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Conduct secure, free, open-source video conferences on web and mobile. No account required. Integrate into your apps or host on your own servers.
Jitsi is an open-source video conferencing platform providing free, unlimited video meetings, webinars and team collaboration over WebRTC. Originally developed in Strasbourg, France and now stewarded by 8x8, Jitsi powers millions of self-hosted and Jitsi Meet-hosted conferences with no account required and no participant cap beyond hardware limits.
The platform ships as two complementary projects: Jitsi Videobridge — a scalable Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) for large group calls — and Jitsi Meet, the full web client with chat, screen sharing, raised hands, reactions, breakout rooms, live streaming to YouTube and recording to Dropbox. Everything runs in a modern browser without plugins, with mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Key benefits:
- Fully open-source under Apache 2.0 with public GitHub repositories and releases
- Self-hostable on any Linux server with Debian/Ubuntu packages and Docker images
- Unlimited participants per conference subject to SFU and bandwidth capacity
- End-to-end encryption (E2EE) on supported browsers via insertable streams
- Screen sharing, recording and live streaming to YouTube out of the box
- Breakout rooms, polls, raised hands and reactions for modern meeting workflows
- Embed via iframe API or integrate deeply through the Jitsi Meet SDK
Jitsi is developed by 8x8 with core engineering teams in France, and the hosted Jitsi Meet service runs on European and US infrastructure. Self-hosted deployments let operators keep all signalling, media and recording data entirely inside the EU under GDPR, with full control over logs, retention and sub-processors.
Trusted by universities, NGOs, governments and millions of individual users, Jitsi is the reference choice for teams that want a privacy-respecting, open-source video conferencing stack with full EU self-hosting options.
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