'ooVoo's new Mac app provides users with a brand new look and experience, while still giving them the highest quality one-on-one and group video calling features they already know and love.

App Store purchases are safe and simple, so you can start playing, gaming, reading — or just doing — straight away. Create a secure account with your preferred payment method on file and it’s easily accessible across your devices and the web. Features of ooVoo app. Free calling is the main feature of ooVoo app. You can make high quality free video calls and voice calls to your friends who using ooVoo as long you want to. The ooVoo app works on Android mobiles and tablets, Amazon Fire Phone, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac computer, Windows Phone and Windows PC. You can make free.

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ooVoo Editor's Review

How would you like to video chat with six of your friends or family all at the same time all from the comfort of your own home without paying a penny?
With ooVoo you can, and a lot more besides. Interested? Allow us to explain just why ooVoo video chat software has got us so excited.
What Does It Do?
Quite simply, OoVoo allows you to video chat across a wide spectrum of platforms. You can download the necessary software onto your PC, Mac, smart-phone or tablet, and you’re good to go. With HD quality you can chat up to six people at once, which is pretty mind-blowing and the equivalent to having all your best friends or close family in the same room as you.
Oovoo is also a great way to meet new people online to have fun with through facebook and other social networking sites. In fact, the contacts book is now bulging at the seams thanks to OoVoo making it so easy to invite new users with a handy tool for adding Skype callers to group video chats without requiring them to download the app.
Benefits
With OoVoo you can make free group video calls with up to six people, record and send video messages, record and upload calls to YouTube and send instant messages to your contacts on OoVoo, Skype and Facebook. You can also set up your own web chat room for free.
Conclusion
For our money, OoVoo is definitely a serious contender to make a claim for the reigning champ of video chat, Skype’s crown. It’s a clinch to download and you install it on any device in less than a minute. If you like making great-looking video calls and find six-way video conferencing is essential to maintain the pace of your hectic social and business life, ooVoo is just the ticket for you. So don’t delay and play today.

ooVoo Publisher's Description

oVoo brings easy video chat to all platforms. Download ooVoo video chat software on your PC, Mac, smartphone or tablet and video chat in HD quality one to one, or chat with up to 6 people at once! It’s easy, fun and the best way to meet new people online to chat with. See your friends on their phones, computers or web, or meet new people to video call...

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ooVoo was a video chat and a messaging app developed by ooVoo LLC and owned by Krush Technologies, LLC. ooVoo had applications for Android, iOS, Mac OS X,^[1]Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, and Facebook. The original Microsoft Windows app was released in 2007. On November 25, 2017, ooVoo announced via Twitter that it would be shutting down.^[2]

Features[edit]

ooVoo allowed users to communicate through free messaging, voice, and video chat. ooVoo video conferencing technology enabled high-quality video and audio calls with up to twelve participants simultaneously, HD video and desktop sharing.

History[edit]

ooVoo was founded in 2006 by Ohio entrepreneur Clay Mathile^[3] based on technology developed at Arel Communications and Software (Formerly NASDAQ:ARLCF). Arel was founded in 1982 and specialized in remote e-learning and collaboration solutions.^[4] On March 13, 2006, Arel Communications was taken private by its current owners and relaunched as ooVoo.^[5][6]

In June 2007, ooVoo for Microsoft Windows launched, allowing high-quality video chat from anywhere in the world.^[7] In February 2008, video call recording and phone calling were introduced.^[8] In May 2008, ooVoo for Apple's OS X launched, creating cross-platform capabilities for video chat.^[9] In February 2009, ooVoo 2.0 launched and featured browser-based video chat rooms and video chat through a web link with no download required. An open API was also launched with version 2.0, and allowed developers to build customized applications and widgets.^[10] In May 2009, ooVoo introduced the first air-to-ground three-way video conversation. ooVoo version 2.2 was launched in July 2009, and introduced business plans geared for multiple seats and desktop sharing. New pay-as-you-go options and international phone calling were also introduced.^[11]

In January 2010, ooVoo released its app for Android mobile devices.^[12]

On 2 June 2011, ooVoo launched its social video chat service on Apple's iPhone (and other iOS devices), making its free HD Video chat service cross platforms, including: PC, Mac, Android and iPhone.^[13][14]

On July 22, 2013, ooVoo released a Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing other applications to leverage its video chat technology (current apps leveraging the ooVoo SDK: Flinch, Heystax).^[15]

On June 10, 2014, ooVoo released its app for Windows Phone devices.^[16]

On September 9, 2014, ooVoo released its Video SDK for WebRTC.^[17]

On November 25, 2017, ooVoo announced via Twitter that it will be shutting down,^[2] citing a lack of profit.^[18]

Accolades[edit]

• ooVoo won PC Magazine's Software Innovation 'Best in Show' Award at the DigitalLife Expo in September 2007.^[19]
• In March 2008, ooVoo won the 'Webware 100' award for Communication.^[20][21]
• ooVoo won PC Magazine's Best Mobile Product of 2011 in the Android Category^[22]
• ooVoo won the Tabby Award in the Social category for its Android app in August 2013.^[23]
• ooVoo was a nominee and finalist for a Mobby Award in the Business Collaboration category for its Android app in September 2015.^[24]
• ooVoo was honored in 2016 with a Mobile Excellence Award for Best Social Community.
• 2016 CES Innovation Award Honoree.

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