This FREE Meeting App Makes Zoom Look Boring! (Butter)

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Is anyone really excited about your next video conference? Are you hosting a meeting, webinar, or training and need to boost engagement? In this video, Scott Friesen shows you how Butter can transform your video meetings and bring excitement to your participants. From creating agendas and polls in advance to managing breakout rooms with ease, Butter will make your next session look and feel amazing!
00:00 Interactive meeting options
01:29 Built-in agenda
02:53 Timers for smooth meetings
03:36 Polls that are worth sharing
04:25 Better comment & question management
05:50 Add private notes
06:58 Host & facilitator tools
08:24 How to create an agenda
09:01 How to setup timers in advance
09:23 Breakout rooms that are easy to use
11:19 Managing breakout rooms like a pro
13:49 Easiest way to share video in a meeting
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[@Simpletivity]

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[@tweelininc]

Thanks Scott! I would have never discovered Butter without you!

[@RonWilliams-Hoodle]

Butter looks brilliant! Thank you for sharing it!

[@Butter_HQ]

🙏😊

[@Simpletivity]

My pleasure 😊

[@RS-wz4ef]

From one of your many subscribers: Thanks for still another outstanding video, with great practical advice, very clearly explained. I gave this a very well deserved "Like."

[@Simpletivity]

Thanks for the Like!

[@OindreelaGhosh]

Love this app! Hope a lot of people adopt it

[@Butter_HQ]

🙏 This is AWESOME to hear, Oindreela!

[@SteveNeidig]

Wow! Your overview of Butter looks great. It certainly "fixes" some of the clumsiness I experience in Zoom daily. I always enjoy your videos and your teaching style.

[@Butter_HQ]

🙏 Thanks so much, Steve!

[@Simpletivity]

Thank you very much, Steve.

[@atulsalgaonkar6222]

A long-term fan and subscriber. Will definitely get started w Butter.

[@Butter_HQ]

🙌

[@Simpletivity]

Please do!

[@googleaccount230]

Downloading right now! This is incredible!

[@amirkhan321]

U always share great information

[@KootFloris]

It all looks great, except one thing, give participants the option to seek out or join the room they want. A teacher should be able to say: make groups of five in separate rooms! And the students should be able to jump to rooms they want, and see for themselves where others are. So John can see Mindy went to the Red room and he follows, or sees that room has already 5 people, so then switches to Yellow. Or in Open Space Tech programs, participants should be able to create rooms and name them.

[@ddean3732]

Excellent presentation Scott. Great tool!

[@Simpletivity]

Thank you kindly!

[@blakepace]

Great fun, new discovery for me and my Clown Alley! Thank you, Scott!

[@Butter_HQ]

🙌

[@AmazingPhilippines1]

I have always felt Zoom was lacking so I will check this out. Thanks for this info.

[@Butter_HQ]

That's awesome to hear, thank you! 🙌 Let us know your feedback!

[@MrSuntask]

Love it!

[@Butter_HQ]

🙏😊

[@rafaeltorovip]

Awesome presentation. The utility looks very interesting. With the tim, the developers may adjust the price for the different tiers of the service so more people that are not necessary part of an organization or a big business owner can switch from Zoom or other of the video conference applications to this one. 👍

[@Butter_HQ]

That's awesome to hear, Rafael! We have a free tier too if it's not possible for you to pay for the paid version - plus we have discounts for educators and NGOs :-)

[@rafaeltorovip]

@@Butter_HQ thanks so much for replying. As a member of a nonprofit organization, I will review this application with some members. 👍. We will need to see how accesible it is for blind people.

[@gr8rlite163]

Nice!👏🏾

[@Simpletivity]

Thank you! 😊

[@paparaci1441]

Butter 😊

[@chaumettesolutions3046]

Thanks for this information. I signed up but was disappointed that it does not have a mobile interface yet. Still a good tool (and a useful one as well), but that it is limitation. I guess that makes sense given all the things you can do as the moderator… Thanks again.

[@Butter_HQ]

We've got mobile coming out in 2-3 months! Stay tuned! 😊

[@SethHeydinger]

@@Butter_HQ I have been following your app and this is the one feature I'm looking forward to!

[@4Mulator]

Thank you Scott, Butter sounds amazing! A few questions: can you record meetings or breakout rooms? Can you control someone else screen during screenshare? Is there a meeting time limit in the free version ? Can you transcribe the meeting directly from the dashboard or does Butter integrate with 3rd party services for this?

[@Butter_HQ]

Thanks for the questions! Recording: Yup you can record! Not breakout rooms yet though - on the roadmap. Screen control: Nope, and not on the roadmap for now. Meeting limit: None in the free version Transcribe: You can use 3rd party services for this - but this is definitely somethign we're looking into!

