Whereby 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: Whereby
Rating: 4.5 (117 reviews)

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Overview

Whereby

4.5

(117)

Pricing

Starting at $6.99 per month

About Whereby

When it comes to video meetings and video conferencing, Whereby is the easiest tool to use. Unlike traditional video conferencing tools, Whereby doesn't require any software download or account set up for guests. Whereby provides dead simple video meetings and makes it easy for your team members to connect with one another.

Built in Norway by privacy-friendly Europeans, your video conferences are safe. Whereby is GPDR compliant.

Whereby offers several video meetings plan; a free basic service, a Pro service for freelancers or remote professionals, and flexible Business product designed to serve the SMB market.

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Whereby Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $6.99 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

$0.00

Plan includes:

1 Host
1 Room URL
Group Meetings for up to 45 Minutes
Host up to 100 Participants
Unlimited One-on-One Meetings

Pro

$6.99

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

1 Host
Custom Branding
Everything in Free Plan
No Time Limit on Group Meetings
Plus: 3 Room Urls
Unlimited Recording

Business

$29.97

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Custom Subdomain
Everything in Pro Pla
Plus: Unlimited Room Urls
Priority Support
Shared Rooms

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Whereby Features

Popular features found in Online Meeting
Access Controls/Permissions
Alerts/Notifications
Call Recording
Chat/Messaging
Customizable Branding
Electronic Hand Raising
Mobile Access
Scheduling
Third-Party Integrations
Whiteboard
More features of Whereby
API
Attendee Management
Brand Management
Collaboration Tools
Communication Management
Conferencing
Drag & Drop
File Sharing
Host Controls
Live Chat
Presentation Streaming
Presentation Tools
Private Chat
Real-Time Chat
Recording
Screen Sharing
Two Way Audio & Video
Two-Way Audio & Video
User Profiles
Video Call Recording
Video Conferencing
Video Support

Whereby Integrations

Slack

Google Docs

Trello

Miro

Whereby User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

60%

32%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.2

Jennie Z.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Whereby is the underdog of video platforms

My company is a music lesson platform, custom-built for music lessons. Whenever we are running into technical issues or the student's bandwidth/connection is not strong enough, we love using Whereby as a backup.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

-Easy to use -Pricing plans are more affordable than Zoom -Love how you can brand and create private rooms

Cons:

-Download is required on mobile phone -Brand is more unknown, so there's a mini learning phase in the beginning of the meeting for new users -Wish everyone can record. Not just the owner of the account.

Reasons for choosing Whereby

Whereby uses the same video technology (WebRTC) as we do for my music lesson platform company.

Christoph T.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

An easy to use video conferencing solution with good quality

Whereby is a quick and easy meeting tool working seemlessly, stable and looking very nice. It also offers a lot of useful features.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I like about Whereby is, that it is very easy to use and contains a lot of useful features. The interfaces looks very good and users usually get how it works while using it for the first time. The video quality as well as audio is very good. I would even say it's the best quality from the video conferencing solutions I've used so far. The meeting page is very customizable with colors and background images. It also features useful features like breakout-rooms, noise reduction, integration of several collaboration tools, screen sharing and a very nice chat function. The prizing is, starting at $6,99, very cheap. As well nice is, that the meeting url always stays the same. And nobody needs to install any software for using it. It just works in the browser.

Cons:

Whereby could use a little makeover in case of the android app. It hasn't been updated for quite a while. It's basically a full screen browser. It would be nice, if that could be solved. Helpful would be also, if there could be shown more than just 12 people on camera.

Reasons for choosing Whereby

Because it just works and nobody needs to install any software. I'm still using Jitsi as well. Zoom is not the software of my choice, because it's too complicated.

Lawrent M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

A limited web conference tool

I have now stopped using Whereby to exclusively use Zoom. Whereby is great with friends, but not so much for professional audiences.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to invite guests, fast access, high-quality video and audio.

Cons:

Limitations in file sharing (only supports Google drive, unable to upload a file from the computer), virtual background privacy feature (unable to add a virtual background image to protect your privacy), and screen sharing (you have to share the whole screen, at least from a Mac).

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Quick and easy meetings.

It is a very easy to use tool, very stable and that allows there to be a fluidity in any meeting that is maintained through it. You can make use of features such as video, screen sharing, audio and chat.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

You can make use of the tool for the administration of a work team. It is so easy to use that you can use it every day and even stay online all day.

Cons:

Being a quick-use tool, it lacks more important features that as a user part of a work team, you might need. This is the case of file management.

Reasons for choosing Whereby

Because of its ease of use for any internal or external user of the organization. It is also so stable that it has no competition with other more robust applications.

