Glue vs Meetropolis

Glue is a virtual collaboration platform for remote meetings, workshops, training, and custom virtual experiences. Teams can use customizable avatars, spatial audio, and virtual spaces, alongside sticky notes, whiteboards, presentations, brainstorming, co-creation, annotations, and note-taking. Imported 3D models can be brought in through the web interface. Team spaces and their content remain available after meetings, allowing teams to return to work and add annotations. Cloud storage holds presentations, images, videos, and 3D models. Teams can brand spaces and configure venues for meetings, training, presentations, situation rooms, and product showcases. Slack and Trello are named as integration examples. Glue lists Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows platforms, with downloads also listed for Meta Quest, Pico, HTC Vive Focus 3, Windows desktop and VR, and Mac desktop. The Free plan includes 10 team members, 10 team spaces, sessions up to 30 minutes, and 2GB of team file storage. Professional costs €50 per user per month when billed yearly or €60 per user per month when billed monthly. Glue was founded in 2017 in Helsinki and was acquired by Hyperspace in May 2024.

Meetropolis is an open-source virtual office for remote teams, set in a live 2D world with proximity-based spatial audio and video. Guest access and screen sharing are available. Phaser provides the live-world layer, while Colyseus powers real-time multi-user interaction. Teams can use the web application or self-host it with the supplied Docker Compose setup, which includes the web app, server, database, and LiveKit service. The self-host configuration uses PostgreSQL and documents SMTP email settings for invites, guest magic links, verification links, and welcome messages. Personal API tokens can control microphone, camera, screen sharing, and do-not-disturb status. Server components use AGPL-3.0-only; the web client and shared types use MIT. Tiamat UG offers a commercial license. The open-source server permits 25 concurrent users across the whole server, and the 26th user is kicked. Production self-hosters must supply a TLS terminator, configure production secrets and allowed CORS origins, and may need TURN for restrictive networks.