Connect with anyone, anytime
Microsoft Teams is free for personal use—no subscription needed. Sign in to schedule and join video calls for up to 60 minutes, chat, share files and photos, and collaborate with your community.
SOLUTIONS
Communicate and collaborate smarter with Teams
- Easily create a free, 60-minute meeting to connect with friends, family, or community members. Longer meetings are available with a Microsoft 365 Personal or Microsoft 365 Family subscription.
- Plan meetings in advance and invite anyone with their email address or phone number. Share your meeting link to make it easy for participants to join from anywhere.
- Prepare and discuss in the meeting chat before a meeting begins. Then continue the conversation after the meeting in a chat or community.
- Raise your hand, use together mode to see all attendees seated together on one screen, chat, share your screen, and turn on live captions.
- Quickly join a meeting with a link from the desktop app, the web, or a mobile device. Enter without a Teams account as a guest, or sign in for a better meeting experience.
- Manage and organize your life with communities for projects, hobbies, clubs, and other groups.
- Plan online or offline community events using the community calendar. Nonmembers can also join with a Teams meeting link.
- Keep your community organized and structured with channels. Create polls and share photos, files, emojis, and GIFs using threaded conversations.
- Inviting new people to your community is simple. Send them a join link by email or SMS, or share a QR code so they can join via mobile device.
- Set community guidelines, manage access, moderate content, and remove members in the communities you own.
- Create a chat and start a free call with one tap. There’s no time limit for one-on-one calls, and group calls are free for up to 60 minutes.
- Connect with audio or video. Video can be enabled or disabled at any time.
- Teams calls alert you and can be answered wherever you use Teams.
- Initiate or respond to a chat on all your devices, even when on the go. Send and receive SMS messages from Teams when you connect your Android phone to Windows 11.
- Create a chat with someone not yet on Teams using their email address or phone number.
- Send images and important files in a chat with your Teams contacts.
- Bring a small group together in a chat to collaborate.
PRODUCTS
Use Teams for free or get more with Microsoft 365
Microsoft Teams (free)
Use Teams for free by signing in with your email address or phone number.
Microsoft 365 Personal
Enjoy extra perks, such as longer and bigger meetings in Teams, with a Microsoft 365 Personal subscription.
Microsoft 365 Family
Get accounts for up to six people and enjoy extra perks, such as longer and bigger meetings in Teams.
RESOURCES
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NEXT STEPS
Get started with Teams
Download the Teams app
Get the Teams desktop app for Windows 10 and macOS.
Create a Teams meeting
Bring your contacts easily together in a Teams meeting. Create a meeting link for everyone to join on any device, even if they don’t use Teams.
Create a chat
Invite anyone to a chat using their email address or phone number.
The web version of Teams is currently accessible by desktop only.
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