Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs

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This is a pretty interesting app to have conversations with friends.<p>Business calls, I&#x27;ve had a problem with video. It&#x27;s often too cumbersome and gives too much info about the visual aspect of myself when it&#x27;s not necessary and when I don&#x27;t want it to happen. (e.g., getting on a call with a stranger or clients.) Using the &quot;voice&quot; call, I won&#x27;t worry over washing my face at 9am in the morning.<p>Which is the reason I created <a href="http://voicechatapi.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;voicechatapi.com</a> (shameless plug)

This is pretty cool. Would it be possible to get basic text chat in there? Some people have no mic but could benefit from this anyway. Thanks for your hard work!<p>By the way, it works fine for me in Chrome.

Haha I went to <a href="https://appear.in/test" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appear.in&#x2F;test</a> and by pure randomness somebody else also chose that name, and we were staring at each other. hahah

How is this app different from the WebRTC demo available at <a href="https://apprtc.appspot.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apprtc.appspot.com</a> since a long time?

Do you know any app which allows up to 15 participants for free or by issuing one time payment? My company is mostly ok with voice standups and meetings but from time to time we want to experiment with video ones. We are still not sure about them so we want to play around a little bit before deciding to switch to a video tool. The problem is, most of the tools have a limitation for a number of allowed participants so small that we cannot give them a try during our weekly meeting because not all team members can join. Is there anything that allows higher number? Or something that can be used once without recurring payments? Must work on mac os, linux and windows. Preferably without using browser plugins or java solution but if that&#x27;s not possible then we can go with them. So far hangout with their 10ppl limit and good compatibility across platforms seems best. Webrtc solutions worked for us in technical terms but were limited to 8 participants usually. Why always 8? I really hope there is something out there that we could use.

Looks good, and seems simple to get going.<p>Two comments:<p>- I set the background image but it didn&#x27;t appear (the dialog box for that seems to have no &#x27;OK&#x27; or &#x27;Save&#x27; button)<p>- It would be good to have a microphone level indicator, so I can see whether my microphone has been properly detected and working. There is one in Google Hangout but is rather small and not very good IMHO.

I just tried it with 2 friends and it works amazingly well. There are few things lately that I can say blew my mind - but this has. Really nice fucking job!

Check also Google Hangouts, allows 10 people. Although requires google login. I don&#x27;t remember whether I installed anything for it.

This is great, thanks!<p>Fyi, there&#x27;s also screen-sharing (hover the mouse over your own window for the option), which works nicely (Chrome).

and no video for me. just a blank grey screen. screenshot: <a href="http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/52ecb7fe4992f4-11308519" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webpagescreenshot.info&#x2F;img&#x2F;52ecb7fe4992f4-1130851...</a>

This is great. Simple and seamless. Got online with a couple of guys at the office right away to test it and worked pretty flawlessly. Couple lags here and there but no biggie (likely network on our side).<p>Didn&#x27;t get to test desktop share but if it works as well as the video chat did we will definitely be using this for client presentations.<p>We would previously use Skype and&#x2F;or join.me for client calls, but like gchat a login or installs were necessary (even if only for the host). This is a much simpler and elegant alternative. Particularly with the background option.<p>Love it so far!

&gt;&quot;We need access to your camera and microphone to get started.<p>&gt;&quot;No, I&#x27;m in my underwear. Please take me back.&quot; &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>Lol, nice tone.<p>Dialog to enable webcam didn&#x27;t appear for me though.<p>Kubuntu 13.10, FF 26.0

<a href="https://appear.in/microryza" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;appear.in&#x2F;microryza</a> can we get to 8 people?

Using firefox (26.0) on OS X works just fine. I get prompted to share my camera and microphone.<p>Firefox 26 on Debian Linux, however, never shows the prompt. The appear.in page just asks me to use the menu that should have (but didn&#x27;t) appear.

No luck from GP&#x27;s Firefox OS, but seems to be working on my CentOS workstation. Good job!<p>LE: I&#x27;m actually really, really impressed by this. It&#x27;s bloody great, good job to these guys and to whoever works on similar projects.

Appear.in is quite easy to integrate into a web app as well. Just generate a random link and send users off to chat: blog.iterate.no&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;29&#x2F;youtube-for-webrtc&#x2F;

Getting an empty dark gray page on iOS.<p>I realize Mobile Safari may not be a supported browser, but a graceful failure with some sort of explanation wouldn&#x27;t hurt, would it?

So frictionless, really impressive work. Well done.

Bug: I clicked the little down arrow to minimize the chat window and it beachballed Chrome (latest version, OS X).<p>Pretty awesome overall, though!

Tried it. Asked my friend to try on his iPhone. He installed Chrome as recommended but Chrome on iPhone is not supported.

Screen sharing dialog box UI tells me to paste a URL into chrome - but I&#x27;m unable to actually copy from it.

<p><pre><code> Failed to get camera access. Please grant camera access to use appear.in </code></pre> I have no idea how.

Sweet. For all my criticisms of G+, its voice&#x2F;video chat has been a useful and novel feature.

Is there some sort of end to end encryption available for this or any other WebRTC-based VOIP app?

<a href="https://palava.tv/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;palava.tv&#x2F;</a>

also, check out their tutorial about embedding a chat room in your app. <a href="http://appearin.github.io/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appearin.github.io&#x2F;tutorial.html</a><p>pretty cool!

this is awesome it reminds me of how much i loved meetings.io before they sold

Go Telenor!

Awesome.