Softphones
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A softphone is a software program for making telephone calls over the Internet using a general purpose computer, tablet or smartphone, rather than using dedicated hardware. Often a softphone is designed to behave like a traditional telephone, sometimes appearing as an image of a phone with a display panel and buttons with which the user can interact. A softphone is usually used with a headset connected to the sound card of the PC, or as an installed app on your phone. See also: Smartphone
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Most Popular Softphones
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List of Softphones
| Softphone Name | Android Compatible | iOS Compatible | Windows Compatible | MAC Compatible | Linux Compatible | Other Support | SMS Support | SIP TLS Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acrobits | X | X | X | X | ||||
| AntiSIP (Mobile) | X | X | X | |||||
| Blink (Desktop) | X | X | X | |||||
| Bria Mobile | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Bria Solo | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Bria Teams | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Dialer+ | X | X | X | |||||
| Ekiga | X | X | X | |||||
| FgVoIP | Blackberry | |||||||
| Fring | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Jami | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Jitsi | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Kiax | X | X | X | |||||
| Linphone | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| NetDial Sip Phone | X | X | X | |||||
| MicroSIP | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| MizuPhone | X | X | X | |||||
| MizuDroid | X | X | X | |||||
| NinjaLite | X | |||||||
| PhonerLite | X | X | X | |||||
| PortGo | X | |||||||
| QuteCom | X | X | X | |||||
| SessionTalk | X | X | X | |||||
| SIP Droid | X | |||||||
| SIPnetic | X | |||||||
| SJPhone | X | Windows Mobile | ||||||
| Softphone.Pro | X | X | X | |||||
| Taki | Blackberry | |||||||
| Telephone | X | |||||||
| tSIP | X | X | X | |||||
| X-Lite | X | X | X | |||||
| ZoiPer | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| ZoiPer Communicator | X | X | X |
Acrobits
Product: Acrobits
Company: Acrobits
OS: IOS, Android
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: Acrobits is a mobile software development company with a focus on SIP Clients for mobile devices; their SIP client, Acrobits Softphone, is the leading app of it's type on the iTunes App Store.
AntiSIP (Mobile)
Product: AntiSIP
Company: AntiSIP
OS: Android
Overview: AntiSIP is a mobile software SIP, WebRTC, Audio, Video on all platforms!
Blink (Desktop)
Product: Blink
Company: Blink
OS: MAC & Linux
Overview: Blink is a softphone available for MAC and Linux users, offering a variety of features free to use like the possibility to integrate System Address Book, Answering machine, Call: recording, transfer, waiting, Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) among many other options.
For a list of all the features available with Blink, consult the following link
Bria Mobile
Product: Bria Mobile
Company: CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux (Ubuntu), iOS, Android
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: Bria 5 is a carrier-grade next generation softphone application that enables you to manage your communications easily and efficiently – all from your computer desktop. Replacing or complementing your hard phone, the Bria softphone allows you to make VoIP and Video calls over IP, see when your contacts are available, send Instant Messages and transfer files with ease and efficiency.
Bria Mobile for Andoid and IOS is a highly secure, standards-based mobile VoIP softphone that works over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks.
Using the device’s existing contact list, Bria Android Edition facilitates easy and effective communication management with an intuitive interface. Deskphone-class calling functionality includes the ability to swap between two calls, merge calls and perform attended and unattended transfers.
Bria Solo
Product: Bria Solo
Company: CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: Bria Solo provides desktop and mobile softphone applications that facilitate best-in-class calling and robust call control features.
Whether used for inbound or outbound calls, Bria makes it easy to integrate contacts from various sources, streamline communications, and manage calls from one easy-to-use interface.
Bria Teams
Product: Bria Teams
Company: CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: Team Communication made Easy Bria Teams helps you regain productivity by streamlining all team communications into one application across your devices. With Bria's provisioning, it's easy to get your team talking.
It offers a softphone that helps you gain productivity by streamlining all team communications into one application. It has all the tools you need in one interface, across your devices and can be managed by one simple dashboard.
