Glue vs Quad

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.

Quad is a virtual gathering space for groups that want to meet in a shared online room. Participants move between tables to find conversations and topics, while hosts can customize spaces and tables or choose a template. People can share interests to discover connections, and use spatial audio, games, screen and media sharing, shared web browsing, video watching, and music. Quad is available in a browser without a new software download. The site says it supports thousands of simultaneous participants, though the listed room capacity is 50 participants. Organizers can review engagement metrics and longitudinal data about connection growth. Quad presents offerings for affinity groups, education, and enterprise, including alumni groups, students, and remote or hybrid employees. The Free plan is free and includes up to 50 people, 25 tables, and four one-hour events. Pro is priced on request, with billing displayed as “$3 8 /guest”; Unlimited is priced on request, with “$149” billed.