Windows Softphone

[Bridgette Kubis]

The3CX softphone for Windows is a free softphone that you can use to make and receive VoIP phone calls from your PC. The advantage of using the 3CX softphone for Windows is that you can leverage low cost or free VoIP calls.

Bria Solo (the new X-lite Softphone) combines support for multiple SIP accounts with team communication and collaboration services from CounterPath supporting a range of codecs and also offering great support for desktop business video Microsoft Teams.

It appears there may be an issue here with the Icons in the title bar. It looks like if you are in dark mode they are almost invisible. These buttons allow you to a) reduce the size of the softphone b) dock the softphone into the main window

With a VoIP softphone, your team is free to make and receive business calls away from the office desk phone. Access to your entire business communications is available in the cloud, on desktop and mobile apps. As a result, your business totally eliminates the need for call center hardware and saves thousands of dollars while gaining unprecedented mobility.

MightyCall combines a feature-rich business communications system with a sleek, easy-to-use softphone client. The system is compatible with most standard softphones for Windows as well as softphones for Mac. Setup is easy in both cases.

Should you not want to pay anything extra for a softphone system, MightyCall comes with its own webphone accessible in all browsers, and a mobile softphone app. Any team member connected to your account can make and receive business calls straight from their PC/laptop or mobile phone without downloading any third-party software.

MightyCall offers native integrations with Hubspot, Salesforce, and other CRM platforms. You can also connect MightyCall with over 1500 business apps on Zapier. All integrations are free on Business and Enterprise plans.

MightyCall is prized for its live customer service, available via live chat, phone, and email. Plus, free help is always available to all clients with phone system setup, integrations, and any questions they may have.

Linphone is a free open-source softphone app for making voice and video calls over the internet and using texting. Developers can modify and even rebrand Linphone or book those services from the product development team. This makes it a flexible solution for enterprise clients.

3CX softphone is a solution for knowledgeable businesses looking for an annual subscription plan. The service runs in the Cloud on all operating systems, but as a desktop softphone for Windows only. Compatibility includes Windows 10, 8.1, 8, or 7 SP1, with 10 preferred. 3CX does offer a constantly developing web client and useful Chrome extensions.

Grasshopper is a business phone system that comes with desktop and mobile dialers that can be used to place calls online. As a long-standing Voice over IP provider, Grasshopper softphone apps come with standard virtual telephony features.

Companies should look into buying the ZoiPer 5 license which, for a one-time fee, gives access to calling features. If you already have a business phone number, are familiar with softphone applications, and need a lifetime license without subscription fees, this is one of the best softphones for you.

Support for technical issues is available only through the contact form on the Zoiper website. When you fill out the form, it creates a ticket which is then attended to within one business day according to Zoiper.

Ringcentral is one of the veteran virtual phone number providers. Like most enterprise-level virtual telephony platforms, it comes with its own softphone system. However, the features of this phone system and its pricing model are designed for large businesses.

Bria (formerly X-Lite) is another top softphone compatible with most virtual telephony including MightyCall. Bria offers four solutions for different-sized businesses or individuals. Bria Solo Free and Bria Solo are made for freelancers and solopreneurs, while Bria Teams is the solution for multiple users.

Compared to its competitors Bria Solo Free has extremely limited functionality. Their paid plans, though, are on the lower-pricing end and are a good starter deal to make/receive calls from laptops and mobile phones, with multi-device and multi-platform support, and a chance to upgrade later.

Another free, open-source softphone provider, presently available for Windows OS users. Some of its most attractive characteristics are the features provided for free and its lightweight presence on your hard drive (>2.5MB) and RAM usage (>5MB).

At first glance it seems Ooma Office is built around desk phones and IP adaptors that would connect a standard office to a virtual phone system and avoid call forwarding to computers or mobile phones. However, on the Pro plan, Ooma does offer native softphone software.

