App Hangouts For Mac
I’ve been on the lookout for a Google Hangouts desktop app for the Mac and there are actually few decent choices out there.
First off, I don’t want to run a Chrome extension and I don’t want to have to keep Gmail open in the background. That works for some, but it’s either out of sight, out of mind, or it’s jumping up in front of everything else annoying me. My goal is a Hangout app that can live without a browser.
Recently I found YakYak. YakYak is actually quite impressive. It looks great, works pretty darn good, and it’s free currently. I accidentally stumbled upon it the other day and I’ve been using it ever since. So far, so good, however it’s currently in development and does lack some features; like spell check.
- Google's instant messaging tool, Hangouts, can now be used directly in Chrome thanks to this extension, which adds an icon for the app to the right of the address bar where you can quickly access your list of friends. You can use this to start a conversation with any of the users that are online.
- This app would be perfect if it allowed videos to be sent into the chat. Why do the Android and iOS Hangouts apps allow this, but not the CHROMEBOOK Hangouts app?! Chromebooks are Google products. You would think that they would be fully optimized for all Google software.
- Use Hangouts to keep in touch. Message contacts, start free video or voice calls, and hop on a conversation with one person or a group. Include all your contacts with group chats for up to 150 people. Say more with status messages, photos, videos, maps, emoji, stickers, and animated GIFs. Turn any conversation into a free group video call with up to 10 contacts. Call any phone.
I also purchased Hangouts Plus not long ago. It’s a pretty good app that looks similar to Hangouts. The main downsides are that it’s a paid app, although not too spendy, and it has a weird “feature” where it makes the active chat tab grey and background tabs white. This is backwards to me.
Flamingo was the hot new app not long ago, but recently it went free and then I think development stopped, or slowed way down. It’s a decent app, great interface, spell check, and free. Definitely worth checking out since it’s free, but it’s starting to show the lack of updates as some things don’t seem to work like they should.
There’s also BetterApp and Chat for Hangouts but I haven’t tried them. They look a lot like Hangouts Plus though.
Messages and Adium work with Hangouts too, but only for basic text messages. They don’t include some of the bells and whistles and they don’t do a good job at marking things as read in Gmail. When I go back into Gmail, I hate seeing unread Hangout conversations when I’ve already completed those conversations.
Entry for Google Hangouts - how do I download the app on PC? If you want to download the software on your pc or mac, you could either first visit the Mac store or Windows AppStore and search for the app OR you can easily use any of the download links we provided above under the 'Download and Install' header section to download the application.
At the end of the day, there really isn’t any great Hangouts desktop app for the Mac. There are some pretty good choices, but Hangouts is still best in the browser, even if some of us don’t want to be locked in the browser.
You can use this to start a conversation with any of the users that are online. If somebody is not online, you can still leave them a message for them to read later and respond whenever they want to.
You can use the same Hangouts interface to choose if you want to save the chat history for your conversations with one particular friend or not, if you want to disable the user notifications, or if you want to archive a whole conversation directly. You can also block someone.
Hangouts is a relatively useful and full-featured instant messaging tool for your browser. Though it is somewhat minimalist, it has all of the features that you need to communicate with your friends or co-workers.
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