Vyew is a webinar services provider that lets you connect with worldwide audiences with just a few mouse clicks and a quick download. You can show Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and communicate using audio, video or both. Do this with confidence that the information you display is visible only to your guests. With Vyew, you can do it all for a low monthly price. Competing webinar service providers cost many times more but come with superior usability and better options for attendee payment and mobile webinar access.

Some of the best features in Vyew – the ones that make it unique in the webinar services market – are optional plugins. We were delighted to find that you can use a graphing calculator plugin, for example. You can also add an equation editor to check your presentation for you, an equation calculator to make sure your answers are correct, an MP3 player or a calendar. A handy online video portal (no download required) lets you search YouTube for videos relevant to your conference or class. These features are enhanced by the fact that your guests don't need to download anything to participate. Once your attendees are on board, you can control their browsers to follow along with your presentation in Sync Mode. Together, these tools make Vyew the best educational webinar services provider we reviewed.

Vyew falls short compared to other webinar services in that it doesn't require registration and doesn't allow users to create profiles. This could make classroom control a challenge. Vyew also lacks an application for mobile devices such as smartphones or tablet computers, unlike its top competitors. Furthermore, you can't charge attendees on a pay-per-view basis for attending your webinars with Vyew. This might be a problem if you are hoping to use the tool for paid tutoring or continuing-education training.

You may also run into trouble with Vyew based on its lack of specificity for large-scale events. You can only host 150 attendees at a time and won't have the benefit of post-session statistical reporting. Furthermore, you can only use MP3s that are hosted on your server.

Vyew lacks some of the latest features but is a fully capable application for online seminar services. You can use it to send invitations and reminders to your guests before every meeting. Include a password in those messages to enhance the security of your webinar. Then, while in session, you can conduct audience polls, chat privately with any participant and record your meeting for easy access anytime in the future.
Vyew is among the least expensive products we reviewed, so we were surprised to find that it offers all the audio and video options for which we tested. You can share your screen with your guests or you can let them share their screens with you. You also have access to VoIP and webcams. In our tests, video feeds were choppy and garbled in some instances but clear and perfectly synchronized in others.

Our test results were similarly mixed when we examined Vyew's ease of use. We were able to start meetings on the fly, for example, but could never start a prescheduled meeting despite watching tutorial videos, perusing the free online manual or searching the FAQs page. This fact makes the product hard to recommend for anyone without extensive computer experience and troubleshooting knowledge.