4 Useful Add-Ons to Use During Video Calling

These days all of us are utilizing video chatting apps more than ever. Everyone wants to make themselves look better during video calls, especially when it comes to business meetings. You might have read about dozens of tips and tricks to enhance your video calls. The shocking truth is that most of these tricks are not very useful when it comes to being practical.  

Though there are still some ways to improve your experience while using video chatting apps, in this article, we are going to share four best add-ons to use while in a video meeting. So without wasting any further time, let’s get started.

Meet Enhancement Suite

Google has created this add-on for its iconic video chat service Google Meet. It functions just like Chrome extensions and adds several additional features to Google Meet video calls.

For example, by adding this add-on to your Google Meet, you can access the push-to-talk feature during your video meetings. With this feature, you can press the Shift key to mute all members in a session and share your message with everyone. Isn’t that impressive?

There are other additional features that you can access by installing Meet Enhancement Suite on your Google Meet interface. These add-on features are pretty remarkable and may help you be more productive while in a meeting.  

Mmhmm

Do you wish to make your video calling more comfortable and handier? If yes, then Mmhmm is for you. You will be able to switch your background by utilizing one of its virtual backgrounds. It has several moving and static virtual environments that feel way too natural. It is far better than Zoom’s virtual background and feels more sensible.

It allows you even to modify your size, position, color, and transparency in the video frame. You can control these all things even during a video meeting just by performing mere clicks.

The best thing about this service is that you can use this tool with several different video calling apps such as Google Meet, Zoom Cloud Meetings, YouTube Live-Streaming, and more.

IDroo

Do you like to interpret your thoughts and ideas using a whiteboard? If your answer to this question is yes, then you will love this add-on service. It enables you to use a whiteboard in video meetings. No matter what video calling program you access, it works perfectly with most video calling services.  

It is far better than any built-in whiteboard tool and is extremely easy to use. It doesn’t have anything to wonder about but has a perfect whiteboard feature that you will love to use.

While explaining an idea in a meeting, you can use this virtual whiteboard simultaneously to illustrate your message effectively. This tool might be highly addictive for those who love to use a whiteboard in 

their lectures.    

You will forget about Zoom’s whiteboard feature after trying this one. It has everything you need, be it shapes, text, stamps, scribbles, mathematical formulas, etc. In the whiteboard, you can even change the background to squared paper or old paper.

Google Meet Plus

It is pretty similar to the Meet Enhancement Suite, and you can install it as a Chrome extension. It also inserts several additional features to Google Meet. It comes with a free version that you can use and install for free. With the free plan, you can add shortcut controls for push-to-talk, manage your default microphone, configure the video state while connecting meetings, connect to meetings automatically, use do-not-disturb, and switch your background.

You can get Google Meet Plus Pro for 4.39 USD/month. With the Pro version, you get dozens of more premium features such as breakout rooms, communal whiteboard, instant polls, attendant management, etc.  

Conclusion

Sometimes you may need more features in your video call, but with the default options, you can’t do everything you wish. You will need to add some useful add-ons to your video calling applications. In this article, we have learned about four amazing video chat add-ons. We hope it will help you in making the most out of your video meetings.