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Introduction

I want to have a group movie talk and was looking into whether or not FaceTime supports that feature yet. It shows up that FaceTime does not yet support group talks. This post is actually a series of three articles that I copied and am reprinting pretty much verbatim. Each one discusses a Group Movie Talk App or Apps, that work on ios as well as what features the apps include, as of of March 2017.

For each article the title links to the main article itself and the author's name emerges right before the the very first paragraph on the left.

8 Best Movie Talk Apps

Jam Kotenko's article for GottaBeMobile.com is truly superb. Had I found this very first, I would have looked no further…but I found it last, which is why the other two are included. But the other two articles, discussing Fam and Houseparty are unique in some senses, so it's nice to know about them too I think. But Kotenko's article is the most comprehensive I've encounter in a very long time on the subject, and I'm thrilled to be able to share it with my readers.

In addition to good writeups on each service, there are links to each platform's version, as well as helpful movies about each one.

I've also included reader's comments at the bottom, because they add extra information that's also helpful.

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Movie talking is an significant part of Internet culture. It is a fine way to connect with people who are significant to us, no matter where they are in the world. Of course, having access to the best movie talk apps is also crucial, and while there are many options out there, only a few are deemed well-designed and effortless to use, with all the significant features provided.

Here are a few movie talk services for your consideration, most of which are available not only on both iOS and Android platforms, but on the desktop as well.

1. Skype (Free on Android, iOS, and Desktop)

Skype is the pioneer of movie talk apps, and since its initial public beta version release back in 2003, it has steadily grown its number of registered users. The service is strongly ingrained into the online chatter’s psyche that the name has become a verb almost everyone recognizes – “I’ll Skype you!” means you’ll be observing each other’s faces on your chosen device. If they’re not available, that’s OK – you can leave them a movie message.

Skype has had the group movie feature enabled for fairly some time now, and permits you to converse via webcam with up to twenty five people, making it a valuable implement for bridging distances inbetween colleagues, friends, and loved ones.

Two. Hangouts (Free on Android, iOS, and Desktop)

Hangouts is an instant messaging and movie talk platform developed by Google – that fact alone should be enough to give you an idea of the many things you can do with the service. You can movie talk for free – both via Wi-Fi and mobile networks – with up to ten contacts, all while being able to share your desktop screen, smack stickers onto faces, and share photos, among other things.

Trio. Facebook Messenger (Free on Android, iOS and Desktop)

Messenger is Facebook’s all-powerful talk client. While it’s got all the bells and whistles you’ll want in a text messaging app – including the capability to group text and use integrated services like Giphy and Uber within the app – its movie call function is plain to use and reliable. The best thing about Messenger? Almost everybody is on Facebook and is therefore reachable via movie call, as long as they have the app on their device or have the website open on their Web browser. (If you don’t want to deal with the information overcharge that usually comes with Facebook, you can contact your friends using Messenger’s dedicated website.)

Oh, and if that’s not good enough, Facebook recently updated Messenger so you can eventually make group movie calls, which was the only thing Skype and Hangouts had that kept Messenger from being the ultimate go-to movie talk app.

Four. ooVoo (Free on Android, iOS, and Desktop)

Just like the previous services, ooVoo lets you movie talk for free, either one on one or with a group of up to twelve people at once. You can send text, GIFs, photos, and movies while an actual movie call is in progress, permitting you to have a dynamic interaction with people you are talking to from anywhere in the world with a decent Internet or mobile network connection, whatever platform or device they are using the service on. Additionally, ooVoo lets you talk to your friends as your dearest avatar character – which you can attempt on and buy through the ooVoo Store – or wear a mask during a movie call.

Five. Tango (Free on Android and iOS)

Tango also lets you make movie calls and leave movie messages for free. You can also send animated stickers, add filters and masks. You can even play games with the person you are speaking to while you are in a call. While it doesn’t seem to be available on desktop, it’s very straightforward and elementary to use.

