FreeConference

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Up to 100 participants, breakout rooms, browser screen sharing and genuine moderation — blocking, moderator-only chat, and a spotlight that forces a layout for everyone — cover what most teams need. The captured pages stop short of the engineering claims, though: we found no public information on adaptive bitrate, on behaviour on mobile networks, or on any documented handling of constrained connections beyond a connection test. 1 4 6 8

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Optional end-to-end encryption that a host can switch on mid-meeting, with the supported browsers and desktop platforms named, sits above a plain passcode story. But the captured pages give no public information on which features stop working when it is on, on key handling, or on what the vendor itself can technically see — and the security code, one-time access codes and room lock are all paid-subscription features, so free meetings are guarded by the link alone. 1 5 6

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Dial-in numbers are listed for thirteen countries with over fifteen free numbers, live captions can be enabled mid-meeting with the spoken language chosen, and guests join from a browser by name with no download — the parts my deaf colleague needs most are real. What I could not find anywhere: keyboard operation, screen-reader testing, any accessibility statement, or a conformance report — an accessibility page without a report is marketing, and here there isn't even the page; the join flow is also documented specifically around Chrome and Edge, and we found no public information on low-bandwidth behaviour. 1 3 7 8

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Recording is moderator-only with start, stop and pause, and retention is genuinely automatic — bulk deletion on a days, months or years schedule that takes effect within 24 hours and finishes permanent deletion within 7 days, covering recordings and shared files. The works-council side is silent: we found no public information on participant notification or a consent prompt, on where recordings are stored, on access logging, on a separate retention rule for transcriptions, or on analytics features that can be switched off. 2 9 10

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Both major calendar suites are covered — a Google Workspace add-on and an Outlook add-in that an Office 365 admin can deploy as optional or mandatory — which is more than a single integration. We found no public information on single sign-on, a documented API, room-system support, or any self-hosted or private-cloud option. 11 12

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The contracting entity is Iotum Inc. of Wilmington, Delaware, the regions that carry media and metadata are unstated on the captured pages, and we found no public information naming any subprocessor; Data Privacy Framework adherence and standard contractual clauses are documented transfer mechanisms, but they evidence nothing processed in the EU. For a buyer weighing this heavily, nothing territorial is confirmed anywhere in the capture — only that GDPR principles are applied company-wide. 2 6

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The free tier is honestly priced — free forever, no credit card, up to 100 participants — but the paid tiers named on the recording page, FREE, STARTER, PLUS and PRO, carry no figures in the captured pages and point instead to an Upgrades section. We found no public information on per-host prices, billing periods, dial-in rates or recording-storage allowances, so an annual invoice is not computable from what is public. 1 10

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