Telephone App Reviews

version 1.1 crashes everytime when there is an incoming call. This is with OSX 10.8.5 The console app shows Dyld Error Message: Symbol not found: ___sincos_stret Referenced from: /Applications/Telephone.app/Contents/MacOS/Telephone Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Simple ui and very reliable. I would love an option for a visual dialpad though! Thanks!

This app is just simple & nice! All what I want! Only problem I noticed, when not using earphones, people on the phone hear their own voice (echo.), it sounds like there is something to do with the audio config to avoid that. But with earphones, that’s perfect! Thanks!

Hi, I have problem that microphone input clips. Skype etc. uses automatic gain control to fix this. Would be great if you could add this to Telephone Thanks Jaap

I’ve been using Telephone for a few months now as a way to tap into my office phones while on the road. I had used Zoiper before, and find the clean, uncluttered interface for Telephone to be leaps and bounds ahed of a everything else. I don’t want my computer to become a desk phone, I want it to provide the functionality of one while letting me take notes or continue to work on the remaining screen real estate. Telephone does a great job of getting out of the way in those situations. I do wish it had some softkey support so that I didn’t have to remember voicemail and other feature codes, but transferring is the most important of these and it is baked in. Besides that one small omission, this app has and does everything a solid smartphone should do, and better and easier than anything else out there.

Not exactly what it says it is. Seems to use a proxy in eastern europe to connect. Whitch may be why it didnt work at all with our PBX… we firewall RIPE IPs since most connections from there are just trying to hack something. 3 strikes: 1) uses proxy and doesnt say it up front 2) does so from an area with security issues 3) didnt work I would not trust this developer for at least 2 of those reasons. Uninstalling...

It is one of the very few (reasonably priced) SIP phones that support Address Book integration - which is exactly the one feature it needs! Everything just works - crystal clear voice, choice of I/O channels for voice and ring (built-audio vs. USB headset vs. …), and ICE for firewall traversal. The two things I could see added in the future are: * Visual list of your address book (now you have to type in the name/number and it will start matching) * Voice Mail support… (Then again, I setup my VoIP account to forward voice mail to my email inbox…) For what it is, it’s the best thing out there. :)

I really liked how light weight this client looked but it doesn’t seem to want to play nice with my works VPN as it just times out when trying to make outbound calls.

We use this inside our office LAN to connect to our VOIP phone system. The UI is barely there. You just type the numbers using your keyboard and it does the right thing. Sound quality is pretty good, too. I don’t understand whtat Crash1977 says about any proxy. There are none it uses by default — it connects directly to our server which has no public visibility.

They never seemed to work correctly or in a stable fashion. This one just works. I love it that I don’t have to worry about it actually ringing and placing calls.

It Installs. It dials. It connects. But I can’t hear anyone else nor can they hear me. Meanwhile, with the same settings on X-lite, it works just fine. Support is non existent.

This app just works. Simple user interface, good call quality, and correct features for my use. No complaints!

Maybe I’m misisng something, but I don’t think this app can be used with Google Voice. Therefore, it is of no use to me.

Tried to use it over OpenVPN, Telephone crashes all the time.

I have been very happy to use this as a VOIP phone to work. It is very simple and very helpful. I use it with a Microsoft LX-6000 headset. There are some odd bits—for example, I have to be sure the headset is plugged in *before* I launch Telephone.app. But Telephone.app offers a UI for muting the phone. It doesn’t work. It works sometimes. But sometimes it shows “mic muted” and doesn’t actually mute the microphone. Today I sighed in a meeting. Whoops.

I love this app and use it daily, but I have issues when attempting to transfer a call. I have yet to be able to click the Transfer button and the other party get the call correctly. In my testing, I can transfer a call, but only the callee can hear the agent that the call was transfered to, but the agent can’t hear the end customer. Funky. I still use this app, only now I transfer to my old Linksys phone and then Transfer again, if this was fixed I’d give 5 stars, still pretty solid VOip solution though.

This is my new favorite Mac SIP client. (If you want something more robust, may want to check out X-Lite and Linphone) It is so simple. Just like a telephone. Look up the number, Dial, hangup, and redial. The keypad works for dialing extension. This is a must for me and is surprisingly not available on many of the Sip clients. The phone quality is clear, and no problems so far. The dial dialog lacks a little polish. Typing a user’s name displays the user’s name and number together and is a little ugly. Typing the number does reverse lookup adding the name of the user. A very nice touch. Also, the response of hanging up has a lag, and I often redial a person while trying to disconnect. Configuration: It was a little tricky to get running for me. But with only 3 checkboxes, it didn’t take that long. The developer’s site does have a great faq, with references to logfiles and the like. I didn’t realize this until after I got everything working on my own. Personally, I love Alfred (with powerpack), so I just linked the person’s telephone number to the url scheme “sip:”. Unfortunatly, a different sip client was issuing calls, but used the dated RCDefaultApp to link “sip” to Telephone. After fixing the url scheme, it works great. very cool. Open Source: The source is also available on GitHub, so it is easy to submit issues and propose patches. Very cool. Previous poster mentioned security and hinted that it was going through a foreign country. The code is right there so you can verify any strange behavior.

I use this app daily and love it, the only thing mssing is three-way calling. (hints the 4 starts)

There is no dial-tone support, so voice talk works, but you won’t be able to use it for ARS.

The setup up is your name, the IP of the PBX (the app calls domain), username/password. To call type in number. To answer push accept. Thats the entire UI - There is no dial pad, volume control - its as basic as one can get. First phone either virtual or physical that does not have dial pad that I have ever seen. So this means the phone does not have access to any options your PBX or SIP service may offer, like voicemail. I can answer / make calls on it - that it.