6. Viber (Free on Android, iOS, and Desktop)

Viber is another straightforward movie talk platform that you can use on almost any device, including your desktop. As long as the person you are talking to also has Viber installed, movie calls are absolutely free. The interface is clean and user-friendly.

7. FaceTime (Pre-installed on iOS and MacOS)

If you are an Apple user, then your go-to service for movie calling should be FaceTime, if only for the foot reason that it already comes pre-installed within your iOS device when you purchase it, so downloading isn’t necessary. (FaceTime isn’t readily available or might not emerge on devices bought or used in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.) Some significant things to note, tho’: 1. Only contacts who also have iOS devices will be the only ones you can movie talk with, and Two. You can only movie talk with one person at a time. Having said that, using FaceTime is pretty effortless and convenient.

8. Camfrog (Free on Android, iOS, and Desktop)

Ultimately, to wrap up this list, we’ve got Camfrog, a service that not only lets you movie talk privately with your friends and loved ones, but with anyone within the Camfrog community. You can join any of the thousands of talk rooms to connect with people worldwide via movie, permitting you to make fresh friends online, just like in the mIRC days. Proceed with caution, tho’, because some rooms permit explicit content that’s NSFW.

7 RESPONSES

FaceTime is not the best app because Apple doesn’t make it for Android or Windows. That is the problem with Apple software, they make it for platforms. That is not fair and they should since Google & Microsoft makes apps for Apple’s platform, so Apple should make apps for their platform as well.

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My opinion is : Messenger, ooVoo, Skype, Hangouts, Tango, Viber, Camfrog, Fring, FaceTime, WeChat

ever heard about a petite unknown so called WhatsApp? it has movie calls as well

My opinion is : WhatsApp, Skype, Hangouts, FBK Messenger, ooVoo

You have collective very helpful and gorgeous apps. I always attempt to use the above app. But most of the times these apps are incapable to make a movie call in low quality network signal and 2G network.

There is no 3G network in my village, As a result, i can’t open the facebook messenger in my village.

So i installed the imo messenger. Now i can make a movie call in 2G network also. I can connect to my town’s friends via imo.

By the way, thanks for share an informative article.

Agree with you! Skype is my very first choose for online free movie calls. But I dislike the Facebook messenger movie calls. Because it is very abhorrent for poor movie calling quality at low quality network signal. But I can make a high quality movie call via skype within poor quality network also! But your information is very useful. So Thank You.

This Is the Fresh ‘Group FaceTime’ App That Apple Didn’t Develop | Fortune.com

Why People Are Freaking Out About This Fresh ‘Group FaceTime’ App

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You might have seen people excitedly tweeting in the last two weeks that “group FaceTime” is ultimately here. But make no mistake – it’s not tech giant Apple behind this fresh iMessage -based app. It’s three guys in Boston you’ve never heard of.

Giuseppe Stuto, 27, Frank Iudiciani, 23, and Kevin Flynn, 32, are the three co-founders behind the hot fresh live group movie talk app, Fam. Launched on Dec. Five, it has already been downloaded more than one million times and has received hundreds of thousands social media mentions, Stuto says. As of today, Fam is featured in the No. Two spot under “Top Free Apps” in Apple’s iMessage App Store. (For an explainer on the iMessage App Store, read this.)

Fam – Group movie talking for iMessage

Fam is a big deal because users don’t have to venture outside of iMessage, Apple’s instant messaging service. Unlike competitors such as movie group talk app Houseparty, Fam lives in iMessage the way your GIF or Bitmoji keyboards do. Once you download it once through the fresh iMessage App Store, you can begin movie talks with up to nine people at a time in your existing iMessage conversations without opening a separate application. Because it runs through iMessage, it can only be used in conversations with other iPhone or iPad owners.

