Zoom Desktop client, mobile app, web client, and PWA comparison

An outline of Zoom’s features can be found in the table below. Zoom desktop clients, mobile apps, web clients, and PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) can all be downloaded.

Note :

This web portal has different features, which are different from those in the Zoom desktop, mobile, and web clients. It is primarily used for changing the settings of your Zoom profile, meeting settings and Zoom Phone setup on the Zoom web portal. As well as scheduling meetings, viewing and editing them, you are also able to utilize the web portal.

Prerequisites for desktop client, mobile app, web client and PWA comparison

Zoom desktop client or mobile app must be updated to the most recent version.
Check the minimum requirements for the web client.

Comparison

Note :

If you are on a mobile device, we recommend you to use the mobile app. If you are not able to access the other options, you may make use of the web client.
The owner, the admin, or the host of the account has the ability to disable some features.
You can check out our Zoom Phone comparison for more information.
Web clients can either be used with Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari. This is because, as of Internet Explorer, the web client doesn’t support the following features: screen sharing, joining computer audio, viewing shared video, and simultaneous screen sharing.

Feature	Windows macOS	Linux	Android iOS	Chrome OS	Web client	PWA
Start or join meeting
Join a meeting without signing in	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Join a meeting in progress	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Sign in using Zoom account, Google, Facebook, or SSO	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Start an instant meeting.	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Schedule one-time or recurring meeting	✓	✓	✓
Share your screen in a Zoom Room by entering in the sharing key or meeting ID.	✓	✓	✓
Display upcoming meetings	✓	✓	✓
Display synced calendar events (if you added a third-party calendar service)	✓	✓	✓
View, edit, start, or delete your scheduled meetings	✓	✓	✓			✓
Participants are pre-assigned to breakout rooms (if set up by the host)	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Transfer meetings between devices	✓	✓	✓
In-meeting controls (participants and hosts)
Join computer audio	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓ (A)	✓
Mute/unmute mic	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Start/stop video	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Invite others to join meeting	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Change your screen name for the meeting	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Non-verbal feedback	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Share screen	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓ (B)	✓
In-meeting chat	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Save in-meeting chat	✓	✓
Start cloud recording	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Start local recording	✓	✓
Request remote control	✓	✓	✓ (C)		✓ (D)	✓
Give remote control	✓	✓
Gallery View and Active Speaker View	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Stop all incoming video	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Participant in breakout rooms	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Self-select breakout room	✓	✓	✓ (E)	✓ (E)	✓	✓
Answer polls	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Language interpretation	✓		✓		✓ (F)
Live transcription	✓		✓	✓	✓	✓
Reclaim host	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Zoom Apps	✓
Active Apps Notifier	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
In-meeting controls (hosts and co-hosts)
Create, edit, and launch standard polls	✓	✓			✓	✓
Create, edit, and launch advanced polls and quizzes	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Start and manage breakout rooms (host only)	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
View pre-assigned participants in breakout rooms (if set up in web portal)	✓	✓			✓	✓
Live stream meeting	✓	✓	✓ (Youtube only)		✓	✓
Focus mode	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Immersive view	✓		✓
Report a participant for inappropriate behavior	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
In-meeting security controls (hosts and co-hosts)
Lock meeting (don’t allow other participants to join the meeting in progress)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Place the attendee in a virtual waiting room	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Control if participants can share screen	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Control if participants can use in-meeting chat	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Control if participants can unmute or rename themselves	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Webinar controls (hosts)
Launch question and answer session	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Launch polls	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Live stream webinar	✓	✓	✓ (Youtube only)		✓	✓
Manage participants (hosts)
Stop a participant’s video	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Assign a participant to be the host	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Assign a participant to be a co-host	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Allow a participant to start or stop a recording	✓	✓	✓	✓
Assign a participant to type closed caption	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Change a participant’s name that is displayed to other participants	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Remove participant from meeting	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Mute all participants/ask all to unmute	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Automatically mute participants as they join the meeting	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Play chime when participants join and leave	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Don’t allow other participants to join the meeting in progress	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Control who participants can chat with	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Put a participant on hold	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Check invited participants attendance status	✓
Share screen controls
Share whiteboard	✓	✓	✓
Share device audio	✓	✓	✓
Annotate on shared screen or whiteboard	✓	✓	✓
Pause your current shared screen	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Show or hide names of annotators	✓	✓	✓
Stop a participant’s screen share (host and co-host only)	✓	✓	✓
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Control if multiple participants can share screen simultaneously	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Side-by-side mode	✓	✓			✓	✓
Profile
Add a personal note	✓	✓	✓
Change profile photo or screen name Note: On the desktop client, you will be redirected to the web portal to change your screen name	✓	✓	✓			✓
Manually change your status	✓	✓
Chat
Mark messages as unread	✓		✓
Edit your sent messages	✓	✓
Delete your sent messages, images, or files	✓	✓	✓
Save images or files sent in the chat	✓	✓	✓
Add messages to your starred list and view all messages you have starred	✓	✓	✓
View starred messages in a specific chat	✓	✓	✓
Use your personal chat space	✓	✓	✓
Send images or files	✓	✓	✓
View all files sent or all files received in chat	✓	✓	✓
Share sent or received chat files with contacts	✓		✓
Send a capture of the current screen	✓	✓
Send animated GIFs	✓	✓	✓
Send code snippets	✓	✓
Send emoticons	✓	✓	✓
Encrypted chat	✓	✓	✓
Store chat message history	✓	✓	✓
Invite contacts to an existing chat	✓	✓	✓
Channels
Change notifications for new channel messages	✓	✓	✓
Add channels to your starred list and view channels you have starred	✓	✓	✓
Create a channel	✓	✓	✓
Edit a channel (must be a channel admin)	✓	✓	✓
Invite members to a channel	✓	✓	✓
Contacts
Add contacts	✓	✓	✓
Add contacts to your starred list and view contacts you have starred	✓	✓	✓
Directory for contacts, channels, and Zoom Rooms	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
Add contact to auto-answer group	✓	✓
Settings
Automatically join meeting by computer or device audio	✓	✓	✓	✓
Automatically mute when joining meeting	✓	✓	✓	✓
Automatically call phone number to join meeting			✓
Insert a link preview whenever a chat message contains a link	✓		✓
Change notification settings for chat	✓	✓	✓
Manage blocked contacts	✓	✓
Display meeting reminders	✓	✓	✓
Display connected meeting time	✓		✓
Display closed captions (if available)	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Automatically disable your video when joining a meeting	✓	✓	✓	✓
Touch up appearance	✓	✓	✓ (iOS only)
Virtual Background	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Video filters	✓		✓

