370

@Sathya, according to Skype's website, free group video calling is only available as a 28 day trial. Also, some of the people I need to use it with have only OS X or only Windows, so we need a solution which is free on both platforms.

– nhinkle – 2010-12-09T21:30:04.543

Answers

ooVoo
TokBox

churnd

Posted 2010-12-09T08:26:35.157

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ooVoo won't work; they charge a subscription for 3+ person video calls. Tokbox VideoChat looks potentially promising though - I will give that a try, and report back on how that works

– nhinkle – 2010-12-11T19:47:43.253

TokBox worked quite well, thanks for the tip. The quality isn't great, but it works, and it's nice not having to install any software locally (it runs in the browser as a flash app). – nhinkle – 2010-12-31T06:34:08.703

Google+ hangouts is the only free tool I've been able to use – it's a webapp though.

Felo

Posted 2010-12-09T08:26:35.157

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