6 services to make free calls over the Internet

Educational Program Web Services / by admin / December 19, 2019

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To call each other for free, you need to follow two simple conditions: connect to the same service and to be online.

Service for free calls is to choose, taking into account its popularity. The more the audience of the project, the greater the chance that it is used by your friends, and the easier it will be to contact them. Therefore, the selection includes the services that are most in demand in Russia, Ukraine and CIS countries.

1. Skype

Skype has become one of the first popular service for making free calls and was known among computer users even before the era of smart phones. Microsoft drew the success of the project, which acquired Skype and joined in his new strength development. Skype is now available on all modern platforms and enters the list of the most popular services for short messages and phone calls.

Service allows you to call from desktop and mobile applications. You can also make calls from the browser through the Skype web version, but this service will ask you to install a special plug-in. Skype supports both voice and video calls. You can call to one subscriber or to arrange a conference with several people.

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Skype → desktop client

Web version of Skype →

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Skype for iPhone

Developer: Skype Communications S.a.r.l

Price: Free

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Skype - Free instant messages and video call

Developer: Skype

Price: Free

2. Viber

Viber is probably the most popular online telephony service for the residents of post-Soviet countries. Historically, that in the majority of owners of smartphones in our region free voice communication associated with this project.

Through Viber you can make not only audio, but also video calls from the desktop and mobile applications. Conference mode in this service yet. The web version is also missing, so it is impossible to call from browser.

Viber → desktop client

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viber Messenger

Developer: Viber Media SARL.

Price: Free

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Viber: Calls and Messages

Developer: Viber Media S.à r.l.

Price: Free

3. facebook Messenger

This service is part of the largest social network, the number of users more than one billion people. Surely you and most of your friends are already using it for correspondences to Facebook. In this case, you do not even have to install anything, because with the help of facebook Messenger it is possible not only to exchange text messages, but also to call.

The service supports free calls from the browser (with no plug-ins), and the mobile client. Users have access to audio and video. It offers voice conferencing and video chat.

Web version of Facebook Messenger →

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Messenger

Developer: Facebook, Inc.

Price: Free

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Messenger

Developer: Facebook

Price: Free

4. Telegram

messenger Telegram - founder of the project "VKontakte" Pavel Durov. This service is relatively new, but rapidly gaining popularity in the world.

Telegram can serve you to make free calls from the desktop and mobile applications. The service has a web version, but calls from it while it is impossible. With Telegram, you can only make voice calls and talk with only one caller at a time.

Telegram → desktop client

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Telegram Messenger

Developer: Telegram LLC

Price: Free

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Developer: Telegram FZ-LLC

Price: Free

5. WhatsApp

Another Facebook project, with which you can call for free. WhatsApp is almost behind the most popular Facebook Messenger, so the likelihood that they already enjoy many of your friends, is very high.

WhatsApp allows calls only from the mobile client. The service supports voice and video. Make group calls can not.

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WhatsApp Messenger

Developer: WhatsApp Inc.

Price: Free

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WhatsApp Messenger

Developer: WhatsApp Inc.

Price: Free

6. ICQ

Once ICQ was widely known as a service for short messaging. His client has been installed on the vast number of computers, but the project developers have not had time to quickly adapt it to mobile platforms. Therefore ICQ lost the competition. Now the service has a Russian company Mail. Ru, which is trying to regain its former popularity "ICQ".

With the new ICQ you can make audio and video calls from the desktop and mobile clients. In versions of Windows and the service macOS available voice and video conferencing.

ICQ → desktop client