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Zoom offers a variety of third-party-app integrations through its App Marketplace. Skype integrates with other Microsoft products including Word, OneDrive and Outlook, as well as third-party apps like Slack and WordPress. You can expand the power of each tool through an array of integrations with other apps. Zoom, however, has some business-ready capabilities Skype lacks, such as breakout sessions, the ability to generate meeting transcripts, webinar hosting, and a robust set of meeting analytics and reporting tools. Both support screen sharing, whiteboarding, and the sharing of documents and other files-all essential for getting work done.

Once you look beyond videoconferencing, the two tools’ basic feature sets compare pretty favorably. Zoom supports hundreds of participants per meeting The process is done through a Skype web interface and takes just a few clicks. Hosts can now create and share a free meeting even if they don’t have Skype software downloaded on their machine. But Skype recently upped the ante with a feature called Meet Now that’s been promoted heavily during the coronavirus shutdown. Zoom can accommodate up to 1,000 video participants and 49 on-screen videos.Īnother difference: Both Zoom and Skype allow users to participate in a meeting even if they don’t have an account-they can simply join via a shared link or code. Skype can support up to 50 participants on a single video conference (the same limit applies to voice calls). While both Skype and Zoom allow you to hold video meetings and record them for later review, they differ significantly in scale.