The company boasts that it designed the product for small businesses with an eye on cost-effective service. However, on all plans, including Pro, it offers only 1 business phone number per user included. The service has a web panel and mobile app that function as a dialer. The mobile app has user-friendly UI with a simple, easy-to-use menu of features.

The Pro Plan includes integrations with AllProWebTools CRM, Chrometa time tracking, Zoho, office suite, and Zapier. However, there are no native integrations with the most popular CRM like Hubspot and Salesforce, PipeDrive, etc.

Sipnetic is a free and ad-free softphone application. It may be used with your VoIP, PBX, or enterprise telephony provider. Currently available only for Android, it boasts quite an interesting set of features for a freebie, which makes it applicable as a softphone for business.

Sipnetic UI is slick and modern and resembles apps like Skype. The contact list has presence indicators, so you can view contacts that are online. The app supports calling in 3G/4G and WI-FI. It is available in several languages. It can also be easily configured via QR code.

Unlike all of the above services, Line2 is totally minimalistic. It offers only a single plan, billed monthly or annually, at a more attractive price. The plan comes with unlimited calling in the USA/Canada, unlimited SMS/MMS, and basic PBX features.

Mizutech is a softphone for windows that can be connected to any SIP server. MizuTech offers several products: MizuPhone Basic, a free product, MizuPhone Full (full-featured version) as well as customizable and branded products.

The developers clearly focused on providing the most features among competitors, albeit at the cost of limited UI development. However, although MizuTech displays the most generous softphone for business feature list among competitors, only in the comparison section do we see that nearly all of these features are reserved for the paid version of the product.

CloudTalk is a cloud phone system designed around sales and customer support teams in larger companies. It comes with advanced integrations and call-center-inspired communication features. The software is available on all platforms including Linux.

If you have large sales teams or a heavy call load, are already familiar with virtual phone solutions and need advanced functionality out of softphones for business, look into this option. However, the product is definitely not for folks just looking for a simple softphone solution to use when out of the office or for remote work.

CloudTalk offers some of the widest integration capabilities of business phones. These include integrations with lots of CRM like Salesforce, Hubspot, Pipedrive, integrations via Zapier, connectivity with Slack, Zendesk, Shopify, and lots more.

Since all softphone apps require a business phone system to function, getting your app bundled into a comprehensive business communications platform is usually the best option. It helps avoid paying for two subscriptions, juggling apps, and adapting to two products.

Now using SIP or IAX, 90% of my endpoints use SIP(all of them hardware). The other 10% use zoiper and connect using IAX. My endpoints are scattered all over the place. All of my trunks are IAX2, All my DIDs are IAX aswell. I have a VOIP lab at home, and I have found using a completely different subnet helps. It is a QoS strategy I find works very well. When i have a say in the way enpoints are layed out in an Intranet, I prefer the voip equipment be completely segregated from the rest of the data network all the way down to the WAN Gateway. But managing traffic through one port is alot easier than with SIP. So I guess what i mean to say is if your gonna use a softphone stay with one that supports IAX and use it.

Setting up an account for someone with IAX is really no different than with SIP. Username and password setup is the same really. There are a few things involving call tokens, Dealing with it can be tricky. Its all worth the effort though.

ROUTER-1 Offers the best quality connection to asterisk all the time, Trunks and DIDs come first, Than the FXS devices.

Since each layer has its own control, It is fairly easy to manage. You can get into things like VLAN tagging and such, But I personally havent really played with that much. It offers a very useful way to get QoS on your incoming and outgoing packets on a large network.

I think your into a fun and ambitious project, I think you should find a hardware solution for your problem, Like an ATA device.

They offer so much more control and keep service issues to a minimum as a failing computer doesnt remove access to a phone call or even PBX features. later today im going to try adding a few iax users to my server(internally), As my current users make there access via the WAN.

I do not want users to have the ability to directly access my server equipment. Once I write all the configuration files needed I let my machines do there work. I must state that this is not the kind of work I do to pay my bills. I actually work as a laborer, So I really only do this for the fun of it, I also take it as seriously as possible.

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