Jitsi
jitsi/jitsi-meet
An open-source alternative to Skype and Zoom.
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application. (from the repository)
- Stars
- 30,104
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-19
- Written in
- TypeScript
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 9 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
stable/jitsi-meet_11248, 44 days ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
99% closed
82 open · 6,963 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+50 in 9 days
30,104 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
PermissiveApache-2.0
Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.
This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.
Run it yourself
Jitsi’s README does not show a docker run, docker compose up or helm install in a code block, so this page will not guess one. It may be a desktop app, a library, or documented on its website.
Jitsi against the other open-source options
Every project offered against Skype and Zoom, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jitsi (this page) | 30,104 | Active | Permissive | ○ | TypeScript |
 BigBlueButton | 9,247 | Active | Weak copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
 MiroTalk P2P | 4,799 | Active | Network copyleft | Compose | JavaScript |
| Mirotalk | 3,130 | Active | Network copyleft | Compose | JavaScript |
 Briefing | 1,633 | Slowing | Network copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with Skype and Zoom and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data