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Jitsi vs WebRTC: What are the differences?
What is Jitsi? Multi-platform open-source video conferencing. Jitsi 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.
What is WebRTC? *A free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications *. 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.
Jitsi and WebRTC belong to "Web and Video Conferencing" category of the tech stack.
Jitsi is an open source tool with 1.94K GitHub stars and 630 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jitsi'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!
Pros of Jitsi
- Open Source32
- Entirely free conferencing20
- Unlimited time19
- Accessible from browser5
- Desktop, app and browser tab sharing3
- WebRTC standard3
- Secure & encrypted video conference2
- Great API to develop with2
- Live stream to youtube2
- Dial-In and Dial-Out via SIP1
- Full HD1
- FSB Approved1
- Share youtube videos in conference1
- Easy installation and good support1
- MCU0
Pros of WebRTC
- OpenSource3
- No Download2
- You can write anything around it, because it's a protoc1
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Cons of Jitsi
- UnLimited time6
- No multiplatform5
- Great quality1
- Good support1
- Live conference statistics1
- Great features1