Note (A):

Safari only allows webinar attendees to join computer audio.

Note (B):

Microsoft Edge does not support screen sharing unless you are running Windows 10 Enterprise or Pro. For users of Windows 10 Home, this feature is not available. Windows 10 Home users running Chrome or Firefox are recommended to use this feature if you need to share your screen with others.
Sharing your screen with Safari is not possible.

Note (C):

You cannot request remote control or give remote control if you have joined a conference via an iOS or Android device. This means that you must be given remote control of the Zoom desktop application from the participant who is screen sharing with you.

Note (D):

Content that is shared from a desktop client or mobile app can be controlled from outside the desktop client or mobile app, but content that is shared from an external web client cannot be controlled from outside the web client.

Note (E):

There is a self-selection option available on the Zoom mobile app and Chrome OS for those launching breakout rooms, but it is not available for meeting participants. There must be an option to enable self-selection of breakout rooms on the desktop client to be able to use it.

Note (F):

You can only listen to language interpretation if you join a meeting from a web client, you cannot be the interpreter of a meeting.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you would like to use the desktop client or the mobile app, we recommend that you do so. If you are not able to access the other options, then you should use the web client instead. The owner of the account, the administrator, or the host of the account can disable certain features on the account. See our Zoom Phone comparison for more information on the features that Zoom Phone has to offer.

Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and group messaging into one easy-to-use platform. The Zoom web portal is primarily used by the Zoom users to change their meeting settings and Zoom Phone settings in order to get the best video, audio, and wireless screen-sharing experience across multiple platforms. In addition, you can also customize your profile using the web portal.

Using Zoom Phone, you can quickly and easily contact someone who is using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) when you need to use a cloud-based calling solution. It is important to note that this platform does not offer video calls, in contrast to the Zoom experience of the past

Web clients have limited capabilities and work best on Firefox, Chrome, or Chromium depending on which browser you are using.

In addition to supporting some of the same features as Zoom for Chrome’s desktop client or mobile app, Zoom for Chrome also provides access to some of the same features as the Zoom for Chrome PWA (Progressive Web App) inside the Chrome web browser.

Using Zoom, you can host online meetings, participate in cloud video conferencing, and communicate with others using simple group messaging in one simple tool.

With our solution you will be able to share videos, audios, and screens wirelessly across a wide range of platforms.

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