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Gather Overview

What is Gather?

Gather gives distributed teams a virtual office—a place where you can collaborate like you're in person. In addition to video calls and chat, you can stop by someone's digital desk or wave people over to join your conversation in real time. It's a way to bring back natural communication to the overly scheduled life of remote work. Working in a virtual office on Gather unlocks: - Rapid collaboration: See who’s free so you can get unblocked and move work forward. - Natural communication: Stop by someone’s desk or wave someone over to join a conversation without ever messing with meeting links. - Real-time conversations: No need to wait for a meeting or schedule a short conversation. Talk to people in the moment. - A sense of connection: See and hear the people around you. The sense of presence keeps everyone feeling connected to the team & culture.

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Gather’s mission is to remove these constraints from people’s lives. We do this by building the Metaverse, a virtual layer over the physical world where people can work, socialize, and learn.


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Year Founded
2020
HQ Location
San Francisco, CA
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72 employees on LinkedIn®
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Gather brings the best of in-person collaboration to distributed teams. Our virtual offices help break down the barriers of remote work, making it easy to share ideas and solve problems naturally in the moment.


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Recent Gather Reviews

Ramon K.
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Ramon K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"All the benefits of being in an office without any of the downsides"
I used to prefer working in person, but after using Gather Town, I think I actually prefer remote work. It recreates the office experience so well—...
Flavio G.
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Flavio G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Work in site, but remotely"
It is easy to work with anyone; it is like you were in an office, everyone can have their space and gather there or at other spaces, like meeting r...
Pablo Jesus P.
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Pablo Jesus P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The best way to work with your team"
The workspace is easy to use, and the particular way to interact with your team members with avatars is really fun and brings dynamism to interacti...
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Gather Demo - Bring your distributed team together
Create a custom virtual workspace where your team can collaborate and form connections.
Gather Demo - Talk naturally throughout the day
Stop by someone's desk, say hi in the hallway, and bring back water cooler chats. These casual conversations help build trust and strong bonds between teammates.
Gather Demo - Share insights and ideas when inspiration strikes
Don't wait for the team standup. Walk over to someone to collaborate in the moment to keep everyone aligned and work moving forward.
Gather Demo - Stay focused
Switch to "Do Not Disturb" when you need to step away or focus on a task.
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Gabriel F.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Gather?

As a full remote company that uses Gather everyday, one of the best things of it is how it changes the homeoffice reallity, turning a simple thing as walking to a coworker desk, saying hi and starting to solve some problem, something easy and fast, just like real life. Beyond that we have how simples it is to start and configure your office on the app, the Gather team is aways there to support us when needed and theres a lot of material online as well. Things just work, the meetings, notes, how you can set private spaces, integrate your agenda, record your calls, everything just works fine, as intended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

There`s not really something I dislike, but a possibility to add someone to a call inside the app without the need to create e character, just like an google meet call, would be a nice add. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

Team integration, fast communication and problem solving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gather?

Gather is very easy to use and has been a great help to our team, considering the fact that we're working remotely and miles away from each other. I appreciate how we can express our creativity in decorating our desks and the entire virtual office. What stand out to me the most is the meeting room. Now that we've included Gather in our daily tools, setting up a quick meeting is now convenient. I also love how easy it is to integrate other apps and tools with Gather. Lastly, their customer support is commendable. Whenever I need help using Gather, their team is quick to assist,responsive and considerate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

So far, I haven't experience any issues with Gather. I just hope that they provide more updates that could promote more interactive features for the teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gather provides an office experience where communication is convenient despite the distance from one another. It provides a space that helps our team to collaborate easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Laura B.
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University Professor | eCommerce, Social Media, Digital Skills & Big Data Specialist
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What do you like best about Gather?

Gather has fundamentally transformed how our team works remotely. It's more than just a virtual office – it's a space where genuine connections happen naturally, collaboration flows effortlessly, and remote work finally feels human. For any organization serious about creating an effective and engaging remote work environment, Gather is an absolute must-try.

If you're tired of endless Zoom calls and missing the organic interactions of office life, Gather provides a refreshingly different approach that actually works. It's the closest thing to having a real office in the virtual world, and in some ways, it's even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

There are a few areas that could be enhanced:

- Mobile support could be more robust

- Additional customization options for avatars would be welcome

- Some power users might want more advanced administrative controls Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

Virtual Workspace for a 100% remote team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gather?

My team uses Gather as a supportive tool for communication. We have set up a vistual office space and use it for quick calls when it's faster to approach someone by their desk or when we want to do code pairing session. The main benefits that we find are:

- transparency - we can see who is participating in spontaneous meetings and join them as we want which reduces hidden conversations

- code pairing and team performance - being able to share multiple screens at the same time and having transparency and freedom to leave the meeting whenever we want, it increases the frequency of our code pairing sessions. As a result, whole team is up to date which what other team members are working on and code reviews get released to production much faster. We reduced our code reviews times from 2+ days to under 1 since using it for the past couple of months.

