Coronavirus lockdown: Best video calling apps apart from ZOOM

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: April 21, 2020 05:59 PM2020-04-21T17:59:07+5:302020-04-21T17:59:07+5:30

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Lockdown is been followed in many countries around the world to fight Coronavirus. Also, citizens are urged to stay at home and observe social distancing.

People are widely using social media at home to pass their time. Many are using conference calls or video calls to communicate with relatives and friends.

'Zoom' has become the app number one during lockdown with WhatsApp overtaking TikTok. Due to the lockdown, many people are using Zoom, a video conferencing app, for office meetings.

The basic version of Zoom allows up to 50 participants to join a video conference call.

A few days ago, it was reported that five lakh Zoom accounts were hacked and users' private data was being sold on the Dark Web at a low price.

Zoom app is causing to leak the users data. But there are many safe video calling apps available.

WhatsApp is a powerful way to communicate. The company has given special voice and video calling features to the users.

Lockdown is letting people make many number of video calls. WhatsApp is constantly bringing new features for its users.

With Google Duo, video call is fun and you can chat with up to 12 people at once.

Google has increased the number of simultaneous video calling users on Google Duo. So 12 people can now make video calls simultaneously through Google Duo.

Facebook Messenger is a video calling and chatting app that is widely used.

Connecting up to 8 people at a time through Facebook Messenger. It can also be used on all platforms such as Android, iOS, Webbrowser.

Like Facebook Messenger, Skype is an old video calling app. It can transfer messages and files along with video calling.

Video calls can be made to up to 32 people at a time through Apple FaceTime. It is also a secure app

Google Hangouts is also a great app for video calls, with an end to end security feature.