


Just follow the steps below to get started. Zoom isn’t available on the Mac App Store, but you can download the desktop client from their website. Even the free Zoom plan offers up to 100 participants for 40 minutes. There are a whole variety of video chat and video conference services nowadays on the Mac and other platforms, from Group FaceTime, Skype, Google Hangouts, and more, but Zoom is perhaps the most prominent for many institutions, businesses, schools, and medical offices. If you’re looking to checkout Zoom on the Mac, read on to learn how to host meetings, and to join them too.

If you’re already familiar with the process of joining and hosting Zoom meetings on iPhone and iPad, you’ll find the structure for the Mac is quite similar.
