Glue vs Tangle

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.

Tangle is a virtual communications space for remote teams, centered on a 2D canvas. Teams can create rooms for meetings, planning, socializing, and other activities, with doors set open or closed. Spatial audio lets members adjust nearby conversation volume and choose how much team chatter to hear. Customizable animated avatars let people appear with cameras off; the FAQ lists more than 500 customization options. Members can collaborate with real-time stickies and link previews, including links to Figma and Google Docs, and use reactions such as raised hands and hearts or effects including confetti and an air horn. The free plan costs nothing and allows up to 50 team members per server and 25 per room, with unlimited rooms and images. It includes screen sharing, on-camera video, customizable avatars, and customer support. Tangle is available for macOS and Windows and says it is available worldwide, while in-app text is currently only in English. The company says network connections are encrypted end to end and audio and video streams use 256-bit AES encryption. Pro trials are offered, but no trial duration or paid Pro price is specified.