Supermeet vs Zoom: an honest comparison.

Meetings

Both platforms give a team what a meeting needs: HD video for up to 100 people, screen sharing, chat, hand raise, breakout rooms, host controls and cloud recording on paid plans. Supermeet runs in the browser and in apps for Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac. Its free tier differs from Zoom's: 10 meetings a month with no sign-in, up to 1 hour each, for 20 people. Supermeet meetings also have incoming-video control (per person, per quality), focus mode, data saver and a document mode that keeps shared text crisp, and a meeting can run as a secure meeting in the apps.

Zoom's advantages in meetings are real: phone dial-in, live captions and translation, an end-to-end-encrypted mode, apps for Windows and Linux, recording on the computer, and a large marketplace of integrations. Supermeet does not offer these, except live captions, which each speaker's own browser makes (Chrome, Edge or Safari), with a caption transcript to download. It also has no single sign-on, personal meeting room, recurring meetings, calendar add-ons or AI meeting summaries (see what Supermeet lacks).

Webinars and large events

On Zoom, webinars and events are separate licences sized by attendee capacity. On Supermeet, the Webinars plan covers webinars for up to 5,000 attendees, who join from a browser with no install; it is priced per month plus attendee-hours rather than by capacity tier. Webinars travel over the broadcast path — low-latency HLS through a content network — with a 2–4 second target delay. Each webinar includes a registration page with a confirmation email, email reminders and a calendar file; presenters on a stage the host switches live; Q&A with upvotes, polls and reactions; and a replay behind the same registration.

Teaching is a first-class mode rather than a webinar with a whiteboard: live classes hold up to 10,000 students on the broadcast path; whiteboard ink and slides travel as data, not video, and students can swap the teacher's video and the content; data saver and audio-only modes in the apps help on weak connections; and a raised hand can be invited to the stage as a live speaker, then sent back to the audience.

Security and leaks — the biggest difference

Zoom's protection against leaked recordings is a visible watermark that overlays the viewer's identity on shared content, plus an audio signature, available on paid plans; it deters, but an overlay can be cropped or covered and the platform cannot stop a participant's device from capturing the screen.

Supermeet's secure mode is built for content that must not leak anonymously. Secure sessions are app-only: the app attests itself — Play Integrity on Android, App Attest on iPhone, iPad and on Macs with macOS 27 or later — before it receives the per-session key, so browsers and unverified builds are refused. Screen capture is blocked where the operating system allows it (Android), detected and blacked out on iPhone and iPad, and traced by the mark everywhere; on the Mac, current macOS lets screen recorders capture the window, so there the mark does the work. The invisible forensic mark is drawn on each participant's own device, is unique to that participant and changes pattern every ten minutes; in secure meetings hosts are marked too. In tests on synthetic video, the mark survived messaging-app-quality re-encodes down to 240p and a crop. It was also still read after a simulated camera angle; tests with real classroom footage and a real camera are still to run. A leaked clip goes through a leak case: the extraction service reports a match, a probable match or no match, a person other than the one who opened the case reviews the result before anyone is named, every step is logged, and a participant can appeal through Supermeet.

Pricing

Zoom prices per licence per month, with webinars and events as additional licences, in the currency of your region. Supermeet prices meetings per host per month: Free, Pro at ₹1,100 — 20% below Zoom Pro's list price, in India and in dollars — and Business at ₹1,500. Webinars cost ₹599 a month with 1,000 attendee-hours included, then 30 paise per attendee-hour; live classes cost ₹45 per active student per month. GST is extra in India. Organizations buy on the web, paid in advance for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months, and nothing renews on its own; participants never pay in the app. Full pricing →

Data residency and compliance

Supermeet's servers — compute and database — are in Bengaluru, India. Recordings are kept in object storage whose location is not limited to India, and media is delivered worldwide through a content network. Supermeet is designed around India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act: fixed retention periods (join records 12 months; recordings follow the organization's setting, 12 months by default, with an email to the organization 48 hours before erasure), a signed certificate at the end of every erasure request, guardian consent for learners under 18 recorded by the organization from guardian identities it already holds, and no behavioural profiling, advertising or cross-session tracking of participants. Grievances go to privacy@supermeet.io; the legal pages are drafts pending counsel review. Zoom offers regional data-centre selection on paid plans and its own compliance programme; check the current options for India on zoom.com.

Developers

Both platforms offer SDKs. Zoom's Meeting SDK and Video SDK embed Zoom sessions in your app. Supermeet gives registered developers Client SDKs for Android (Kotlin), iPhone, iPad and Mac (Swift) and the web (TypeScript, with an embeddable <supermeet-session> element), and a Host SDK for Node; they are not on public package registries. Secure sessions can run inside your own registered Android and Apple apps: you set a minimum build and can revoke an app's registration. Usage is metered per participant-minute and viewer-minute, with test keys for development. Developers →

What Supermeet does not do

• Local recording, or recording to your own storage bucket (recordings are kept in Supermeet's storage)
• Single sign-on (SSO/SAML): sign-in is Google or an emailed code
• A personal meeting room, recurring meetings or calendar add-ons
• AI meeting notes or summaries, or transcripts of recordings
• Apps for Windows or Linux: the browser covers meetings, webinars and Standard classes, and secure sessions need the Android, iPhone, iPad or Mac app
• Phone dial-in (PSTN) and telephony products
• Translation, or captions beyond those each speaker's own browser makes (Chrome, Edge or Safari)
• An end-to-end-encrypted meeting mode
• Team chat, a phone system or a standalone whiteboard product
• A large third-party integration marketplace

If any of these decides your choice, Zoom is the better tool today. We publish this list so nobody discovers it after switching.

Migrating from Zoom

• Recordings: old recordings cannot be imported as Supermeet replays; keep them where they are. New meetings can be recorded to Supermeet's cloud on paid plans.
• Calendar: schedule each meeting for a time in Supermeet; there are no recurring meetings or calendar add-ons, and webinar and class registrants get a calendar (ICS) file.
• Webinars: set each webinar up again; its registration page carries the event's title, time and description, and registrants sign up on it again.
• Apps: participants join meetings, webinars and Standard classes from the browser with no install; secure sessions need the app for Android, iPhone, iPad or Mac.
• Secure content: run the sessions that matter as secure sessions; the apps tell participants, in English or Hindi, that what they see is marked to their account (secure-session notice).

For help planning a move: hello@supermeet.io.