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# Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences
Jitsi Meet is an open-source (Apache) WebRTC JavaScript application that uses [Jitsi Videobridge](https://jitsi.org/videobridge) to provide high quality, scalable video conferences. You can see [Jitsi Meet in action](http://youtu.be/7vFUVClsNh0) here at the session #482 of the VoIP Users Conference.
Jitsi Meet is an open-source (Apache) WebRTC JavaScript application that uses [Jitsi Videobridge](https://jitsi.org/videobridge) to provide high quality, [secure](#security) and scalable video conferences. You can see [Jitsi Meet in action](http://youtu.be/7vFUVClsNh0) here at the session #482 of the VoIP Users Conference.
You can also try it out yourself at https://meet.jit.si .
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Jitsi Meet provides a very flexible way of embedding it in external applications by using the [Jitsi Meet API](doc/api.md).
## Security
WebRTC today does not provide a way of conducting multiparty conversations with
end-to-end encryption. As a matter of fact, unless you consistently vocally
compare DTLS fingerprints with your peers, the same goes for one-to-one calls.
As a result when using a Jitsi Meet instance, your stream is encrypted on the
network but decrypted on the machine that hosts the bridge.
The Jitsi Meet architecture allows you to deploy your own version, including
all server components, and in that case your security guarantees will be roughly
equivalent to these of a direct one-to-one WebRTC call. This is what's unique to
Jitsi Meet in terms of security.
The [meet.jit.si](https://meet.jit.si) service is maintained by the Jitsi team
at [Atlassian](https://atlassian.com).
## Mobile app
Jitsi Meet is also available as a React Native app for Android and iOS.
Instructions on how to build it can be found [here](doc/mobile.md).