All of this commenced in September when Apple opened iMessage to developers as a platform to create apps that could include stickers, text, movie and audio. At the time, Stuto and his team were working on Smack Live, a group movie platform where teenagers would broadcast their conversations publicly with other users also using the app. The three co-founders dreamed to find a way to give users a more private practice exclusively for their family and friends.

“We were attempting to think of solutions to build a home for these people who wished to use it as a private group FaceTime feature,” Stuto says.

Within two days, they had a working version of the Fam app. And within four days, they submitted the very first Fam iteration to the iMessage App Store. “Fam was literally a weekend project,” Stuto says.

That weekend project has taken a life of its own and exploded in popularity, particularly with thirteen to 22-year-olds. Tho’ Stuto would not disclose the average time users spend interacting with the app, he said it was “millions of minutes” of movie rivulets per day.

Smack Inc, the two-year old company behind Fam, had raised about $Two.1 million in venture capital for its previous group talk apps Smack Live and SmackHigh. But since the launch of Fam, the founders had to raise an emergency interim round of financing to keep the fresh app afloat. “We literally wouldn’t have been able to afford our server costs for next month,” Stuto says.

Flybridge Capital, Boston Seed Capital, and Wayne Chang, who led Smack’s seed round, have re-committed in the interim round. Stuto says he’s speaking with more investors about a Series A round, which will likely close in 2017.

There are a few more kinks the company has to metal out. Right now, there are numerous steps a user has to go through to download the Fam app. (Here’s a preview: open iMessage, click the dark gray App Store icon, click the four dots on the bottom left, scroll left or right to find the Fam app, once you see the “create group video” button, click that button. Got it?) Still, the app has gotten more than a million downloads in spite of this.

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Two, it doesn’t run on background meaning that if you want to open another app, like Facebook or Snapchat, the Fam movie talk will terminate.

The Fam team is already working on solutions. The company will soon release a standalone iOS app that will take care of both issues outlined above. The iOS app would come bundled with the iMessage app, automatically installing it in the user’s iMessage. It will also permit Fam to run on background.

The thickest question mark is what’s next for the 14-day-old app. Will Apple build its own group movie talk instrument and eliminate the need for a product like Fam? Right now, the likely reaction is no.

If Fam is successful, it gives Apple the capability to tout the innovation coming out of its fresh iMessage App Store. It also doesn’t hurt that millions of people are spending more and more time in iMessage.

“Apple is opening up to a entire fresh wave of innovators and product builders,” Stuto says. “We’re fortunate enough to be here at the early wave, and I think Apple sees that.”

Meerkat Lives On As Live Group Movie Talk App Houseparty

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After pivoting from livestreaming movie to a group movie talk, Life on Air, the developer behind Meerkat, is ultimately ready to talk about a fresh app and lessons learned.

Meerket, the company's original live streaming app, went viral just before the South by Southwest festival in 2015. With help from the large interest in the app, it collected $14 million in venture capital from a number of VCs and Hollywood insiders.

But the success, as with many Silicon Valley startups, was fleeting. Even however at one point Meerkat had accumulated millions of users, the app faced a harsh challenge in rivaling in mobile livestreaming against Twitter's rival suggesting, Periscope, and Facebook's competitor, Facebook Live. While Meerkat is still in the Apple App Store, the startup behind the app has switched course and is working on something fresh..

That fresh venture is called is Houseparty, and CEO and co-founder Ben Rubin best describes it as an informal way to have group movie talks on phones. After use of the livestreaming app began slowing last summer, Rubin, his COO Sima Sistani, and the team determined that the startup should concentrate on something fresh. “Retention wasn't good, people were not coming back,” explained Rubin. “Live movie is superb as a feature on top of an existing social network, not as its own medium.”

Rubin and his team still wished to concentrate on live mobile movie, but in a more private, yet social practice. “We didn't want to be a theatre, we dreamed to be a house party,” said Rubin. By the end of February, the company had created and calmly debuted their fresh vision, Houseparty, in the Apple App Store. It's also available at the Google Play store too .

