Galene
Galene videoconference server·galene.org
Galene is a free and open source, self-hosted WebRTC videoconferencing system consisting of a web client and server. It was originally designed for lectures, conferences and student tutorials, but is also suitable for traditional meetings. It is positioned as a self-hosted alternative to Zoom or BigBlueButton, emphasizing low resource usage and ease of hosting and administration.
What it's for
Features 20
- Activity detection
- Administrative API over HTTP for managing groups and users
- Arbitrary numbers of audio and video streams
- Automatic restarting of failed flows on ICE failure
- Background blur
- Built-in TURN server
- Choice of audio/video codecs (VP8, VP9, partial H.264, preliminary AV1)
- Full congestion control (bandwidth estimation)
- Group moderation (warn, kick, lock group)
- NACK-based loss recovery
- Password-based (plaintext or hashed) and token-based (OAuth2-style) authorisation
- Peer-to-peer file transfer (file sharing)
- PLI-based repair
- Recording to disk
- Scalable Video Coding (SVC) for VP8 and VP9
- Screen and window sharing, including multiple windows simultaneously
- Simulcast
- Support for the WHIP protocol
- Text chat
- User status indicators (e.g. raise hand)
At a glance
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Pricing
Galene is free and open source software (MIT licence); commercial pricing is not available.
Free and open source; no paid tiers mentioned. Users host it themselves, optionally via Yunohost automatic install.
No pricing tiers; self-hosted, MIT-licensed software, run on user's own server