Google Hangouts
Hangouts brings conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free.
What is Google Hangouts?
Google Hangouts is a Chrome extension that allows users to keep in touch with friends through messaging, voice and video calls, and group chats. It supports photos, videos, maps, emoji, stickers, and animated GIFs. Users can sync chats across devices and keep track of past conversations. The extension also enables notifications, positioning on the screen, and accessing conversations across devices.
Stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on
2022-10-11
Users:
6,000,000+
Rating:
3.40
(33,665)
Creation date:
2020-06-17
Risk impact:
High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
High risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
Size:
721.92K
Email:
mu*****@google.com
URLs:
Website
,Privacy policy
Stats date:
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Summary
Use Hangouts to keep in touch. Message friends, start free video or voice calls, and hop on a conversation with one person or a group.
- Include all your friends with group chats for up to 150 people.
- Say more with photos, videos, maps, emoji, stickers, and animated GIFs.Turn any conversation into a free group video call with up to 10 friends.
- Keep in touch with friends across Android, iOS, and the web, and sync chats across all your devices.
- Message friends anytime, even if they’re offline.
- Snooze your notifications so you can respond later.
- See what you chatted about in the past, including shared photos and your video call history.
- Keep a record of any conversation for just a short period of time by turning history off.
- Connect your Google Voice account to make calls, send and receive SMS, and access your voicemail.
Hangouts Chrome extension:
- Use Hangouts and get notifications as you move from tab to tab in Chrome, or even without a Chrome window open.
- Position Hangouts anywhere on your screen, even if you have more than one monitor. Keep conversations in a single window or pop out the important ones.
- View and continue your conversations across devices.
- Get notifications just once. After you see an alert, it’ll be removed on other devices.
User reviews
Why would you force us to use Google Chat but not make a Google Chat extension?
I hate google chat bring back hangouts
rip hangouts.
google chat is definitely good, hangouts never worked quite right for me, but i'm gonna miss it. and the extension
Safety
Risk impact
Google Hangouts is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Google Hangouts if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
Google Hangouts may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.
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