In ordinary terms, the iOS app is a way to talk with friends and family using movie. After downloading the app, users can invite contacts to become friends within Houseparty. Whenever the app is opened, friends get shove notifications about it and can commence to movie talk. The amount of thrust notifications could be intrusive, but users can also turn them off. Users can add other friends to a maximum of eight people in one talk. Users can also make talks, or “rooms” private, and they can switch from room to room.

If a someone who is not a friend joins a movie talk such as a friend of a friend, users get a notification that a stranger is coming in the room in case they want to end the talk.

Inbetween February and May, the app commenced taking off, Sistani and Rubin explained. This was partly because the startup was marketing the service at colleges and high schools in the South and Midwest. Word spread, and the app quickly gained hundreds of thousands of users, according to Rubin. At one point, it rose to number two in the Apple app store rankings for top apps.

But over the summer, Houseparty's traffic dropped off. That's mainly because the app had not been built to treat the explosion of hundreds of thousands of simultaneous movie talks. So the team had to rebuild the app, and re-launched it in the app store a month ago. Now Houseparty has hit one million users (but declined to say whether these are monthly or daily users), and is growing steadily, says Rubin. Signups have quadrupled in some of markets in the past month. Sistani says that the app's userbase skews to the under twenty five crowd, with many of the users at universities and high schools.

And like Meerkat, Houseparty doesn't yet make any revenue, and Rubin and his team have not yet thought about how to make money. The company has not yet determined whether to shut down Meerkat's app.

As for competition, there's no shortage of group, mobile movie talk apps, including Microsoft's Skype, and Google Hangouts. Facebook has group calling in its popular talk app Messenger and it's likely only a matter of time before the social network adds movie capabilities. There's also Tango and Facebook-owned WhatsApp.

But Rubin claims that these apps are formal in nature, meaning you have to plan Google Hangout by sending a link around to friends. There's not a social component to these apps, he adds. The comparison he makes is that Picasa and Flickr were good ways to share photos with people before Instagram, but when Instagram launched it added a fresh social element to how people viewed each others photos. “We want to do that with group movie,” he said.

Even tho’ the company has a renewed direction, there are still fights, or “growing anguishes,” as reported by tech news site Recode this week. After Life On Air hired a fresh head of engineering from Twitter, the startup determined to restructure its engineering team, downsizing its team in Tel Aviv, Israel, and centralizing engineering staff in San Francisco. The company still has a movie engineering staff in Tel Aviv, but the bulk of its sixteen employees are now based in the Bay Area. Rubin adds that the company is hiring more engineers.

But Rubin and his team have resilience, if all their pivots are any indication. Meerkat was actually born from another pivot. Prior to Meerkat, Rubin and the same team had spent years of working on other unsuccessful livestreaming apps, formerly known as AIR and Yevvo. The company had just recently shifted concentrate to Meerkat when it caught on—albeit temporarily— in 2015.

Perhaps the fourth time is a charm for Rubin and his team. He remains optimistic despite Meerkat's past fights. “If we are a little but fortunate and a little bit brainy, maybe we will have a big influence this time,” he said. “The last thing I want to do is waste investors money and die leisurely.”

My Comments

You can add up to sixteen people to a group talk. I added an App Store link and screenshot of the Fam app to the 2nd article. Reading through user reviews they are generally positive. It seems the developer is updating the app regularly and there are some joy additions to the ground talk feature like games. The largest problems seem to be glitches which cause the app to crash and battery drain.

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I added LINKS to the Houseparty app for ios and Google Play in the article above. As well as a screenshot of the ios app. The developers seem to be actively updating the app a lot, and paying lot of attention to what features users want. There are some cool joy features that are hard to explain but you can observe YouTube movies to get a better sense of them. The one big negative I read consistently about the app, which emerges not t have been fixes as of March 20, 2017, is that the app drains iPhone batteries a lot. Other than that it emerges to be a indeed joy app with a excellent dev team behind it.

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