- last but not least, my favourite - transparency and virtual office increase team's collaboration and opportunity for small talk which resulted in must stronger team's foundations like trust and reliability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

When using Gather symultaneously with few other heavy software like few instances of visual studio and docker, it can be bit laggy occasionally and loose access to camera. Also switching between zoom and gather can cause headphones to not connect correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

It increases team collaboration and makes code programming easier and more accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gather?

En nuestro equipo de 6 personas llevamos un tiempo utilizando Gather y, con la versión gratuita, nos va de maravilla. Aunque la empresa es mucho más grande y algo tradicional en la adopción de nuevas herramientas, creemos que Gather tiene un gran potencial y no descartamos proponerlo en el futuro.

Estamos encantados. Gather nos permite reunirnos de forma ágil y natural, sin depender tanto de los chats o reuniones programadas. Si necesito algo, simplemente me acerco a la “mesa” de mi compañero y le formulo la cuestión, como si estuviéramos en una oficina física. Las reuniones son fluidas, y la plataforma ofrece funcionalidades muy interesantes, como juegos para fomentar el team building, entre muchas otras opciones.

Gather ha hecho que la colaboración en remoto sea natural, dinámica y, sobre todo, divertida. Totalmente recomendable para equipos que buscan mejorar su flujo de trabajo y la interacción entre compañeros. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

Se echan en falta funcionalidades básicas como la búsqueda en el historial, la opción de fijar chats importantes o la posibilidad de responder directamente sobre un mensaje concreto. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

No hay funcionalidades básicas como la búsqueda en el historial, la opción de fijar chats importantes o la posibilidad de responder directamente sobre un mensaje concreto. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leonardo E.
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What do you like best about Gather?

Our team has been using Gather for over 2 years as our virtual office, we have our meeting rooms with everyone, each person has their own desk and common spaces. We have managed to reduce the distance that remote work causes by simulating a physical environment within it. We make video calls with recordings of important matters and since our team is small, we don't pay anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

So far, the only thing that bothers is the noise reducer that uses a lot of processing and sometimes crashes the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

The majority of the team is remote, and with Gather, we can reduce the problems of distance in daily life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gather?

Gather helped me and my team to easily colloborate and communicate with each other since we are in a remote based company. It was easy to setup. We use Gather everyday, not only for work but also when we need to have fun and play games with each other. It also has this Google Meet integration that easily connects my Google Meetings so that I would be reminded of my meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

There are a lot of display bugs, sometimes invisible walls or pass through walls that for me personally is funny since we get to pass through another room without going around. There is no record a meeting function which would be nice if added since we don't need to go to Google Meet to record a meeting instead we can directly record a meeting in a room in our space or when collaborating with a certain team member/s Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ease of communicating with my team members, I do not need to go to a meeting link if I wanted to talk with them I would just go to their space and I can speak to them directly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pablo L.
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Coordenador de Planejamento e Desenvolvimento
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Gather?

Nossa equipe de desenvolvimento utiliza o Gather diariamente para realizarmos nossas dailyes de projetos. A aderência da equipe foi instantânea, uma vez que todos ficaram entusiasmados em criar seus avatares e personalizarem seus ambientes de trabalho no ambiente virtual. Acredito que o Gather proporciona à nossa equipe, que é 100% remota, uma sensação de pertencimento. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

O único ponto de melhoria seria em questão de termos a possibilidade de mais personalização nos avatares, mas isso não é algo que atrapalha em nada a utilização da plataformna. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

Engajamento, participação, aderência às reuniões. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Federico P.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Gather?

With just a quick view I can see the status of communications between all team members Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

Screen sharing floating components need some improvements (although not an issue to be honest) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gather helps me in many areas of the day to day work.

One of the most important areas that helps me solving is the context swiching in communications. I can easily poke team members, jump from one desk to another, setup ad-hoc group calls in the most fastest way I used in a IM tool. The tool is super versatile and agile.

Also I can see in one quick view how the team is collaborating together.

Additionally, when we are facing some burnout we can go to a playroom and do some team bonding stuffs like go karts. Great tool for welcoming new members.

And lastly, I'm very happy with Gather's team support. When we started using it they didn't have annotations like Zoom does, we requested the feature and they delivered it (one of the must have features). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meerali N.
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What do you like best about Gather?

It is amazing virtual office! It provides customized setup, be it diwali decoration, your personal desk setup or Meeting/Seminar hall, it gives the best experience and a feel of in-office! Its super easy to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gather?

The mobile browser view can be improved, it hangs a bit after 30 minutes or so! Else, the desktop view and experience is the best! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gather solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is the best and unique solution for Remote teams to get a feel of office workspace!

We can share screen, audio, video and so many such amazing features are there!

Personalized avatar, desk, name, decorations, cabins, halls, I like it all!

A chat feature is also there to talk with an indivial person or the whole office! Everything is just amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.