Video call your entire group!

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Houseparty for Mac is a video conferencing app with a focus on digital socialization. The face-to-face social media platform is available on macOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome, and is gaining popularity across the world. It allows users to drop-in on ongoing video chats, spend quality time with multiple friends, and indulge in puzzles and games. The simple video chatting software is perfect for people wishing to connect with their friends and loved ones!

Get together and play

Throw a virtual game night for all your friends!

Houseparty is an instant video messenger that lets users video chat with up to eight people, together. To keep things fun and exciting, users can connect with their friends to play games like Trivia, Pictionary, and Heads Up!

The app’s simplicity is its biggest selling point. Instead of video-calling a person, you only need to open the app and connect with anyone in your phonebook. The only catch is that they must have an account on Houseparty!

From the moment you open the app, you have an option to either drop in on an ongoing video call or start a group video chat! Since your friends also sync their contacts, you also get an option to connect with friends of friends using the Houseparty app.

Simple and familiar interface

Houseparty for Mac has a simple interface that may seem familiar to people that have used AOL. Once you open the app, you get to see the number of friends using the app in real-time or running it in the background.

You can ‘wave’ to them to grab their attention or tap on the phone icon to start a video chat. Houseparty also gives you an option to add your friends to a chat or share a unique code with them. Apart from your contact list, you can even add friends via Facebook and Snapchat.

Option to hide notifications

The moment you open the Houseparty app, it sends an instant notification to all your friends informing them that you’re ready to connect! In case you don’t wish to broadcast your appearance, you can easily opt-out of sending or receiving notifications.

Apart from these notifications, the app informs users when someone from outside their contact list joins in on a video conference. At that moment, users have an option to either leave or continue the video call.

Offers one-on-one disappearing chat

For users looking for a little privacy, there’s an option to ‘lock’ a chat room so that no one else jumps into the ongoing call! The app also gives you an option to send pictures and text messages from a side window. These messages disappear within 24 hours!

Where can you run this program?

After you’ve downloaded the Houseparty app for your macOS, you only need to sign up to start using it. You can give access to your contact list or integrate friends from your Facebook or Snapchat account. As soon as you’re up and running, you can connect with almost all your friends using the app.

Is there a better alternative?

Multiple apps like WhatsApp, Hangouts, Skype, and Zoom offer video calling. However, there’s no alternative to Houseparty! The latter turns video calling into a breeze and provides multiple users an option to interact and play games from one single window.

Our take

There’s nothing formal about the Houseparty app, which makes it perfect for video calling friends. It’s the new social networking platform that everyone is raving about! Therefore, if you aren’t already using Houseparty, you’re probably missing out.

Should you download it?

If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with your family members and friends, you should download this app. It’s easy-to-use and provides an option to play games, connect with numerous people, and create private chat windows from the comfort of your home.

  • Pros

    • Group video calling app
    • Option to play games with friends
    • Simple and clean interface
  • Cons

    • Only eight people can join a video conference

Specifications

Platform
  • Mac
  • Windows
Language
English
License

Free

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Developer
Houseparty

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