Most video call apps start with a download. Videocall doesn't. Add the extension from the Chrome Web Store, pick a username, and you're on a call — nothing else to install, update, or manage.
Open a video call app like Zoom or Microsoft Teams for the first time and, more often than not, the first thing that happens is a download — a 300 to 400MB installer that has to finish, run, and ask for permissions before you've said a single word to the person on the other end. Then it sits on your computer, updating itself in the background, showing up in your dock, waiting to be uninstalled someday.
Videocall skips all of that. It's a Chrome extension, not a desktop app. "Add to Chrome" from the Chrome Web Store is the entire installation — there's no separate installer file to run, no setup wizard, and nothing outside of Chrome itself gets put on your machine. Chrome keeps it updated automatically, the same way it updates any other extension, so you never see an update prompt or a "restart to apply changes" dialog.
To be precise: adding the extension does transfer a small file to your browser, the same way any Chrome extension does. What you're avoiding is a download in the traditional sense — an .exe or .dmg you run, a security prompt from your OS, gigabytes of disk space, or a standalone app that needs its own updates and eventually its own uninstall. If you already have Chrome open, you're one click away from your first call.
That also means there's nothing to install on the other end for a call to work either — as long as the person you're calling has the extension too, you're both already set up. No one has to "download the app first" before you can talk.
From "Add to Chrome" to your first call, in well under a minute.
One click on "Add to Chrome" from the Chrome Web Store. No installer window, no separate app — it's ready as soon as Chrome finishes adding it.
No email verification, no password. Choose a username, then add the people you want to call by their username.
Hit the call button next to a contact's name. They pick up, and you're talking — video, chat, and file sharing all in the same window.
"No download" is the practical answer. If you want the technical one — what actually happens when you click call, and why there's no plugin to install even inside the browser — see how the browser video call works under the hood. Or, if you're comparing your options first, check out our roundup of the best video call Chrome extensions, or head back to the Videocall homepage for the full feature list.
You need Chrome (which you probably already have) and the free Videocall extension, added in one click from the Chrome Web Store. There's no separate video calling app to install.
Really. Adding a Chrome extension isn't the same as downloading and running an installer. There's no .exe or .dmg file, no setup wizard, and no disk space to worry about — Chrome handles the extension for you.
Desktop Chrome, the Videocall extension, and a username. Add contacts by their username and click call — that's the whole setup.
Yes. There's no email or password to set up. You pick a username the first time you open Videocall, and that username is how people find you and add you as a contact.
Free, simple, and right in your browser. Make your next call a Videocall.
Add to Chrome — it's free