Your meeting, right inside hangel.

App home screen

New meeting, join a meeting and My meetings on one screen; installs like an app from the browser (PWA).

Meeting code

Each meeting gets a readable code and a short link (hangel.org/oda/code); typing the code takes you to the right room.

New meeting wizard

Start now or schedule; “invitees only” or “anyone can join”. The meeting opens as a hangel event automatically.

Invite via hangel, email or phone

A notification to hangel users and an email invitation; for numbers without a hangel account, you send the invitation via WhatsApp or SMS from your own phone.

Sharing kit

Link and code, add to calendar, website embed code and AI social media texts in 12 languages.

Reminders 1 day, 1 hour and 10 minutes before

Notifications and emails to attendees, invitees and the organiser; 10 minutes before, a direct “Join”.

Room sign-in screen

Sign in with Google or an email code; the same hangel account on a separate, simple screen.

Mac and Windows app

Opens the room in its own window; share a whole screen or a single window.

Remote control with consent

When the presenter uses the desktop app, others can request control from a browser, phone or tablet; on-screen consent and “Stop control” at any time.

Join from the browser

From a phone, tablet or computer, without installing anything.

Preview before you join

Choose your camera, microphone and background before entering.

Faces stay visible while sharing

While a screen is shared, participants stay in a strip beside it.

Always-on-top participant window

While presenting, participants stay in a separate window even when you switch apps (Chrome and Edge; picture-in-picture elsewhere).

Weak-connection protection

As the connection worsens, other cameras pause first, then the speaker’s; audio stays on and video returns when it recovers.

Noise suppression

In strong mode, an open-source AI filter (RNNoise) runs on your device.

Virtual background

Blur, wallpaper-quality hangel backgrounds, a background in your organisation’s colours and logo, or your own image; the image never leaves your device.

Waiting room

If the host turns it on, people wait and are let in one by one or all at once.

“Chain of Kindness” while you wait

A small game in the waiting room or while alone in the room; skippable, sound off.

Host and co-hosts

Mute everyone, remove participants; the host can appoint co-hosts.

Secret room (end-to-end encrypted)

Audio, video and chat are decrypted only on participants’ devices; the key lives in the secret link. Recording, captions and AI notes are off in this mode.

Time and ending

Time remaining is shown; the host can end the meeting for everyone.

Chat

Profanity and harassment filter, reporting and chat muting.

Raise hand

A hand icon on the person’s tile and in the list.

Reactions

Applause, hearts and other emoji float across the screen.

Polls

Single or multiple choice; it pops up as a card, and live bars appear when the host shows them. Individual votes are never shown.

Q&A with voting

Questions are upvoted and the most popular rise to the top.

Prize draws, quizzes and exams

The same system as at events, with the people in the room: “show on stage” puts the result full screen for everyone; winners get a prize message and those who pass the exam get a certificate.

Breakout rooms

Random, manual or by interests and skills; mentors are spread across groups.

Shared notes

Everyone writes the same notes together; download as .md.

Whiteboard

Draw together; download as PNG and save to the archive.

Accessibility panel

Large text, high contrast, dyslexia font; your 30 hangel accessibility settings and profiles for 11 need groups carry into the room.

Keyboard shortcuts

Microphone, camera, hand, screen sharing and captions with a single key.

Live captions

Speech appears as text at the bottom of the screen (produced in Chrome and Edge, visible to everyone).

Caption translation in 12 languages

Everyone reads captions in their own language.

Listen in your language

Hear other-language speakers aloud in your own language; across 26 languages, with the original voice turned down.

Sign language interpreter

The interpreter stays pinned in a large tile on everyone’s screen.

Consent-based recording*

Everyone sees a recording notice and gives consent; recordings go to hangel’s Drive and are deleted after 180 days.

Live on YouTube*

Speakers in the room, viewers on YouTube; the stream key is stored only on the server.

Meeting archive

Recordings, chat, shared links, notes, poll, quiz, prize draw and exam results, whiteboards and attendance in one window.

Formal minutes and a Drive folder

Minutes with your organisation’s logo, an attendee table and annexes; download as PDF. A meeting folder is created in the connected Google account and shared only with the organiser.

AI meeting summary

When the meeting ends, a summary, decisions and action items land in the archive.

Automatic check-in and time

Check-in happens on first entry; time spent, including breakout rooms, is recorded on the server.

Automatic certificates

Those who stay long enough get their certificate and volunteer hours when the meeting ends.

The right people get in

Registered attendees, approved volunteers or invitees only.

Hybrid hall mode

Two cameras for stage and hall, speaker microphones only, “give the floor”, applause and a projector screen.

Fair use and booking

A monthly share for each organisation; if a slot is full, the nearest free time is suggested, and meetings are never cut off.

Safe mode for under-18s

Profile sharing is off and a badge is shown.

Mutual introductions

At the end, profiles are shared only if both people agree.

After the meeting

A card pointing to the app for certificates, notes and recordings; joining without the app is never blocked.

Stage and audience mode

Turn your camera on to join the stage, off to return to the audience. Listeners receive only audio and screen sharing, so the same server fits a much larger audience.

Live on the web and on your site

Stream your meeting on the web with one tap: anyone can watch without signing in on hangel.org or on your own site, and people in the room know they are live.