Telephone Alternatives
Telephone is described as 'allows you to make phone calls over the Internet or your company network. If your phone line supports SIP protocol, you can use it on your Mac instead of a physical phone anywhere you have a decent network connection' and is an app in the social & communications category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Telephone for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iPhone, Android, Mac and Linux apps. The best Telephone alternative is Signal, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Telephone are Jami, Wire, Zulip and Linphone.
Telephone alternatives are mainly Instant Messengers but may also be Video Calling Apps or Encrypted Chat Apps. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Telephone.Signal
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Instant Messenger
- Encrypted Chat App
- Group Chat App
208 Signal alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Flathub
- Ubuntu
- Debian
Signal is a messaging app with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all the features expected from a modern IM app. Signal has received a lot of praise from all around the world for its security and privacy-respecting technologies.
- - Signal is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to Telephone.
- - Signal is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Telephone.
Signal Features
Comments about Signal as a Alternative to Telephone
It can't connect to your pbx, the whole point of a softphone.
0SethSignal is not a SIP client
0Jami
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Video Calling App
- Instant Messenger
- Encrypted Chat App
147 Jami alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone) positions itself as a potential free Skype replacement
- - Jami is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Telephone.
Jami Features
Wire
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free Personal • Open Source
- Group Chat App
- Instant Messenger
- Video Calling App
262 Wire alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Wire is the most secure collaboration platform featuring messenger, voice, video, conference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration –all protected by the most secure end-to-end-encryption.
- - Wire is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Telephone.
Wire Features
Zulip
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free Personal • Open Source
- Group Chat App
- Instant Messenger
- Encrypted Chat App
221 Zulip alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Zulip topics create a separate space for each discussion, so different conversations will never get in each other's way.
Zulip Features
Linphone
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Instant Messenger
- Encrypted Chat App
- Group Chat App
82 Linphone alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Xfce
Linphone is one of the most famous open source softphones in the world. It is fully SIP-based, for all calling, presence and IM features.
Linphone Features
Empathy
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo140 Empathy alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Instant Messenger
- Video Calling App
- Linux
- BSD
Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting within one application.
Empathy Features
DiscontinuedEmpathy is currently unmaintained. Last version, 3.25, released in August 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Whereby
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Freemium • Proprietary
- Video Calling App
- Group Chat App
- Instant Messenger
133 Whereby alternatives- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Video conversations with up to 8 people in your browser - no downloads, no login. Just name your channel and you are on. Works in all modern browsers, even mobile.
Whereby Features
MicroSIP
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo31 MicroSIP alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Video Calling App
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
MicroSIP is a free portable SIP softphone for Windows based on PJSIP stack. It allowing to do high quality VoIP calls (P2P or on regular telephones) via open SIP protocol. From cloud of SIP providers you can choose best for you, register account and use it with MicroSIP. You'.
MicroSIP Features
3CX
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Freemium • Proprietary
34 3CX alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Raspberry Pi
- Microsoft Office Suite
The 3CX Phone System is the software-based private branch exchange (PBX) Phone system based on the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) standard and enables extensions to make calls via the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or via Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services...
3CX Features
Zoiper
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free Personal • Proprietary
44 Zoiper alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Windows Phone
Zoiper IAX & SIP multilanguage and multiplatform (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) softphone is a VoIP soft client, meant to work with any IP-based communications systems and infrastructure.
Zoiper Features
YakYak
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
- Instant Messenger
98 YakYak alternatives- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Hangouts
Desktop client for Google Hangouts.
YakYak Features
PhonerLite enables your PC to use it for internet telephony (VoIP , Voice over IP, SIP). You need an internet connection and an account from a provider supporting the SIP protocol.
PhonerLite Features