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title: "Introducing Jitsi"
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date: 2026-06-23T00:00:00+08:00
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# Meet Jitsi: The Video Conferencing Tool You've Been Looking For

If you're tired of paying per seat for Zoom, dealing with Google Meet's ever-shifting feature set, or just want to stop handing your meeting data over to a third party — Jitsi is worth a serious look.

Jitsi is free, open-source video conferencing for web and mobile. Not "free tier with limitations" free. Actually free. The code is open, the community is active, and there's no sales team waiting to upsell you once your team hits a certain size.

## Getting Started

Getting started couldn't be simpler. Head to [meet.jit.si](https://meet.jit.si), type a room name, and you're in a meeting. No account required. No app to install. Send a link to anyone and they join straight from their browser. For quick calls and one-offs, it just works.

## Full Control Over Your Data

But Jitsi really shines for teams that want more control. Because it's open source, you can spin up your own instance on your own infrastructure — your calls, your servers, your data. No third party in the middle, no privacy policy to squint at, no surprise terms-of-service changes. The Tor Project recommends it for exactly this reason. Organizations like LangSciPress run their own Jitsi instance precisely because it's "100% privacy friendly and runs on our own servers."

## Don't Want to Self-Host?

If self-hosting sounds like more ops work than you want to take on, there's **JaaS (Jitsi as a Service)** — a managed option run by the same [Federated Computer](https://federated.computer). You get all the power of the platform without babysitting the infrastructure. And we're built it will single-sign-on, integrations with Youtube, and other big conveniences.

## Built for Developers

For developers, there's a clean SDK for embedding video calls directly into your own app or product. That's how companies like Comcast, Rocket.Chat, Symphony, and Matrix have built Jitsi into their own platforms. It's not just a video tool — it's a video building block.

## Works Everywhere

The app is available on iOS ([App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jitsi-meet/id1165103905)), Android ([Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jitsi.meet) and [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jitsi.meet/)), and works in any modern browser. SIP support even lets participants dial in from hardware phones or existing systems like Zoom if you need to bridge across tools during a transition.

## The Bottom Line

If you're a technical team that's tired of overpaying for video conferencing, wants to keep data in-house, or just values not being locked into a vendor — Jitsi gives you a credible, production-ready alternative that's been around for years and has a thriving open-source community behind it.

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Learn more at [federated.computer](https://federated.computer). Want to offer Jitsi to your customers or partners? Check out [Federated Enterprise](https://enterprise.federated.computer).
