Digital meeting or catching up and also screen sharing is no longer unknown territory for many of us due to the corona limitations. Effective brainstorming with your team remotely while drawing and writing on a whiteboard becomes more difficult. But with Screen, not only the organizer, but every participant can actively write and draw.
Screen 3.1.6
price
Hosting is free during corona, participation is always free
Language
English
OS
Windows; macOS; Linux; iOS; Android
Website
www.screen.so 8 Score 80 
- Pros
- Very little delay in data transfer
- The overlay and whiteboard capability
- Negatives
- No way to exchange files
You sign up via your Google account or with your email address and you download the package. Its creator, Jahanzeb Sherwani, maintains that Screen would be two to five times faster than other screen sharing tools. May be, but the speed is mainly determined by the quality of the Internet connection.
Start, connect or plan
After you have started the software, you have a choice of three options. Are you starting a new meeting, joining an existing meeting or do you want to schedule a meeting? In the latter case, the app will already place the appointment in Google Calendar. Via the three dots you get to the Invitebutton where you receive a nine-digit code that you need to invite others. From then on you can just talk to each other, chat and share the screen.
Low latency
What the maker means by the speed improvement is the low latency, say delay in data exchange. Most other tools share the screen with a delay of 100 to 150 milliseconds. With this tool, the latency varies between 30 and 50 ms, which gives a more natural communication feeling. Nice is the option Overlay drawing to highlight things on the split screen. After a few seconds, these doodles will fade out on their own unless you turn on the capslock. Anyone joining the meeting can draw on the shared screen.
Free during corona
The desktop app is required to share the screen, but you can participate in meetings from any web browser. Screen is normally free to join meetings. For $ 10 a month you can host Screens and invite people yourself. However, the maker is making the package available completely free of charge during the corona pandemic.
Conclusion
Screen sharing with multiple participants who communicate with each other via voice chat runs smoothly. The way to draw on-screen together is very convenient and even whiteboarding is very easy. Also nice: Slack is supported.
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