Webex vs Skype

Overview

Webex

Stacks165

Followers231

Votes14

Skype

Stacks17.3K

Followers13.5K

Votes653

Skype vs Webex: What are the differences?

Skype: Voice calls, instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are; Webex: Connect with anyone, anywhere, any time. Collaborate with colleagues across your organization, or halfway across the planet. Meet online and share files, information, and expertise. Collaborate from wherever you are with WebEx mobile apps for IPhone, iPad, Android, or Blackberry. If you can get online, you can work together.

Skype and Webex belong to "Web and Video Conferencing" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Skype are:

Calling- Make free Skype to Skype calls or call mobiles and landlines home and abroad at low rates.
Video- Catch up face to face or get a whole group together on a video call.
Messaging- You're always in the loop with instant messaging, voice messaging and sending texts.

On the other hand, Webex provides the following key features:

Invite and remind participants - invite participants to an online meeting that has already started via email, voice conference, or instant messenger, and send reminders about your upcoming meeting.
Use integrated WebEx audio – create a more productive meeting experience with integrated WebEx audio.
Record your meeting - record your actions during your meeting so you can review the discussion at a later time, or send to colleagues who couldn’t attend.

Typeform, Starbucks, and PedidosYa are some of the popular companies that use Skype, whereas Webex is used by Eyereturn Marketing, Collibra, and OutSystems. Skype has a broader approval, being mentioned in 736 company stacks & 733 developers stacks; compared to Webex, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Advice on Webex, Skype

Lisa

Mar 20, 2020

Needs advice

Hi, I am helping teachers in my kid's schools to set up distance learning and wanted to see what is better between Webex, Zoom, and Skype (although only putting this one in as most parents probably have it). The children are 8-9, so they won't be using it on their own and the parents have no experience using Webex or Zoom.

The main use will be for the teacher to explain what they will be covering in the week and enable some social interaction between the kids.

I need to be easy to use for about 20-25 people.

Thanks for your advice, Lisa

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Detailed Comparison

Webex	Skype
Collaborate with colleagues across your organization, or halfway across the planet. Meet online and share files, information, and expertise. Collaborate from wherever you are with Webex mobile apps for IPhone, iPad, Android, or Blackberry. If you can get online, you can work together.	Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.
Invite and remind participants - invite participants to an online meeting that has already started via email, voice conference, or instant messenger, and send reminders about your upcoming meeting; Use integrated Webex audio – create a more productive meeting experience with integrated Webex audio; Record your meeting - record your actions during your meeting so you can review the discussion at a later time, or send to colleagues who couldn’t attend; Share content - get everyone on the same page. Open any document or application and discuss it in real time with other participants; Pass the ball - let other participants share and present documents from their computers and assign privileges to individual participants; Transfer files - avoid sending emails back and forth by exchanging files – no matter how large – in your meeting quickly, easily, and securely; Interact within a meeting - use polling and chat, and learn how to integrate webcams into your meeting for a more personal experience.	Calling- Make free Skype to Skype calls or call mobiles and landlines home and abroad at low rates.;Video- Catch up face to face or get a whole group together on a video call.;Messaging- You're always in the loop with instant messaging, voice messaging and sending texts.;Sharing- Send photos, videos and files of any size.
Statistics
Stacks 165	Stacks 17.3K
Followers 231	Followers 13.5K
Votes 14	Votes 653
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Secure 3 Easy to Use 3 Good branding - Cisco 3 High Quality Cons 1 Horrible voice quality, voice gaps, drops	Pros 258 Free, widespread 147 Desktop and mobile apps 110 Because i have to :( 57 Low cost international calling 56 Good for international calls Cons 5 Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare 3 Birthday notifications are annoying 3 Outdated UI 3 Not always reliable 3 The worst indicator noises of any app ever

What are some alternatives to Webex, Skype?

Discord

Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.

Zoom

Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Zoom Rooms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems.

Google Meet

It is the business-oriented version of Google's Hangouts platform and is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It allows users to dial in phone numbers to access meetings, thus enabling users with slow internet connection to call in.

Jitsi

Jitsi (acquired by 8x8) is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.

Viber

It is a cross-platform instant messaging and voice over IP application provided as freeware for the Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS platforms.

Jami

It is a free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users. Its main goal is to provide a communication framework and end-user applications to make audio or video calls, send text messages and make generic data transfers. It makes this possible via multiple paradigms: a modern decentralized approach using a DHT to find peers or classical centralized SIP as a soft-phone.

WebRTC

It is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.

TeamViewer

Its aproprietary software for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers.

Hangouts

It is a communication platform which includes messaging, video chat, and VOIP features.

GoToMeeting

It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real time.