The AI-Powered Zoom Alternative for Remote Teams

Zoom gives you meetings. Roam gives your team a place to work together.

Stop turning every quick question into a scheduled call. Roam helps remote teams see who’s available, talk instantly, stay connected between meetings, and keep video, messaging, scheduling, and AI-powered recaps in one virtual HQ.

  • Instead of scheduling every conversation — See who’s available, knock, and talk right now
  • Instead of filling calendars with 30-minute calls — Turn quick questions into quick conversations
  • Instead of disappearing between meetings — Give your team a shared virtual HQ where coworkers stay visible and accessible
  • Instead of stitching Zoom together with other tools — Keep video, messaging, scheduling, screen recording, and AI recaps in one place

15 min. Not a slide deck – you’ll use Roam live. Join 2,000+ teams who’ve switched.

“It’s literally groundbreaking for remote teams. Our average conversations amongst team members has gone up by 20x, but meeting time has gone down 80%. Faster coordination, better culture, more accurate coms.”
“We’ve been using Roam at Wistia for almost a year now. Can’t imagine going back to Zoom.”

Don’t replace Zoom with another Zoom

Move beyond scheduled video meetings. Work together throughout the day.

Zoom is built around scheduled video meetings. Roam is built around how remote teams communicate throughout the entire workday.

When someone has a five-minute question, the traditional meeting workflow adds unnecessary steps:

  • Find a time on everyone’s calendar
  • Send an invitation for a conversation that may only take a few minutes
  • Create or share a meeting link before anyone can talk
  • Wait for the scheduled time instead of solving the question now

Turn quick questions into quick answers

Not every conversation needs another meeting.

Traditional video conferencing turns a simple question into a process:

  • Message your coworker to ask when they’re free
  • Find a time that works for both calendars
  • Send an invite and create a meeting
  • Wait for the scheduled time to have a five-minute conversation
“Roam helps us stay connected and aligned, cutting out unnecessary 30-minute meeting blocks for just 1-2 quick questions. It’s lightweight, presence-based, and reinforces the kind of spontaneous collaboration we used to rely on in an office.”

Roam goes beyond video meetings

Work from anywhere. Feel like you’re working together.

Roam is for teams looking for something more fundamental:

  • Fewer unnecessary scheduled meetings
  • Faster answers to everyday questions
  • Visible team presence throughout the workday
  • Spontaneous conversations without meeting links
  • Remote work that feels connected instead of transactional

Don’t just change your video conferencing software. Change the way your remote team communicates.

“Instead of booked 30-60 minute calls all day we jump into for quick one on ones that take less than 5 minutes. 50% of our meetings are now under 15 minutes. It feels like a real office!”

See who’s available. Then just talk.

Bring back the remote version of “got a sec?”

In an office, you don’t schedule every question. Roam brings that same speed and spontaneity to remote work.

See your team

Know who’s in the virtual office, who’s available, who’s meeting, and who’s away.

Knock on a coworker’s office

Start an instant conversation without creating a meeting link or calendar event.

Go face to face when you need to

Move naturally from a quick conversation to video, screen sharing, whiteboarding, and collaboration.

Get back to work

Conversations last as long as they need to—not as long as the calendar says they should.

Your team shouldn’t disappear when the meeting ends

Video conferencing gives you meetings. Roam gives your team a place to work together.

Traditional video conferencing connects everyone for a call. Then the call ends—and everyone disappears again.

  • See coworkers in their offices throughout the workday
  • Notice conversations happening across the company
  • Drop by for a quick word without waiting for the next call
  • Gather in shared rooms when people need to work together
“Our team is truly global, with colleagues spread across countries and often working as the only person in their location. Until now, that made it hard to feel connected. With Roam, we can suddenly see one another ‘in the office,’ say good morning, drop by for a quick word, or just know that someone is there.”

More than a video conferencing alternative

One virtual HQ for meetings, messaging, presence, and AI.

