Butter is the most engaging and collaborative alternative to Zoom. Because there’s no such thing as “Butter fatigue.”
But we’re not here to 💩 on Zoom.
Everyone uses Zoom. It was a simple way for us to connect during the early days of the pandemic. It became the verb for calling each other online.
But Zoom fatigue is real. Zoom was built for convenient video calls, not for hosting interactive workshops, collaborating on big ideas, or fostering engagement.
So our goal isn’t to convince you that Butter = good and Zoom = bad. We’re just going to share when you might want to use one versus the other.
We created Butter because our founders were struggling to run engaging online workshops with Zoom.
1. Amp up the energy
Say goodbye to that grid of tired faces. Butter keeps participants engaged with emoji reactions, a hand-raise queue, polls, flashcards, and breakouts.
2. Stop juggling so many tools
Keep everyone focused on one window and one outcome. Work on Miro, MURAL, Google Docs, and more—all inside the Butter window. No extra add-ons, tabs, tools, or links required.
3. Structure your sessions. Get better outcomes.
Reduce the stress of facilitating a session. Create the perfect flow with a time-boxed agenda, pre-loaded tools, and a reusable team library. Then, access convenient recaps after your session.
We created Butter because our founders were struggling to run engaging online workshops with Zoom.
40 minutes
60 minutes
(unlimited for one-on-ones)
8 plans to decide between
One simple, $25 per-member plan
Hosting sessions
One Zoom link
Unlimited reusable rooms
Team workspace
Nope
Share rooms with your team, and save agendas and tools as Templates
Recordings
Limited storage
Unlimited cloud storage
Business phone lines
Included
What in the world is a phone line?
Mobile app
Yes
Yup, but it’s yellow!
A plain white screen
A customizable waiting room with GIFs and music
Tiny (and nobody uses them)
Big, bold, and impactful!
Third-party app required
*air horn sound*
Raise a little hand that everyone ignores
An ordered, hands-up queue that everyone can see
Included
Not included
It’s just kinda there
Popping off with GIFs, reactions, and threads
Someone screenshares slides 🥱
Use interactive flashcards, present a PDF directly, or share your screen (if you insist)
Speaker or gallery view
Gallery view, spotlight mode, panel mode
Included
Included, but like, way better (check them out)
Included
Okay, also included. But at least we made the buttons bright.
Polls
Simple multiple-choice polls
Built-in multiple-choice and open-ended polls with images, GIFs, and word clouds
App required
Built in to the Butter window
Google Docs
One person screenshares and everyone else watches
Work together in the same Docs or Slides file
Play videos and music
Clumsily screenshare your video and audio
Play music or watch YouTube and Vimeo directly in Butter together
Taking notes
Third-party app required
Take collaborative or personal notes
Presenting
Someone screenshares their slides 🥱
Use interactive flashcards, share a PDF, spotlight participants, or share your screen (if you insist)
Nope
Browse web pages together
Agenda planner
Third-party app required
Built-in session planner, including an agenda and toolbox
A bunch of messy links on your notepad
Pre-load all your tools and links
Co-facilitators
You’re on your own
Prepare and run your sessions with your team
Nope
Access recordings, chat logs, poll results, and more
Up to 20 clones per month
Business, Technology
1 User
3 months
3 months
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Up to 20 clones per month
Business, Technology
1 User
3 months
3 months
-
Up to 20 clones per month
Business, Technology
1 User
3 months
3 months
-
These awesome folks swapped Zoom for Butter.
Why should I use Butter?
Other video conferencing tools aren’t built for collaboration. They’re built for conversations.
Butter, on the other hand, is built for planning, running, and recapping engaging and interactive collaborative sessions. We focus on empowering facilitators, moderators, and hosts by giving them all the tools they need to engage participants in one place.
You can set up your agenda and tools in advance, create tons of engagement during your session, and then wrap things up with ease. Teams also have one workspace to collaborate, share templates, and access recaps for all their sessions.
What types of sessions is Butter best for?
Butter isn’t built for those could-have-been-an-email meetings. You know the ones! 🥱
Butter is a tool for facilitating highly-collaborative sessions like workshops, training sessions, bootcamps, courses, events, interactive webinars, social events, or any other session where you need to keep people energized and productive.
Of course, you can use Butter for everyday meetings too. But it’s so much more than a meeting tool.
Is Butter free?
Pretty much! Our free Basic plan lets you run group sessions for up to 60 minutes with as many as 100 participants. One-on-one sessions are unlimited and free.
Our Business plan comes with no time limits, unlimited rooms, unlimited cloud recordings, and a collaborative team workspace where you can share rooms and tools.
Read all about pricing here.
How many participants can join a Butter session?
Up to 100 participants can join a session on the Basic and Business plans.
If you need to host more people, you can upgrade up to 200 participants per session with the Large Sessions add-on (the Business plan is required to purchase add-ons).
Read more about add-ons here.
Do you need an account to join a Butter session?
Nope! Participants can join by clicking the shared invite link and accessing directly through their browser.
They’ll get the added bonus of accessing Recaps for sessions they’ve joined when they sign up though (for free!). 😉
Do you have a desktop or mobile app?
Yes, we do. You can download the Butter desktop app to run or join sessions. We also have the Butter mobile app for participants on the go!
Do you host your own video?
Video meetings on Butter are hosted by Daily.co
Is Butter GDPR compliant?
As a Danish company, we care a lot about privacy and we’re continuously striving to fulfill the GDPR. You can read all about our compliance efforts, privacy, and security in our GDPR Policy.
