Skype
Skype offers free video and voice calls, instant messaging, and affordable landline and mobile calls, all on multiple devices. With over 300 million users worldwide, you can connect easily, share moments, and stay in touch effortlessly. Supports up to 250 users in Skype for Business.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Android Wear
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Video Calling
- Screen Sharing
- VoiP Calls
- Encrypted Chat
Microsoft Office integration- Video Conferencing
- Dark Mode
Exchange Integration- Secure Chat
- Multiple languages
- Ad-free
IFTTT Integration- Live Captions Translation
- Voice messages
- Voice Chat
- Messages
- Team Messaging
Tags
- Video Chat
- Messaging
- messaging-client
- Voicemail
- messaging-system
- international-calls
- typing-indicator
- voicemails
- voice-over-internet
- voice-over-internet-protoctol
- pc-to-phone
- messengers
- Chat
- messenger-app
- message-popup
Skype News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft to increase on-premises server and CAL Suite prices in 2025Microsoft will increase prices for all standalone on-premises server products - such as SharePoint ...
- POX published news article about Skype
Skype is officially shutting down for good today, as Microsoft transitions users to TeamsSkype, the once-popular video call platform, is officially being discontinued as of today, marking ...
- Maoholguin published news article about Skype
Microsoft is finally killing off Skype after over 20 years, shifting focus to TeamsMicrosoft has officially announced that Skype will be retired in May 2025, after 22 years of servic...
Recent activities
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What is Skype?
Skype is the most popular free voice-over IP and instant messaging service globally. It allows users to text, video and voice call over the internet. Users can also call landlines and mobiles at competitive rates using Skype credit, premium accounts and subscriptions.
Features:
- Find all of your friends and family in an instant - search for friends, groups, conversations or new contacts on Skype. With over 300 million people using Skype, you’re bound to bump into someone you know.
- Call your world for free - Free voice and video calls let you talk to your heart’s content with all your friends and family on Skype.
- Make low cost calls to mobiles and landlines - Keep in touch with anyone even if they’re not on Skype, with low cost calls to mobiles and landlines.
- Instantly get in touch - No matter where you are, your friends are always available with free instant messaging.
- Share moments - Send photos, record and send video messages, share your location or share web content with the people who matter most.
- Available for Apple Watch - see your notifications and chat on your Apple Watch so you’re always part of the conversation.
- Skype is available everywhere - on smartphones, tablets, Macs, PCs, and even TVs. Whatever your friends or family use, Skype is there. Simple.
The Skype that you use at home is great for smaller businesses of up to 20 employees. It is free to use, unless you want to buy credit to make calls to landlines and mobiles.
Skype for Business lets you add up to 250 people to online meetings, gives you enterprise-grade security, allows you to manage employee accounts, and is integrated into your Office apps. It costs from $2 per month per user.
Skype information
Developed by
Microsoft Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $3 and $14 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 2.6Alternatives
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- English
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan; Valencian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Chinese
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
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Comments and Reviews
Even though it's still technically functional, it is not private or secure enough for me. I want something decentralized and distributed. I want nobody to peek into my text or calls. See Jami for example.
Skype was pretty terrible from the start, but it has been completely devastated through recent updates. The UWP version of the client was (like almost every UWP app) an entirely unusable, feature-free toy that wasn't useful for anything, but at least we could use the legacy desktop version. Now my Windows 7 client was updated to a similarly horrible version that won't let me do any of the things I used to do in Skype anymore.
It's one of those mind-bogglingly bloated Electron applications, which means you'll get a 180 MB monstrosity of a JS framework and browser, for functionality that used to fit into 3 MB. Of course that also means that its UI is built with web technologies, which means it's a disgrace to even call it a desktop app – it's not anymore. It's as numbingly slow and high-latency as you would expect a web app to be. Don't even get me started on memory consumption. 400 MB in idle without any windows open? You bet. Damned be the day that web developers began to be able/allowed to develop for Desktop, because they don't have a freaking clue what they're doing.
Of course, the best part is that it's a complete re-write, with an estimated 95% of the features that the previous Skype clients had simply gone without replacement. Contact groups? Gone. Chat search? Gone. Configuration options? Gone. Now it's just another flashy-looking but useless toy that doesn't cater to anyone's needs anymore, with the only distinguishing feature being that some old contacts of yours might still be using it. Ditch it, the sooner the better.
NOW A DEAD APP. wish we could have a version alternative review. the 2005 version was the best.
"Suggested" feature is extremely annoying and has to be disabled manually every time the app starts. And like any Microsoft app, it is getting worse with every iteration. If I did not have a friend that uses Skype and can not be easily taught other apps, I would have deleted it a long time ago.
Skype is compatible with SMS, but it uses a separate phone number, so it is not a replacement for Apple Messages.
"Discover a quick, simple way to connect via SMS online (text messaging) anytime, anywhere with Skype." "A Skype Number is a second phone number which is attached to your Skype account."
https://www.skype.com/en/features/ https://secure.skype.com/en/skype-number/
It's alight. I was suing zoom for a while but came back to Skype
ah yes. another microsoft product that is bloated and slow af.