Dialpad Meetings vs Galene

Dialpad Meetings is a video conferencing service for hybrid and remote teams, with live AI transcription, automated notes, and meeting summaries. Participants can join in a browser or app without downloading software or entering a PIN. Meetings can produce real-time transcripts and email recaps containing transcripts, recordings, and action items. Screen sharing, whiteboards, and file collaboration support group work. Dialpad lists web, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS availability; mobile browsers support audio and video. The Free plan costs nothing and includes core video meeting features, but free accounts record audio only. The Business plan description includes recurring conferences, international dial-ins, dial-out, and Dialpad AI. A Large Meetings add-on raises the participant limit to 1,500 and adds moderator tools. Listed integrations include Salesforce, Slack, Google Calendar, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Intercom, and Miro. Computer-connected conference media uses DTLS and SRTP encryption; PSTN-connected calls are not encrypted.

Galene is a free videoconference system with a browser client and self-hosted server, designed for lectures, conferences, and tutorials as well as meetings. Its server handles audio and video streams, multiple codecs, simulcast, and scalable video coding for VP8 and VP9. In the browser, participants can chat, share screens or windows, blur backgrounds, use activity detection and moderation, and transfer files peer to peer. The client can also broadcast audio and video from files on disk. Authentication options include usernames and passwords or token authorization, and an HTTP administrative API manages groups and users. Galene supports WHIP and lists an RTMP frontend for OBS Studio, an experimental SIP bridge, LDAP integration, and a sample third-party authorization server. Traffic is encrypted and authenticated between senders and the server, and between the server and receivers; however, media is decrypted by the server, so the system does not provide end-to-end encryption. The project estimates about 300 lecture participants per CPU core, or around 20 participants in a many-to-many meeting on one core. Its default client does not contact third-party servers or CDNs.