Remote control in Google Meet: six ways, compared

Updated November 2026

Short answer

Google Meet has no remote control. You can annotate a shared screen on paid Workspace plans, run a remote desktop tool next to the call, move the call to Zoom or Teams, or, if the customer is sharing your own web app, put your cursor inside it with Liveroom.

What to look for

  • Does the other person have to install something?
  • Does it work for guests from another company, in a browser?
  • What can you reach: their whole computer, or only one app?
  • Does it stay inside the Meet you already booked?

At a glance

Option They installScopeInside Meet
Liveroom Nothing Your web app only, while they share Yes, a link in the Meet chat
Meet annotations Nothing Ink on the shared image, no clicks Yes
Chrome Remote Desktop Remote desktop host Whole computer No, runs next to it
Zoom remote control Zoom desktop app Whole screen No, a Zoom call
Teams give control Teams desktop app Whole screen No, a Teams call
Co-browse tools Nothing (your site has their script) Your website No, the tool's own session

The options

1. Liveroom

From €15 per host per month

When a customer shares your app on Google Meet, your cursor appears on their screen and you can click inside your app for them. You add a script tag to your app once; whoever runs the call adds a Chrome extension. On the call, you paste your Liveroom link in the Meet chat and the customer opens your app from it.

Best for SaaS teams helping customers inside their own product. Not for fixing someone's computer, or apps you don't own. Teams is in beta.

2. Meet annotations

Paid Workspace tiers

Since April 2024 the presenter can draw on a shared screen and add co-annotators: pen, highlighter, text, sticky notes. It's ink on pixels; nobody can click.

Best for pointing at something once, with no setup.

Source: Google Workspace Updates: annotations in Google Meet, April 2024

3. Chrome Remote Desktop

Free

The common workaround in third-party guides: run it alongside the Meet call. The other person installs a host and shares a code; you control their whole desktop.

Best for IT support on someone's machine.

Source: Avica: how to give remote control in Google Meet

4. Zoom remote control

Zoom plans

Desktop app and iPad only. A Zoom employee lists the prerequisites as the "Zoom desktop client for Windows, Mac, or Linux" or an "iPad with Zoom mobile app". It controls the whole screen.

Best for teams already on Zoom whose customers use the desktop app.

Source: Zoom Community, Zoom employee answer on remote control prerequisites, May 2022

5. Microsoft Teams give control

Teams plans

A Microsoft Tech Community answer: "The feature you are expecting is not supported when any one of the parties are running Teams in a browser." For guests from another company, Microsoft's admin documentation says "both you and the other org's admin must have this policy set to On". As of December 2024, a web preview works only when the sharer uses the desktop app.

Best for colleagues inside one Microsoft tenant.

Source: Microsoft Learn: manage who can present and request control, April 2025

6. Co-browse tools

Cobrowse.io from $18 per agent per month, annual

A script in your site lets a support agent see and guide the visitor's page through the tool's own session. Another tool and its own session, built for support desks: Zendesk, Salesforce, Intercom integrations.

Best for support teams working from a helpdesk, including mobile apps.

Source: Cobrowse.io pricing

Sources, as of 8 November 2026

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