Roam brings the communication tools remote teams use throughout the workday into one connected workspace.

Drop-in meetings

Knock on someone’s virtual office and start a conversation without scheduling it first.

Video conferencing

Run scheduled team meetings, one-on-ones, customer calls, presentations, and collaborative sessions.

Live team presence

See who’s available and what’s happening across your virtual HQ before deciding how—or whether—to reach out.

Team messaging

Keep everyday conversations and company communication in the same place your team meets.

Meeting scheduling

Schedule external conversations and give guests a familiar way to join.

AI meeting summaries

Capture meeting context, takeaways, and action items without another standalone meeting assistant.

Screen recording

Record and share async video updates without moving to another app.

All-hands and virtual events

Bring your company together for larger presentations, company meetings, and events.

From a meeting stack to one virtual HQ

Remote teams often piece together separate tools for every part of communication.

  • Video conferencing for scheduled calls
  • Messaging for everyday conversations
  • Scheduling for finding time to meet
  • Screen recording for async updates
  • Meeting notes for summaries and action items
“We have just switched to Roam which combines slack, zoom, calendly and loom in one tool… In addition to chat, video and calendar, it also gathers our entire team in a virtual office where we can see who is present, who is at the meeting and who is off.”

Zoom vs. Roam

A different way to think about video conferencing.

Use Case
Zoom
Roam
Quick question
Schedule or start a meeting
Knock and talk
Team availability
Check calendars or status
See live team presence
Internal conversation
Send or create a meeting link
Click a coworker’s office
Between meetings
The team disappears from view
Your team stays connected in a shared virtual HQ
Communication model
Meeting-first
Presence-first

Remote work that feels human again

Remote teams don’t only lose the office. They lose hundreds of tiny interactions that used to happen without anyone thinking about them.

  • The quick question at someone’s desk
  • The hallway conversation after a meeting
  • Seeing that someone is around before interrupting them
  • Pulling a teammate into a discussion while the idea is still fresh
  • Celebrating a win face to face instead of in another thread
“No more back-to-back Google Meets. No chasing messages in a sea of Slack threads. Just effortless syncs, casual drop-ins, and those spontaneous ‘got a sec?’ moments that are usually impossible to recreate remotely. The real win? Team culture.”

Make every meeting more useful with AI

Be present in the conversation. Let Roam help capture what happened.

Roam’s AI-powered meeting tools turn conversations into useful context without requiring another standalone meeting assistant.

  • Capture meeting notes without documenting every detail yourself
  • Summarize key discussions so the team can quickly recall what happened
  • Surface next steps from the conversation
  • Keep meeting intelligence inside your virtual HQ instead of another disconnected destination

Compare the cost of your meeting stack

Meet, chat, collaborate, and stay connected through one virtual office platform.

Roam Product
Functionality
Legacy Tool
Legacy Price(Monthly/User)
Virtual Office
Presence & Map
Gather / SoWork
$15 – $20
Drop-In Meetings
Instant Video
Zoom (Pro)
$13 – $16
AInbox
Team Messaging
Slack (Business+)
$15 – $18
Magic Minutes
AI Note Taker
Otter / Fireflies
$17 – $18
Lobby
Scheduling
Calendly (Teams)
$16
Magicast
Screen Recording
Loom (Business)
$12.50 – $15
Theater
Webinars
Zoom Webinars
$79 (base)
On-It
AI Agent
ChatGPT Plus / Copilot
$20
On-Air
Immersive Events
Hopin / Goldcast
$25+
Total
Standalone Stack
~$215+/mo
Roam
All-in-One
$19.50/mo

Stop scheduling every conversation

Meet instantly. Work from anywhere. Feel like you’re working together.

Give your remote team one virtual HQ for video meetings, instant conversations, messaging, presence, scheduling, screen recording, and AI.

15 min. Not a slide deck – you’ll use Roam live. Join 2,000+ teams who’ve switched.