Best Screen Sharing Tools – Comparison Table

Do you need to show to your distant teammates a set of images or a PowerPoint presentation right from your computer desktop? Do you want to train your classroom at a distance by inviting your students to watch what you are doing live on your PC?

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Screen sharing tools are a specific category of online collaboration tools that enable you to broadcast a continuous live stream of what is happening on your computer screen to individuals connected via the Internet at distant locations.

Screen sharing tools allow multiple attendees to see in real-time whatever you will be showing on your computer screen, as well as the opportunity to even take control of your mouse and keyboard to show their newly learned abilities while operating a new application residing on your machine. Obviously you can do the same with them and, with their permission, access their computer remotely and guide their learning process or troubleshooting session step by step.

Screen sharing tools generally work by allowing you, as the presenter, to create a session which is associated to a specific URL and optionally to a password number. You then send / share this URL / password combination to your selected invitees, and as soon as they log into your screen-sharing session they can start seeing in real-time what you are doing.

Feature differentiation areas among screen-sharing providers include the addition of VoIP, text chat, remote control, cross-platform support, annotation and markup and recording abilities.

Here below is a comprehensive list of all the available screen-sharing tools out there and the set of key basic characteristics that I have utilized to compare these tools among themselves:

• Max Participants Number: The number of attendees you can invite into a screen-sharing session
• Remote Control: Gives screen-sharing session attendees the ability to take control of your keyboard and mouse
• Change Presenter: Lets the current presenter hand out presentation controls to other attendees
• Host Platform: PC-Mac-Linux: if you want to be a presenter which one can you use?
• Viewer Platform: PC-Mac-Linux – what do you need to have to participate?
• Price: Monthly price of the product

To make your analysis and selection task most effective here below is also a comparison table showcasing all of the available screen-sharing tools and a full set of mini-reviews introducing each one of them.

Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/screen-share-top-25-best-screen-sharing-tools/#ixzz14W04G0np

	Users	Remote Control	Change Presenter	Host Platform	Viewer Platform	Price
GoToMeeting	15	Yes	Yes	Win	Win/Mac	$49/Month
ConferencingNow	10	Yes	Yes	Win	Win	Free
Mikogo	10	Yes	Yes	Win	Win	Free
Yuuguu	30	Yes	Yes	Win/Mac/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux	Free
ScreenStream	N/A	No	No	Win	Win/Mac/Linux	Free
SharedView	15	Yes	Yes	Win	Win	Free
Yugma Skype	10	Yes	Yes	Win/Mac/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux	Free
ShowMyPC	1-to-many	Yes	No	Win/Mac/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux	Free
SkyFex	1-to-1	Yes (5 minutes)	No	Win	Win	Free
TeamViewer	1-to-1	Yes	Yes	Win/Mac	Win/Mac	Free
Glance	100	Yes	Yes	Win/Mac	Win/Mac	$49/month
Vyew	20	No	Yes	Win/Mac/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux*	Free
Persony	25	Yes	Yes	Win	Win	$39.99
LiveLook	N/A	Yes	No	Win/Mac/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux**	N/A
eBLVD	5	Yes	Yes	Win	Win	$29.95/month
eZmeeting	4	Yes	No	Win	Win	$99/month
ShareItNow	N/A	No	No	Win	Win	Free
BeamYourScreen	5	Yes	Yes	Win	Win	$35/month
GoMeetNow	3	Yes	No	Win	Win	$15.95/month
GatherPlace	5	Yes	Yes	Win/Mac	Win/Mac	$29/month
RealVNC	1-to-1	Yes	No	Win/Mac/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux	N/A
GoToAssist	N/A	Yes	No	Win	Win	$425/month
Spreed	3 Free	Yes	Yes	Win/Mac/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux	Free for 3 people
Bosco	1-to-1	Yes	No	Win/Mac	Win/Mac	Free
Dimdim	20 Free	Developing	Yes	Win/Mac/Linux	Win/Mac/Linux	Free for 20 people
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