I am looking for a reliable and preferably privacy oriented alternative to Skype credit - a service that allows me to call landlines and mobile phones via an app or website. I’ve heard of Yadaphone and Yolla, but I don’t know much about them or where they are based. Do you guys have any experience with these? Do you have other recommendations?
Shouldn’t any VoIP service work?
I don’t really know this stuff, that’s why I’m asking for recommendations 😄 do you know any good ones?
Nope. The goal is to call regular telephone numbers from your computer.
Yes, exactly what VoIP is for.
VoIP means any online call, including Zoom-to-Zoom or Skype-to-Skype or Discord-to-Discord.
Most VoIP programs don’t support calling regular telephone numbers.
I know this is “buy European”, but In North America JMP.Chat is your answer (from memory they are Canadian). It uses XMPP for the client, so you can sign in using their official android app, or you can use any XMPP client, which there are for any basically imaginable platform. Their onboarding and setup wasn’t the most intuitive or straightforward when I used it (in 2021 maybe?) but it’s still not too bad if you’re minimally competent with computers. It’s open source too so you can audit everything they do! They are also over here on lemmy: https://lemmy.ml/c/sopranica
I think there is also Sudo privacy, but I’m not sure where they are from
I know this doesn’t cover your requirements, for those looking for a group video call alternative, my plan is to migrate to Signal. It is available for Linux, Windows and Mac, although you need it registered with a phone first I believe, but this isn’t a problem in my case. Otherwise Jitsi is a good video conferencing option.
For calling phone, sorry I don’t have recommendations :(
my plan is to migrate to Signal
Don’t forget to add this contact to the group chat!
Fongo is Canadian.
