Softphones
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3CX Phone
Product: 3CX
Company: 3CX
OS: Windows, IOS, Android
Overview: 3CXPhone is a free VoIP phone available for Windows, iPhone or any Android based smart phone such as Google Nexus, Sony Xperia, Motorola Droid or Samsung Galaxy.
Connect 3CXPhone to a VoIP provider or to a VoIP PBX to make calls to any VoIP, mobile or landline number.
There is no licensing fee and you are not tied to a particular VoIP provider.
CSipSimple
Product: CSipSimple
Company: CSipSimple
OS: Android
Overview: CSipSimple is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application for Google Android operating system using the SIP.
CSipSimple is an open source and free software released under the GNU General Public License.
It relies on the pjsip SIP stack and get features provided by this sip stack.
The key features of this software are :
Various codecs support : Speex (narrow band and wideband), G.711 (u-law, a-law), GSM, iLBC, SILK(narrow band, wideband and ultra wideband), G.722
- Can use native audio driver
- STUN and ICE NAT traversal
- Integration with Android operating system with filters and rewriting rules
- A distribution of the software available on the website allow SRTP, SIP over TLS and ZRTP
- SIP-SIMPLE messaging
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.
Express Talk
Product: Express Talk
Company: NCH Software
OS: Windows, MacOS
Overview: Express Talk works like a telephone to let you make calls through your computer. Call anyone via the internet who also has a softphone installed and if you sign up with a VoIP gateway service company you call regular telephone numbers as well.
With Express Talk you could potentially call someone using their internet IP (eg. "[email protected]") but this is not usually practical. It is much easier to use a friendly address like "[email protected]". To have this you need to sign up with a SIP proxy service. This is almost always free to signup for and usually requires nothing more than an email address. See our Recommended SIP Service Providers List for a list of options.
Some of the companies also provide gateway services. This means connecting phone calls to ordinary (non internet or analog PSTN) phone lines. These calls tend to be much less expensive particularly for international calls compared to regular long distance charges since they can offer local call rates.
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.
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.
SIP Droid
Product: SIP Droid
Company: SIP Droid
OS: Android
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.
PBXes allows you to register several trunks from multiple telephony service providers of your choice. PBXes routes incoming calls over SIP and the PSTN to you. If you are online you can take a call as VoIP, and if you are offline the call will fall back to GSM.
Beyond their free basic service, a paid account additionally allows for handoff of calls between networks. PBXes also supports NAT.
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.
X-Lite
Product: X-Lite
Company: CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
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 Classic
Product: Zoiper Classic
Company: Zoiper
OS: Windows, MacOS
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.
Zoiper Communicator
Product: Zoiper Communicator
Company: Zoiper
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris
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.
