Google Meet is a video-conferencing service developed by Google.[citation needed] It is one of two apps that constitute the new version of Google Hangouts, the other being Google Chat. In October 2019 Google planned to begin retiring the classic version of Hangouts.[citation needed]
Initially released as a commercial service, Google Meet was released to free users as well in April 2020,[1] causing speculation about whether the consumer version of Google Meet shall accelerate the deprecation of Google Hangouts.