ooVoo is a free video chat and instant messaging client that allow consumers and businesses to experience real-time video conferencing on PC, Mac, Tablets, iOS and Android smartphone. With ooVoo you can chat and make voice and video calls with up-to 12 people for totally free. In addition to high-resolution video calling, it also offer various other useful service like, desktop sharing, video recording, file sharing and calls to landline and mobile phones.

ooVoo Free Features :

• Video Calls: Video Calling among the 12 participant simultaneously.
• Web based calling: Allow the initiator of Web based calling to invite non-ooVoo user into video call by sending their personal link through email or social networks.
• Video Message:  Send a video greeting of 5 minutes to multiple people at once.
• Instant messaging: During the video call can chat with up-to 12 members.
• Video call recording: Record your video chat for future reference.
• File Sharing: Send files up-to 25 MB to any of your contact.
• Push Notifications: Get notification about the arrival of new message or call.
• Integration with Social network: ooVoo Synchronize with your Facebook or twitter to find your friends who also use ooVoo.

ooVoo Paid Features :

• Video conferencing: Video conferencing with up to 12 people at once. Besides, provide capability to add additional 6 people over phone.
• Telephone calls: Call landline and mobile phones in 70 countries worldwide at the cheapest possible rate.
• Screen Sharing: During the video call users can share their computer screen with other participants in the call.
• Video Storage: Allow you to store 1,000 minutes of recorded call.
• No ads: users will not be bothered with sponsored ads.

Getting stated with ooVoo :-

How to register an ooVoo account:

• Open any web browser and go to the ooVoo.com . Click on “Get ooVoo” button present on top right corner of the screen. Choose the Mac or PC version and click on the downloading link.

• Once downloading has finished, double click on downloaded file to launch the installation wizard. Simply follow the on-screen command to complete the installation process and then launch the ooVoo on your PC.

• Now you need to create a fresh account, for this click on “Sign Up for ooVoo” button present at the bottom of program. Fill all the required information asked by them including username, password, email id, etc. and click on “Sign Up” button. Once your account is created you are ready to use ooVoo.

How to add friends in ooVoo:

• Login to your account.

• Now you need to add friends, to do that navigate to the “contact tab” and click on “Add friends”. Here you will see a lot of options, like “facebook, twitter, IM, mail and searching on ooVoo” through which you can add friends.

Example :

1. If you want to add your facebook friends to your ooVoo account just click on the facebook icon, here you will ask to enter your facebook id and password. Enter that and click on “login with facebook” button.

Follow on screen command and at end you will see a message that “your facebook friend were added to your account”.

For your confirmation just see your contact list and you will be surprised to see, that your facebook friends  are already present in the list. You will see a facebook icon next to your FB contact.

2. Well, if you want to add friend by searching on ooVoo then click on the icon “search on ooVoo”. To search simply enter your friend’s ooVoo ID, name or email and click on the search button.

Once your search is complete, a pop screen will appear to display the result, if result is accurate click on “add” button for adding him to your contact list.

How to make video calls in ooVoo:

To initiate a video calls get back to your contact list, click on the video chat icon next to your online contact. As soon as the person you are calling will accept your call, you will be able to talk.

On the top of the calling window you will see 5 tab:

1. Add to call: During the video call you can add as many people as you want from your contact list or by calling their mobile or by sending call me link via email or facebook.

2. Actions: In this tab you will get a variety of functions like chat, video recording, Screen Share and take a snapshot.

How to create Call Me Button in ooVoo:

To create a call me button, simply go to the “my account” and then click on the “My Call Me Button” link. Once you clicked on that it will be redirected to your default web browser. Here you will be asked to enter you id and password, and to select your Call Me Button. Once did, copy the HTML code and add it to your blog, web site, and social networking page.

ooVoo Mobile Application:

If you are a person who uses their smartphone for group video calling then you definitely need to know about ooVoo mobile apps. ooVoo is a innovative smartphone app that allows you to communicate with up to 12 people via text and video chat. You can make call either using Wi-Fi or 3G/4G connectivity. Currently, the application is compatible with several models of iPhone and Android smartphone. Later, will add the compatibility with other devices.

Key features :

• Video calls with up to 12 concurrent members.
• Text chat with your friends during a video call.
• Automatic notification of incoming calls and messages.
• History of your video chats and text messaging.
• Contacts can be imported from your instant messaging or social networking account.

To download the Video Conferencing App for your iPhone | Android Smartphone simply follow the link.

Conclusion :

In this article, i have tried to explain all significant features of ooVoo video conferencing app, i hope you all will definitely like it. If you need to know anything else just let me know, i will be pleased to help you.