Zyra vs Zoom — a virtual office is not a meeting tool

Zoom and Zyra solve different problems. Zoom is a meeting tool: you schedule a call, everyone joins, and it ends. Zyra is a place: the office stays open, your team is visible in it, and a conversation starts by walking over — no invite, no link, no calendar slot.

What they have in common

• Video and audio between teammates
• Screen sharing
• Works in the browser

Where Zoom puts its emphasis

Zoom is the safest choice for anything scheduled and anything external. Client calls, webinars, all-hands with hundreds of attendees, recordings and transcripts, and the near-certainty that whoever you invite already knows how to join — that is a real advantage and it is not going away.

Where Zyra puts its emphasis

What Zoom cannot give you is the unscheduled half of an office: overhearing that a teammate is stuck, turning to ask a one-sentence question, sitting near the person you are pairing with all afternoon. Those never become calendar events, so on a meeting tool they simply stop happening. That is the gap Zyra fills — most teams end up running both.

Choose Zoom if

• Meetings with clients, candidates or anyone outside the company
• Webinars and large scheduled all-hands
• You need recordings, transcripts or a dial-in number

Choose Zyra if

• Your team's problem is distance during the day, not running meetings
• Standups and quick questions cost more in scheduling than in time
• You want people to be findable without a calendar invite
• You want to start free for up to 10 people

Common questions

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