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
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.
Earlier versions of 3CXPhone could connect to a VoIP provider or to a VoIP PBX to make calls to any VoIP, mobile or landline number. The current versions (3CXPhone client 11 and 12) for the Android platform only work with a same-version 3CX Phone System server; that server in turn should be able to connect to a standard SIP provider such as VoIP.ms. Another option is to use the Windows 3CX desktop client, which has is no licensing fee and is not tied to a particular VoIP provider.
Acrobits
Product: Acrobits
Company: Acrobits
OS: IOS, Android
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.
Android Sip Client
Product: Android
Company: Google Android
OS: Android
Overview: Android SIP Client that is included with Android 4.1.1. We cannot guarantee 100% compatibility with all future Android releases since settings may change. We recommend the use of a Wi-Fi connection with these features, instead of a 3G connection. You also could be billed for your data usage if used over 3G/EDGE.
Bria
Product: Bria
Company: CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux (Ubuntu), IOS, Android
App Storage Consumption: 6.11mb (intl. mem only- SD card unusable. Data uses an additional ~2mb approx.)
Overview: Bria 3 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 Android Edition 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.
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
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
Diax
Product: Diax
Company: Diax
OS: Windows
Overview:This is a full featured and very small IAX based software phone for Microsoft Windows platforms (only). The application is distributed as a freeware for personal use.
This is a full featured and very small (just around 300KB for all the files) IAX2 based software phone for Microsoft. It is based on the iaxclient library.
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.
Grandstream Wave
Product: Grandstream Wave
Company: Grandstream
OS: Android
Overview: Grandstream Wave is a FREE softphone application that allows users to make and receive voice calls through their business or residential SIP accounts on any Android™ device (version 4.0+) from anywhere in the world.
This application supports integration of up to 6 SIP accounts, 6-way voice conferencing, and allows users to monitor their PBX (such as Grandstream's UCM6100 series IP PBX & UCM6510 IP PBX) while utilizing speed dial with up to 24 virtual BLF keys.
Grandstream Wave also supports advanced SIP telephony features including call transfer, LDAP phonebook integration and more.
Idoubs
Product: Idoubs
Company: Idoubs
OS: iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) and MAC OS X
Overview: iDoubs v2.x is the first fully featured open source 3GPP IMS Client for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad).
As the SIP follows RFC 3261 and 3GPP TS 24.229 Rel-9 specifications, this will allow you to connect to any compliant SIP registrar.
Crystal clear audio quality (adaptive jitter buffer, echo cancellation, noise suppression, automatic resampling, gain control, ...)
Better video quality (low latency, low cpu usage, ...)
Audio codecs: G.722, G.729AB, AMR-NB, iLBC, GSM, PCMA, PCMU, Speex-NB, Speex-WB, Speex-UWB
Video codecs: . VP8, H264, MP4V-ES, Theora, H.263, H.263-1998
Chat (SMS-like) & Favorites
Jitsi
Product: Jitsi
Company: Jitsi
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
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.
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.
NetDial Sip Phone
Product: NetDial Sip Phone
Company: NeoMecca
OS: iOS, Android.
Media5-fone
Product: Media5-fone
Company: Media5 Corporation
OS: Android, iOS
Overview: The Media5-fone is a softphone application that runs on the Android and the iOS Operating System. 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.
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).
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.
Nokia E71
Product: Nokia E71 SIP Client
Company: Nokia
OS: Symbian
Nokia N82
Product: Nokia N82 SIP Client
Company: Nokia
OS: Symbian OS 9.2, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
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.
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.
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.
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
Vimphone
Product: Vimphone
Company: Vimtura
OS: Android
Overview: Vimphone is a free app (GPL) which allows Android users to make inexpensive calls using VoIP.ms (or any SIP-compliant provider) and a wi-fi connection.
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.
YakaPhone
Product: YakaPhone
Company: Bits Valley Ltd
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Overview: Yaka Software focuses on providing solutions based on established open source technologies within the Voice-Over-IP sphere. Their flagship products are the customizable IAX-based softphone.It is Open Source and may be modified but any pre or post modification commercial usage requires their prior authorization.
Zoiper Classic
Product: Zoiper Classic
Company: Zoiper
OS: Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS
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 PC/MAC
- See Configuration Details for ANDROID
- See Configuration Details for iOS
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.
