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1 . Hyperbeam
- Price: free; Premium starting at $4.99/month
- Video categories: Browser Live
- Language: English.
- Chat: text, audio.
In this service, you are provided with a browser, the content of which is convenient to broadcast. Thus, you can watch movies from paid streaming platforms with your friends if you have only one account, or play videos from the cloud storage.
But if you think about it, the functions of the service are much wider. So, you can make a presentation or show a customer a draft of his new site, quickly uploading changes from your computer to the hosting.
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2. Kosmi
- Price: free.
- Video categories: own video, other users' broadcasts , card and computer games.
- Language: English.
- Chat: text, audio, video.
A fairly simple site, but with the function of capturing images from the screen. If you, for example, have a subscription to a streaming service, you can create a broadcast for everyone – and watch movies, series or videos from your computer with friends.
In addition, you can play poker and other games in Kosmi card games. There are also emulators of old-school NES SNES consoles, an arena for Quake III and an anime shooter Venge.io. Everything is implemented through online broadcasts, so there is no need to register and install applications or extensions.
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3. Scener
- Price: free.
- Video categories: streaming services, own video broadcasts.
- Language: English.
- Chat: text, video.
The online video sharing program works through a Chrome browser extension. Scener supports free group sessions on YouTube and Vimeo. There are also options among Western streaming services, but access to them requires appropriate subscriptions.
Private rooms can have up to 10 people at the same time (five of them have access to broadcast control), in public rooms – more than a million . You can also organize video parties and broadcast your videos to everyone.
Video chat really expands the possibilities for shared viewing. Broadcasts from the participants' cameras are placed next to the main video window, and you can see all the emotional reactions of your friends and loved ones in real time.
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4. TwoSeven
- Price:free.
- Video categories: streaming services, own video, screencast.
- Language: English.
- Chat: text, audio, video.
TwoSeven works with video streaming services and local files. Watching YouTube and Vimeo is free for all users. To access the streaming platforms, each participant will need to install the extension and log in to the appropriate account.
Through TwoSeven, you can broadcast your video files or start playing videos from almost any site. There are practically no freezes and long buffering, as in popular free services or instant messengers with video calling.
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5. Rave
- Price: free.
- Video categories: streaming services, Reddit, own video.
- Language: English.
- Chat: text, audio.
Here you can watch not only movies, but also videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Viki, Reddit, and also open your files from Google Drive or Dropbox. What if, for example, you want to remember the episodes from the wedding with your relatives or show your friends a video from your smartphone?
In addition, you can arrange a full-fledged online party – it’s not for nothing that the service is called Rave. One of the most unusual features of the platform is an artificial intelligence DJ who will create a playlist based on your preferences, create mixes or mashups of two songs.
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6. Metastream
- Price: Free.
- Video categories: streaming services.
- Language: English, Russian, and 12 more.
- Chat: text , audio, video.
Service for sharing movies and online broadcasts. It supports YouTube, Twitch, Netflix and more – you need the appropriate accounts to access it.
Metastream works through a browser extension. Sharing your video for joint viewing will not work, but you can create playlists (queues) or listen to music.
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7. Caracal
- Price: free.
- Video categories: own video, screencast.
- Language: English.
- Chat: text only.
In this service, you can also broadcast the contents of the screen, which means you can watch videos from streaming platforms or files from your computer. There is a ban only on showing porn: for this, your account will be automatically deleted.
To create broadcasts, you will need to register: specify your login, password and email. There is no need to install extensions – everything works directly. One interesting feature is that you can prevent guests from watching your broadcast if they use a VPN.
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8. Watch2Gether
- Price: free; Premium – from $2.9 per month
- Video categories: streaming services, social networks.
- Language: Russian, English and 25 others.
- Chat: text, audio, video.
Here you can organize a joint viewing of videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, as well as listen to music from SoundСloud, launch a slide presentation or open a link to a post on social networks. W2gSync technology and a browser extension allow you to watch movies from foreign streaming services, but you will need the appropriate accounts.
Playlists are supported, viewing history is saved. To create a room or enter it, it is not necessary to register – it will be enough to specify a nickname for the chat.
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9. Kast
- Price: free; Base – from $9.99 per year; Premium starting at $6.49/month
- Video categories: YouTube
- Language:English.
- Chat: text, audio, video.
One of the world's first collaborative browsing services used to be called Rabb.it, and is now available under the Kast brand. There is a free mode where you can create impressions from YouTube, see the emotions of participants through webcams and chat. Unfortunately, you can only stream any video from a computer or from an online cinema if you have a paid subscription.
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10. OnPlay
- Price: free.
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- Language: Russian, English.
- Chat: text only.
Service to share YouTube videos. It is enough to insert a link to the desired video into the search box, and actions with it will be synchronized for all users who follow the link to the room with this video. Start, pause and rewind – all at the same time.
Registration in the service is not required. It is enough to specify an arbitrary name under which your messages will appear in the chat. You can also embed the player code for shared viewing on the site.
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This material was first published in December 2020. In May 2022, we updated the text.
