Glue

Overview

Glue is a virtual collaboration platform for remote meetings, workshops, training, and custom virtual experiences. It is best suited to teams that want spatial interaction alongside a workspace they can return to after a meeting. Its lasting shared spaces are a strong fit for ongoing collaborative work, though the free plan’s session and storage caps constrain frequent or file-heavy use.

Key features

Customizable avatars, spatial audio, and virtual spaces give remote sessions a sense of shared presence and support non-verbal interaction. That emphasis can serve participatory workshops and training; teams that need only a conventional meeting format may find the virtual layer unnecessary.

Sticky notes, whiteboards, presentations, brainstorming, co-creation, annotation, and note-taking support work during sessions. Teams can store presentations, images, videos, and 3D models in cloud storage and import models through the web interface. Screen sharing adds another way to present work. The more distinctive advantage is persistence: team spaces and their contents remain after meetings, giving participants a place to revisit progress and leave annotations rather than starting each session from scratch.

Teams can brand spaces and configure venues for meetings, presentations, training, situation rooms, or product showcases. Access is invite-only, which suits private team work. Slack and Trello are examples of web-based platforms that integrate with Glue. Glue describes its security as bank level and says it uses industry practices, proprietary data protection algorithms, and trusted third-party solutions.

Pricing

The free plan costs €0.00 per free and allows 10 Glue Team Members, 10 Team Spaces, 30 minutes per session, and 2GB of Team File Storage. It is a practical starting point for a small group, but the session cap can interrupt longer workshops, while storage can become restrictive for teams sharing many media files or models.

Professional costs €50.00 per month per user when billed yearly, or €60/user/month when billed monthly. It removes the listed limits on Team Spaces, session time, and Team File Storage, making it the better fit for teams that meet regularly or need room to accumulate shared content. The annual-billing price is lower, but requires choosing yearly billing.

Enterprise has custom pricing and a customized offering with branded and custom Team Spaces, custom hosting options, Single Sign on, browser-only sessions, a Service Level Agreement, Premium Onboarding, and Priority Support. Those provisions make it the plan to consider for organizations needing tailored spaces or specified service and access options.

Platforms

Glue supports Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. Its download options also include Meta Quest, Pico, HTC Vive Focus 3, Windows desktop, Windows VR, Mac desktop, and Glue Web. The PC VR setup page names HP Reverb, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets as supported. The spread of desktop, browser, mobile, and VR options gives teams flexibility in how they join, though a browser-only session is specifically an Enterprise offering.

Who it's for

Glue fits distributed teams that run workshops or training, want interaction beyond a conventional call, and benefit from keeping shared work in persistent spaces. It is less compelling for teams seeking only a simple meeting tool, and the free plan is a poor fit for long sessions or substantial file storage. A knowledge base covers setup and installation, connections, collaboration tools, team management, pricing, FAQs, and tutorials. Founded in 2017, Glue was acquired by Hyperspace in May 2024.

Pros and cons

• Persistent team spaces: content remains accessible after meetings, supporting follow-up and continued annotation.
• Broad collaboration toolkit: whiteboards, sticky notes, imported 3D models, and shared file storage suit more than presentation-led sessions.
• Free-plan constraints: 30-minute sessions and 2GB storage may quickly limit teams with longer meetings or growing media libraries.
• Professional is per user: removing time and storage limits comes at €50.00 per month per user with yearly billing, or €60/user/month monthly.

Alternatives

For open-source virtual collaboration, choose Hubs: its Community Edition is free, customizable, and self-hostable. WorkAdventure is another freemium option, with a free plan limited to 10 users but offering unlimited duration. For teams interested in an early-access free workspace, Samudaia is free during early access and requires no credit card.

Topia, Watch2Gether, Overte, Tangle, and flat.social are other options to compare. Browse the broader Virtual Meeting Room Software category to consider more tools.

Verdict

Choose Glue if your team wants spatial workshops or training and needs its shared work to persist between sessions. Its combination of virtual presence and lasting team spaces is the clearest reason to pick it; look elsewhere if your priority is a conventional meeting tool or if the free plan’s short sessions and small storage allowance will not cover your work.