Zyra vs Gather — which virtual office fits your team?

Gather and Zyra are both virtual offices: a persistent 2D space your team moves around in, where a conversation opens as two avatars come near each other. Gather is the older and better known of the two, with a deep map editor and a large events community. Zyra is built around one team's ordinary working day.

What they have in common

• A space that stays open, not a link you join and leave
• Proximity-based voice and video — you hear people as you approach them
• Movable avatars on a shared 2D map
• Text chat and screen sharing in the same place
• Runs in the browser, nothing to install

Where Gather puts its emphasis

Gather leans wide. Its tile-based map editor lets you build detailed custom worlds, and it is used as much for conferences, meetups and game-like events as for offices. If you want to design a space in fine detail, or run a large event inside it, that breadth is the reason to pick it.

Where Zyra puts its emphasis

Zyra leans narrow on purpose. The space builder starts from rooms a working team actually needs — standups, focus zones, meeting rooms — so a new workspace is usable in minutes rather than designed from scratch. The interface ships in English and Thai, which matters if your team works across both.

Choose Gather if

• You want to design a highly custom space, tile by tile
• You run conferences or public events inside the space
• You need the largest existing community and template library

Choose Zyra if

• You want a working office your team opens every morning, not a world to build
• You want a workspace usable on day one, without a design phase
• Your team works in Thai as well as English
• You want to start free for up to 10 people and add Pro later

Common questions

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