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Amazon Chime vs Twilio Video App: What are the differences?
Developers describe Amazon Chime as "Online meetings and video conferencing". Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust. Amazon Chime works seamlessly across your devices so that you can stay connected. You can use Amazon Chime for online meetings, video conferencing, calls, chat, and to share content, both inside and outside your organization. On the other hand, Twilio Video App is detailed as "Open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web (By Twilio)". Open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web. Deploy your own video collaboration app in five minutes or less. The purpose of these open source apps is to provide a more comprehensive demonstration of Programmable Video features.
Amazon Chime and Twilio Video App can be categorized as "Web and Video Conferencing" tools.
Twilio Video App is an open source tool with 448 GitHub stars and 44 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Twilio Video App's open source repository on GitHub.
Hello. So, I wanted to make a decision on whether to use WebRTC or Amazon Chime for a conference call (meeting). My plan is to build an app with features like video broadcasting, and the ability for all the participants to talk and chat. I have used Agora's web SDK for video broadcasting, and Socket.IO for chat features. As I read the comparison between Amazon Chime and WebRTC, it further intrigues me on what I should use given my scenario? Is there any way that so many related technologies could be a hindrance to the other? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. Ritwik Neema
I would recommend Amazon Chime. If I were you, I would eventually look into working with WebRTC as it is very interesting and teaches you a lot. I dove deep into webRTC recently building a webinar broadcasting application (one-to-many) and I can say it is difficult to understand how things actually work and to get it stable. I mean you can vaguely read up on it and get some things to work by copying code on StackOverflow or using a library but that wouldn't teach you much.
In short, go with Chime because it is easy to get started especially if you have a time constraint. But look into webRTC in the future as it enables you to build your own "Chime". Hope this helped!