Dialer+
Product: cd26
Company: cd26
OS: IOS
Overview: Dialer+ is a SIP-based softphone for iPhone , iPod touch and iPad
Standard Phone Features
- Fast Contact Search – Use phone pad to find contacts by names, initials or any part of the numbers.
• iOS 4.0+ Background Support • Supports GSM calls when the network is unavailable or slowly • Multiple Account Support • Auto switch to best service provider when use multiple account • Pre-configured VoIP providers list • Call display • Speakerphone, Mute and Hold • Call history • Contact List and Contact Favorites - leveraging the iPhone Contacts • Ringtones and contact avatars • Multiple incoming Call Support - swap between two active calls; merge and split calls • Audio codecs include G.711,G.722, iLBC ,Speex and GSM, Make an in app purchase to add G.729 for great performance over 3G networks • Support for RFC 2833 DTMF • VPN Support • uPNP Support • iPhone 4 Retina Display Support
Ekiga
Product: Ekiga
Company: Ekiga
OS: Windows, Linux
Overview:Ekiga is a software phone and video conferencing application. It allows you to hear and see your friends for free using your computer and Internet. You can also chat with them and see if they are online or not. It works on GNU/Linux and Windows.
More specifically, Ekiga is a VoIP, IP Telephony, and Video Conferencing application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with SIP or H.323 compatible hardware and software.
It supports many audio and video codecs and all modern VoIP features for both SIP and H.323. Ekiga is the first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP, as well as audio and video. Ekiga was formerly known as GnomeMeeting.
FgVoIP
Product: FgVoIP
Company: FG Microtec
OS: BlackberryOS
Overview: fg's BlackBerry SIP VoIP Client is a feature rich soft phone application for BlackBerry devices. It can register to any SIP VoIP provider or IP/SIP capable PBX using a WiFi connection in office, campus, home, hotel rooms, public hot-spots etc.
Its much like having a BlackBerry desktop phone in your pocket, providing significantly higher overall productivity while at the same time lowering telephony costs.
Experience the freedom of choosing your own VoIP provider whenever you want, wherever you want. All you need is a WiFi network and a VoIP account.
Jami
Product: Jami
Company: Jami
OS: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android
Jami is an open source universal communication software that respects the freedom and privacy of its users. At its core, Jami aims to be a complete, decentralized, secure and robust means of communication for people.
Fring
Product: Fring
Company: Fring
OS: Windows, MacOS, IOS, Linux, Android, Symbian
Overview: Fring mobile communication service that gives users internet-rich communication from their mobile phones.
Fring members make FREE video calls, voice calls, live chat to other fringsters and to friends on other social networks.
You can now use your SIP account even from non-SIP enabled phones.
Choose whichever SIP provider you have and in just few clicks, start using this account to make calls to landlines, GSM phones, or to other SIP providers.
Supports Symbian S60, iPhone/ iPod touch, Android, Windows Mobile, MeeGo, Linux, J2MEand proprietary OS.
Fring allows you to easily switch between them, without having to reconfigure your handset through a nightmarish process.
Jitsi
Product: Jitsi
Company: Jitsi
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo! and many other useful features.
Jitsi is an Open Source / Free Software, and is available under the terms of the LGPL.
Kiax
Product: Kiax
Company: Kiax
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Overview: Kiax is a softphone (soft phone, VoIP client) with a simple and comfortable user interface for making VoIP calls to Asterisk PBX. It depends on the iaxclient library to use Asterisk's IAX2 protocol for easy call configuration and audio setup.
Linphone
Product: Linphone
Company: Linphone
OS: Windows, Linux, MacOSX, IPhone, Android.
SMS Compatible: Yes
App Storage Consumption: 8.09mb (ability to move app to SD card. Data uses an additional ~0.89mb approx.)
Overview: Linphone is an internet phone or Voice Over IP phone (VoIP). With linphone you can communicate freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging. Linphone makes use of the SIP protocol, an open standard for internet telephony. You can use Linphone with any SIP VoIP operator.