Yann I.

Verified reviewer

Online Media

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

A reliable and easy-to-use solution to host video calls

Whereby has been a solid solution to easily organize and host consulting calls and "virtual coffees". Its ease of use, and the fact that can be used both on computer, as well as on tablet and smartphone, make it a no-brainer and a tool that should be in every digital business owner's toolkit.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I had been using a wide variety of video conferencing tools before I started using Whereby and the things I found have made a difference are: — the array of features: you can create customized and branded "virtual rooms" where to host calls, you can have one-on-one and group calls and you can do so both through the web-based version and the smartphone version of Whereby — ease of use for both the conference call host and participants: it's incredibly easy to organize your first video conferencing call and have people join it, especially because there's no download nor installation required for them to use the web version of Whereby — web and apps: some video conferencing tools are available only through their web version, while Whereby lets you have calls with your computer, as well as with your smartphone or tablet through the mobile device app

Cons:

The one thing I don't think is ideal about Whereby is the fact that Call Recording is an add-on feature. I wouldn't have an issue with it being an add-on feature available for the Whereby Pro Plan. However, even if one purchases the Pro Plan, he/she needs to purchase Call Recording as a separate add-on (which cannot be bought as a standalone feature). So you'd end up paying for two separate things: for the Pro Plan and for the Call Recording feature.

Reasons for choosing Whereby

Because of the features and the mobile app

Reasons for switching to Whereby

I had Daily.co crash on a couple of occasions and I lost the recordings of those calls

Eddy F.

Verified reviewer

Wholesale

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Whereby Connect you and your team fast and easy

I like these services because I can create one unique link to share with family, friends, and coworkers, with this just enter the link and you are instantly connected. I will add some sort of approval by the admin to join the meeting.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This service it is easy to use, it is very fast and consumes little to none resources for the machine and connection, I've used it with connections less than 1Mbps of internet speed and I still can share screen and video (not the best quality) but it works. A great option for meetings.

Cons:

I can't see any cons just yet. Maybe the interface is too simple (for some people) but I choose performance over graphics any time of the week. (Maybe: One con would be that any person with your personalized link can access to the meeting)

Reasons for switching to Whereby

Skype it is too heavy to run and takes a lot of resources for the machine and the internet connection.

Luca Stefano S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

Wonderful if you can stay in the free version

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It's easy to use and there's no explanation needed when you invite a customer to your room, plus I love the fact that you have your custom room url.

Cons:

The limit of 4 people is really tight and forces you to upgrade. Since when I decided to leave it, they integrated a better pricing plan that allows to pay for the room instead of paying per user and that's much better.

Reasons for switching to Whereby

Zoom was unstable and needed additional software to be installed to run properly. The web version was terrible (at least at the time we used it)

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

Simple, Solid, Effective Product.

Facilitating really solid communication via a remote needs. We were on Zoom for a while but realized its just too complicated for what it offers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use of Whereby is the best part of it. No downloading software, no adding extensions, no asking people to install anything. Everyone can join in really simple. It really helps connecting with clients quickly and efficiently.

Cons:

There's not much to dislike, the simplicity of it makes it that easy. Sometimes the connections are spotty.

Reasons for switching to Whereby

Too much hassle, too complicated. Not simplified.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

Great Alternative Video Conferencing App

My experience with whereby has been good to date

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The seamless no download and no sign-in (unless you are hosting) features are one of my favorites form the Whereby App

Cons:

Integration with outlook or google calendar would be great add-on at the moment ones rehires to hop on difference interfaces/software tools to get this done

Reasons for choosing Whereby

Ease of use and low cost + great UI/UX look and feel

Reasons for switching to Whereby

Ease of use and low cost + great UI/UX look and feel

Ioana G.

Verified reviewer

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

201-500 employees

Used monthly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Finally a screen-sharing tool that doesn't require an extension installation

I have had numerous issues with my research participants dropping off, not being able to connect or getting frustrated because of the video call software. Not having to to explain in entire paragraphs to participanta how to connect is wonderful!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

No need to install an extension. It's simplicity, particularly since we have participants of various technical capabilities

Cons:

Haven't found anything yet! But - you still need the app to share your screen on mobile. Recordings cost extra (but still affordable).

Reasons for choosing Whereby

No need to install an extension. A looot simpler for my guests. Works on various browsers.

Reasons for switching to Whereby

It just didn't work most of the time with my remote user research participants. Connection issues, the mobile iOS app was breaking the participant's page and generally very frustrating. Only worked on Chrome and I didn't want to ask participants to install Chrome.

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