[@ArtKinkade]

Can we take notes while in the breakout rooms? THANK YOU for promoting this site.

[@Butter_HQ]

You can indeed, Arthur! And all notes are saved into your Recaps after the session, so you can access them anytime (as long as you're signed in during the session) :-)

[@v1rus_one]

Looks great! However, mobile platforms are needed to compete with current “meetings apps”. Hope to see mobile apps (iOS/Android) soon! Keep it up! 👍🏼

[@Butter_HQ]

Soon! 2-3 months then we're MOBILE! 😊

[@RotaryTeamVincent]

Due to my weak WIFI, it would be hard for me to run both Butter and YT video at same time. Can I load it to run from my hard drive? Also is it similar process to share a PowerPoint? Looks like a great teaching tool. Any downsides, compared to Zoom?

[@DemetriPanici]

Zoom really is boring 😂

[@Butter_HQ]

😉

[@norwoodventuresunlimited]

How easy is it to set up an initial meeting?

[@patrickolson7390]

Are there mobile apps for Butter? You talked about making Zoom or Microsoft Teams meetings more interesting. Is it only a separate app or can it work with the other apps?

[@user-yi7xv6vz1g]

V good

[@Simpletivity]

Thanks

[@norwoodventuresunlimited]

Interesting! With the free plan how can you record meetings (for re-purposing)? Would you have to screen record or is there another way?

[@Butter_HQ]

Thanks for the question! Recording is a paid feature (we gotta earn money somehow 😅). There's a 30 day free trial though which includes recording, so you can test it out first!

[@am1of1]

@@Butter_HQ Hi ! ... Thanks for the prompt responses 🙌 1) What could butter to make it possible for users to record onto the hard drive? 2) What'd it take for Butter to enable a web-UI version for users that does not force users to download the app, but gives them the discrete option to do so (... The opposite of the usual forced download with a discrete/ invisible/ hidden option for a web UI) 3) live online transcription and translation to multiple languages? 🙏🏻🙌☀️ Keep up the wonderful work 🙇🙌

[@Butter_HQ]

@@am1of1 great questions! 1) You can download the recording in MP4 after the recording is finished. So it's possible! 2) That's how Butter works right now: no need to download anything at all! We DO have a desktop version that is a bit more light on the CPU and have more features though - so we recommend hosts to use this :-) 3) We allow this via plugins on Google Chrome currently - we haven't built it in yet. Hope that helps!

[@norwoodventuresunlimited]

@@Butter_HQ - As a suggestion, maybe give free plan users 20 to 40 mins recording time and the other plans unlimited recording time.

[@Butter_HQ]

@@norwoodventuresunlimited We're definitely open to reviewing prices in the future, so thanks for the suggestion 😊

[@norwoodventuresunlimited]

Is there a way you can use Butter to go Live on KZbin, Facebook, etc?

[@Butter_HQ]

No, we don't support that and don't have that in our immediate plans

[@norwoodventuresunlimited]

You can create multiple breakout rooms in one meeting and assign other people to "teach" or "instruct" in those breakout rooms, correct?

[@Butter_HQ]

Yup, you can create multiple breakouts and assign co-facilitators that can manage those specific breakouts!

[@Simpletivity]

Yes, that's correct!

[@christiandevos9468]

Do the participants need to make a Butter account or can they join the meeting without logging in

[@Butter_HQ]

They can join directly in the browser without creating an account :-)

[@AI-cc4ny]

Is this a HIPAA or FERPA compliant platform?

[@Butter_HQ]

Great question! We're not HIPAA compliant (as that requires specific restrictions that are specific to the health care industry, which is not our target market). We are GDPR compliant which should cover the most important stuff in FERPA compliance!

[@Yondainc]

I notice that 200 participants are the max. Will this be changing in the future?

[@Butter_HQ]

It might! But we've built Butter foremost as a platform for collaborative sessions - so we're focusing on "smaller" many-to-many sessions first 😊

[@B9M3]

What are the time limits for the meetings? (Including the free tier.) Their website doesn't address this.

[@Butter_HQ]

Hi there! We don't have a time limit for now - even in the free tier. :-)

[@DieTabbi]

The intro with butter? Voice us totally asynchron.

[@kishaEagles]

it looks like Butter works only on desktops but not on mobiles and tablets

[@Butter_HQ]

A Butter mobile app is coming within the next 2-3 months! Big priority!

[@ShahidulIslam-xk3ig]

Actually I like mother language in Assamese