Petal — Click a link. You're on a call.

Everything, none of the friction

A whole call tool that fits in a link

Petal does the things you actually reach for — and skips the enterprise clutter that makes every meeting start late.

Two-second join

Send a link, they're in. No install, no sign-in, no meeting ID — even for people outside your company.

Studio-grade audio

Echo and background noise removed automatically, over stereo hi-fi Opus with error correction — so "can you hear me?" finally dies.

One-tap blur

Hide the mess behind you instantly — accelerated on your device, no app, no account.

Screen share

Show your work in a click. Crisp, high-frame-rate, and it just appears for everyone in the room.

Loom-style recording

Record your screen with your face in the corner. Out comes a link that plays inline in Slack and iMessage.

Scan-to-move handoff

Hop from your laptop to your phone — or to the Mac app — by scanning a QR. The call follows you.

Petal vs Zoom

Technically better where it counts

Zoom is built for scheduled enterprise webinars. Slack Huddles and Discord still can't take an outside guest without an account. Petal is built for the moment you just want to see someone — send a link to anyone, 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.
The first five minutes	Gone. The call is live the instant you click — no join sound, no "you're on mute."	Update prompt, audio test, "can you see my screen?"
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 — crisp 1080p over hardware H.264, 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.

Record

The meeting that didn't have to happen.

Press record. Your screen goes down with your face in a circle in the corner — and the second you stop, the link is already on your clipboard. Send it and it plays right there in the message. No download for them, no "can you resend that," no calendar invite for something that was always going to be five minutes.

Your face in a circle Plays inline in Slack Link copied on stop No bot. Ever.

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Petal for Mac

Two buttons. That's the whole app.

It sits in your menu bar as a little flower. Click it and you get exactly two choices — start a meeting or record your screen. Start a meeting and the room opens with the invite already copied to your clipboard — there's nothing to go hunt for, just paste. Hit record instead and your face lands in a circle in the corner; when you stop, that link is copied too. No timeline, no export dialog, no render bar, no project files.

Lives in the menu bar Link copies itself Native capture, runs cool Nothing to learn

Petal

Start meeting

Link copied — just paste it

Record screen

Your face lands in a circle in the corner.

Magic handoff

Start on your laptop. Finish on your phone.

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.

Laptop → Phone → Mac

Scan to hop into the room

The fastest way to see someone.