# Alternatives to Houseparty

Drop-in group video hangouts. Houseparty has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

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Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/houseparty/
Category: Video conferencing

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: Casual, mostly younger users who wanted quick, spontaneous video hangouts with friends and friends-of-friends rather than a scheduled call.
- **What you get**: Houseparty was a mobile and desktop app for group video chat, notable for showing when friends were 'in the house' so others could drop in without a formal invite. It supported multiple simultaneous chat rooms with several people each, and included simple built-in games like trivia and Heads Up-style prompts to play while chatting. It was owned by Epic Games and was shut down in October 2021.
- **How it works**: Users opened the app to see which friends were currently online and available, then joined or started a room to begin a live video chat, with the option to lock rooms to keep them private or leave them open for friends to join in.

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## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [BigBlueButton](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/bigbluebutton.md) | building | LGPL-3.0 | Web |
| 2 | [Element Call](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/element-call.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | Web |
| 3 | [Gather](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/gather.md) | building | ? | Web, Windows, macOS, iOS |
| 4 | [Google Meet](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/google-meet.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, iOS, Android |
| 5 | [GoTo Meeting](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/goto-meeting.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, Web, iOS |
| 6 | [Jitsi Meet](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/jitsi-meet.md) | building | Apache-2.0 | Web, iOS, Android |
| 7 | [Livestorm](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/livestorm.md) | building | Proprietary | Web |
| 8 | [MiroTalk](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/mirotalk.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | Web |
| 9 | [Webex](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/webex.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, Web, iOS |
| 10 | [Whereby](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/whereby.md) | building | Proprietary | Web |
| 11 | [Zoho Meeting](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/zoho-meeting.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 12 | [Zoom](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/zoom.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |

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