Mikogo Review Summary:
Mikogo is a decent desktop sharing tool having enough features to assist both hosts and participants in conducting their perfect online meeting or web conference. It is extremely simple and easy-to-use. It is used for a range of personal and professional usage e.g. conducting online meetings, web presentations, product demonstrations, group collaboration etc. Share and organize discussions with up to 25 participants simultaneously. It is a free screen-sharing application with white-boarding abilities. However, it is not suitable for enterprise usage for which we recommend other tools like GoToMeeting, Adobe, Webex etc.
Pros:
– Absolutely free to use.
– Runs on both Windows and Mac
– Encrypted web conferences, so all of the information you share is protected. Generates unique session ID required for joining a session.
– Doesn’t have any ads, unlike many other free tools.
– High quality screen sharing experience.
Cons:
– Mac users can’t share specific windows or apps.
– Limited up to small group conferences, as doesn’t support features of a high end application.
– Allows file transfer, but doesn’t specify an easy way where to put on the recipient’s end.
– Suitable only for small meetings.
Mikogo Online Ratings:
| Category | Score (3/5) | Why |
| Overall Rating: |  |
A decent desktop sharing tool having enough features for hosts to conduct their online meetings. |
| Usability: |  |
Has a pleasant and user-friendly interface. |
| Audio Quality: |  |
No audio support. |
| Video Quality: |  |
No video support. |
| Collaboration features: |  |
No collaboration features. |
| Presentation features: |  |
Lacks presentation features. |
| Mobile features: |  |
No native mobile applications. |
What We Like About Mikogo:
– It’s a light-weight application and doesn’t require an in-house installation.
– It’s a perfect solution for small and impromptu meetings. Supports up to 25 participants with no installation required from them.
– Allows users to send documents upto 200 MB, which is one of the biggest file-size handled by any other tool.
– Doesn’t have any advertisements, although being free.
– It is easy to learn and has a pleasant, non-intrusive user interface.
What We Don’t Like About Mikogo:
– Limited features: Being a free version, meetings are limited to 10 participants with no audio or video support.
– Lacks collaboration with products like Outlook that users might want to tie-into. Compared to it, other tools like GoToMeeting, Webex etc. provide great collaboration tools. Also, meeting invitation emails has to be sent manually.
– Some of Mikogo’s features are not available for Mac.
– It is not completely browser-based, so could cause problems for users having firewall restrictions.
– On start of a meeting, only 15 minutes for the first participant to join else the session is terminated.
– It gives an unclear indication that host’s screen is shared. Although a session in progress is shown in system tray, but it might get hidden by Windows. This might lead to accidental closing of the screen.
Mikogo Features:
| Pricing: | Free to use. |
| Meeting capacity: | 25 attendees. |
| Desktop Sharing: | Yes, gives option to choose which applications to share. |
| Desktop Recording: | No |
| VOIP: | No |
| Control Granting: | Yes. Users can share their desktops with the meeting host, also giving the host control over their mouse and keyboard. |
| Video Conferencing: | No |
| Private Chat: | No |
| Annotation Tools: | Yes. Includes white-boarding abilities. |
Mikogo Review Summary:
Overall Rating: 
(3/5 stars)
Mikogo is a good alternative for those having a need to do web-conferencing or screen sharing with small groups but does not need the features of a high end application. It fulfills basic requirements of users at no cost or advertising. It has robust functionality and an impressive screen-sharing tool available today. Although not suited for enterprise requirements, it does its work at the end of the day.
Additional Resources:
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