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Fast Company’s annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact. Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways. New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine–even an entirely new economic system. Well, we may not be able to avoid video meetings entirely, but we can take some steps to make them a little less unpleasant. The Zoom apps outlined below will bring clever, thoughtful, and broadly transformative enhancements into your next virtual gatherings.

These tools will genuinely change the way you experience online meetings. Our first exceptional Zoom app is a freshly launched add-on called Warmly. Once you have it installed and configured, Warmly appears in a panel at the right side of your Zoom window. And it automatically pulls in all sorts of details about the people in your current call and presents them in an easily scannable profile.

Warmly uses email addresses from your meeting invitations to identify other attendees and then grab publicly available bio and contact info from the web.

Its creator tells me the plan is to eventually add in a paid team-level option and possibly also a premium subscription for certain advanced features. Next up is a Zoom app that completely reimagines the way you interact with Zoom.

Circles breaks you out of the typical Zoom window and puts all of your meeting participants into floating, resizable circles get it?! Having faces appear in their own individual bubbles within the more intimate environment of your desktop gives a meeting a much more personal vibe than the standard, and rather sterile, full-screen video grid.

Circles is available for MacOS , while a Windows version is in the works and accessible only via a waitlist as of now. The third and final spectacular Zoom app in our collection is all about audio, and my goodness, is it something to see—er, hear.

The software uses artificial intelligence to selectively remove background noise, echoing, and other unwanted sounds from the mix and then sends only the sound of actual humans talking to everyone on the other end. I tested Krisp in a variety of conditions, including with someone mowing the lawn right outside my home office window and even with a white noise app making all sorts of racket right into my microphone.

No matter what I threw its way, Krisp was able to separate the ruckus from the rhetoric and send a crisp, clean, clear-sounding feed that made it seem like everyone in the meeting was sitting in a professional audio booth. The second I turned off the app, all of the commotion came crashing back in.

The difference is astounding. Krisp is free for up to minutes of use per week. You can bump up to unlimited filtering for 60 bucks a year , either individually or per person with a team. The app is available for both Mac and Windows. For even more next-level productivity knowledge, check out my Android Intelligence newsletter.

Events Innovation Festival. Follow us:. By JR Raphael 4 minute Read. Your personal context genie Our first exceptional Zoom app is a freshly launched add-on called Warmly. Warmly empowers you with useful info about the other people in your Zoom meetings even if they look suspiciously like Mario.

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