Glue vs Topia

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.

Topia is a browser-based platform for interactive virtual worlds where people can explore, create, collaborate, communicate and play. Participants’ audio and video connect as they approach one another and disconnect as they move away. World owners can customize spaces and embed live streams, websites, music, apps, games and collaborative tools. Access can be restricted with passwords, account authentication, approved guest lists, scheduled opening hours or SAML SSO. Topia lists integrations including Slack, Miro, Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Sheets and Calendly, alongside an SDK, APIs, JavaScript and C# client libraries, and webhooks for custom applications and data flows. The free Demo plan has a 50-person capacity, with broadcasting and screen sharing each limited to one. PRO is billed at $4 a month per user and starts at $100 per month; enterprise pricing is custom. At capacity, arriving users wait until space becomes available. Topia recommends Chrome, Edge and Brave; Firefox and Safari support is in beta. Mobile use is audio-only and in beta, with desktop or laptop recommended.