See Configuration Details for PC
See Configuration Details for iOS
See Configuration Details for Android
NetDial Sip Phone
Product: NetDial Sip Phone
Company: NeoMecca
OS: iOS, Android.
MicroSIP
Product: MicroSIP
Company: MicroSIP
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, Linux, macOS
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: MicroSIP is a softphone that works on Windows Operating Systems. It is a SIP Client (softphone) that enables users to make and receive VoIP calls, enabling them to use their devices as an IP-PBX phone extension in their office or anywhere else in the world as well as being really easy to configure.
MizuPhone
Product: MizuPhone
Company: Mizutech
OS: Windows
Overview: Mizu SoftPhone is our award winner professional VoIP client application based on the open standard SIP protocol with an easy to use modern interface. With Mizu SoftPhone you can connect to any SIP server on the public internet or on your local area network.
Multiple accounts and multiple SIP server registrations combined with a powerful dial plan can minimize your telecom bills while using the greatest features from the VoIP industry.
Features include built-in encryption, IM, presence, HD Video, history with voice records, skype like voice quality using ultra-wideband codecs and much more.
A free edition is also available based on the same engine as our corporate sip softphone but it has some features disabled (like G.729 and wideband codecs, multiple accounts and file transfer over SIP).
See Configuration Details for MizuPhone Classic Edition
See Configuration Details for MizuPhone Modern Edition
MizuDroid
Product: MizuDroid
Company: Mizutech
OS: Android
Overview: MizuDroid is an unlocked VoIP softphone for Android mobile phones and tablets based on open standards, compatible with all VoIP providers, software and devices using the SIP protocol.
See Configuration Details for MizuDroid
NinjaLite
Product: NinjaLite
Company: Global IP Telecommunications
OS: Windows
Overview: Ninja Lite offers Audio- and video telephony for everybody, Ninja features individual skins and ringtones!, Ninja is natively Vista 32bit /64 bit and Windows7 compatible.
PhonerLite
Product: PhonerLite
Company: PhonerLite
OS: Windows
Overview: PhonerLite is a clearly arranged application for Windows. PhonerLite enables your PC to use it for internet telephony (VoIP , Voice over IP ). Pre-conditions are a full-duplex sound card , a microphone and speakers (alternativelya headset), an internet connection and a registration at a provider supporting the protocol SIP .PhonerLite supports several SIP profiles, each configurable independently. In thesame way the integrated phone book and call log are easy to use.
PortGo
Product: PortGo
Company: PortSIP Solutions, Inc
OS: Windows (desktop and mobile)
Overview: PortGo is the newest SIP softphone from PortSIP, it's built base on PortSIP VoIP SDK, allowing users to enjoy multimedia communications in a dynamic way.
Featuring an intuitive interface, PortGo is expanding the softphone experience by making it even easier to make VoIP and Video over IP calls, see when your contacts are available and send Instant Messages. PortGo features an IM interface which focuses on your contacts and friends.
QuteCom
Product: QuteCom
Company: QuteCom
OS: Windows,MacOS,Linux
Overview: QuteCom is a community of enthusiasts and developers, creating free software products related to communication over IP. The flagship product of the QuteCom project is a softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place.
SessionTalk
Product: SessionTalk
Company: SessionTalk
OS: Android, iOS
Overview: SessionTalk Mobile is a feature rich mobile SIP Client for iOS and Android handsets Voice calls and SMS Messaging* support.
SIP Droid
Product: SIP Droid
Company: SIP Droid
OS: Android
App Storage Consumption: 1.85mb (ability to move app to SD card. Data uses an additional ~4kb approx.)
Overview: SIPDroid is a java based, open source SIP client that has recently been developed for use with mobile devices based on Google’s Android platform.
SIPnetic
Product: SIP Droid
Company: SIP Droid
OS: Android
Overview: Sipnetic is a free VoIP softphone based on the SIP protocol. It allows you to connect to your VoIP provider, cloud PBX, or an enterprise telephony server. Voice over IP (VoIP) technology offers many attractive advantages over the legacy telephony. It is often cheaper and provides some advanced features, such as video calls, instant messages, or data encryption.
