The fastest way to see someone.
Start a callPetal does the things you actually reach for — and skips the enterprise clutter that makes every meeting start late.
Send a link, they're in. No install, no sign-in, no meeting ID — even for people outside your company.
Stereo hi-fi Opus with error correction, so voices stay full and clear — even when the network stumbles.
Hide the mess behind you instantly — accelerated on your device, no app, no account.
Show your work in a click. Crisp, high-frame-rate, and it just appears for everyone in the room.
Record your screen with your face in the corner. Out comes a link that plays inline in Slack and iMessage.
Hop from your laptop to your phone — or to the Mac app — by scanning a QR. The call follows you.
Zoom is built for scheduled enterprise webinars. Petal is built for the moment you just want to see someone — and it's engineered to be faster, lighter, and more resilient.
| Petal | Zoom | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting into a call | Click a link → you're in. No app, account, or meeting ID. | Download the app, meeting ID, passcode, waiting room. |
| External guests | Join in-browser, nothing to install | Often pushed to install the app or sign in |
| See who's already there | Yes — right from the lobby | No |
| Wi-Fi hiccups mid-call | Heals invisibly — perfect-negotiation + automatic ICE restart, no rejoin | Frozen video, drops, "can you hear me?", rejoin |
| Laptop heat & battery | Runs cool — hardware H.264, 720p, no heavy client | Electron-class app; fans spin up |
| Audio | Stereo hi-fi Opus + error correction | Standard compressed voice |
| Recording | Loom-style link that plays inline in Slack | Cloud recording on paid plans |
| Move between your devices | Scan a QR to hop phone ↔ laptop ↔ Mac | No |
| The vibe | Calm, editorial, gets out of the way | Enterprise utility |
Where Zoom still leads today: calls larger than a small group, scheduling/calendar, and giant webinars. Petal is racing there next with a scale-out media engine — the small, sharp, everyday call is ours now.
Hit record and Petal captures your screen with your face in the corner. Stop, and you get a link that unfurls into a playable card right inside Slack, iMessage, Notion, and email — no downloads for the person you send it to.
Need to walk and talk? Open the move sheet, scan the QR with your phone camera, and you're in the same call — instantly, with nothing to install. Or bounce it to the Petal Mac app for native 5K screen sharing.
No sign-up to try it. Start a room, send the link, and see someone in seconds.
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