SJPhone
Product: SJPhone
Company: SJ Labs, Inc.
OS: Windows,Windows Mobile
Overview: SJphone is a VOIP softphone that allows you to speak with any other softphone, any stand-alone IP-phone, or using ITSP with any traditional wired or mobile phone.
It supports both SIP and H.323 standards and is fully inter-operable with most major VOIP vendors and ITSP.
Softphone.Pro
Product: Softphone.Pro
Company: Vedisoft
OS: Windows, macOS
Overview: Softphone.Prop is a great solution for call center agents, sales pros and support teams.
Main features:
• Easy integration with CRM • 32 SIP accounts supported • Call recording and screen capture • Click-to-call and auto and easy 2-click transfer • Voicemail Drop and Prerecorded Greeting on Answer • ACW and BLF status control • Professional headsets support • Listen, whisper, barge • Customizable interface • Hotkeys
Taki
Product: Taki
Company: Taki
OS: BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry PlayBook
Project site: http://taki.sourceforge.net/
App in the AppWorld: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/130295
Overview: Taki is a native SIP softphone for BlackBerry® PlayBook™ and BlackBerry® 10 platforms.
Main Features: - Multiple SIP accounts support - Multiple simultaneous calls - Call recording - Conference calls - Advanced call control: Transfer, Hold, Mute, Reject, Redial, switch between multiple active calls - Speaker phone support - Address book. Integration with local contacts on BlackBerry 10 phones - Comprehensive SIP settings (port binding, outbound proxy, registrar, codecs priority, NAT traversal, STUN, Presence, and more) - Transports: UDP/TCP - Audio codecs: G.711a/u, GSM, iLBC, G.722 (HD), Speex (NB, WB, UWB) - Built for BlackBerry
Telephone
Product: Telephone
Company: 64 Characters
OS: OS X 10.9 or later
Project site: http://www.64characters.com/telephone/
Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/telephone/id406825478
Overview: Telephone is a fully-featured SIP client with a minimalist user interface.
Main Features:
- Multiple SIP accounts
- Multiple simultaneous calls w/conferencing
- Call control: Transfer, Hold, Mute, Reject, Redial, Call Waiting, multiple active calls
- Speaker phone/headset support (via Mac sound device)
- Integration with Contacts app, dial by name, autocomplete, click to dial
- Send DTMF tones
- Languages: English, German, Russian
tSIP
Product: tSIP
Project site: https://tomeko.net/software/SIPclient/
Overview: tSIP is a one-man dedicated project throughout multiple years of development and updates, free for anyone to use.
Main Features:
- Call control: Transfer, Hold, Mute, Reject, Redial
- Send DTMF tones
- Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian
X-Lite
Product: X-Lite
Company: CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: CounterPath's X-Lite helps you seamlessly transition from a traditional phone environment into the world of Voice over IP.
The latest release of X-Lite provides a completely redesigned interface that allows for a contact-centric or dialpad-centric user experience, or a combination of the two. It also provides you with some of the most popular features of our fully loaded Bria and eyeBeam softphones so you can take them for a test drive before you make your purchase.
Having a simple voice conversation, you’ll soon see why having a softphone on your desktop or laptop is the ultimate communications experience.
ZoiPer
Product: ZoiPer
Company: ZoiPer
OS: Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: IAX & SIP multilanguage softphone is a VoIP soft client, meant to work with any IP-based communications systems and infrastructure.
Zoiper is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports the following languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Magyar.
- See Configuration Details for Zoiper Classic for PC/MAC
- See Configuration Details for ZoiPer 5 for PC/MAC
- See Configuration Details for ZoiPer 5 PRO for PC`MAC
- See Configuration Details for android
- See Configuration Details for iOS
ZoiPer Communicator
Product: Zoiper Communicator
Company: Zoiper
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris
SMS Compatible: Yes
Overview: Zoiper Communicator IAX & SIP softphone is a converged Internet communication tool combining high-quality voice and video calls, fax, instant messaging and presence through a contact-centric intuitive interface.
