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A softphone is a software program for making telephone calls over the Internet using a general purpose computer, tablet or smartphone, rather than using dedicated hardware. Often a softphone is designed to behave like a traditional telephone, sometimes appearing as an image of a phone with a display panel and buttons with which the user can interact. A softphone is usually used with a headset connected to the sound card of the PC, or as an installed app on your phone. See also: Smartphone
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Acrobits
Product: Acrobits
Company:Acrobits
OS: IOS, Android
Overview: Acrobits is a mobile software development company with a focus on SIP Clients for mobile devices; their SIP client, Acrobits Softphone, is the leading app of it's type on the iTunes App Store.
Bria Mobile
Product: Bria Mobile
Company:CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux (Ubuntu), iOS, Android
Overview: Bria 5 Desktop is a carrier-grade next generation softphone application that enables you to manage your communications easily and efficiently – all from your computer desktop. Replacing or complementing your hard phone, the Bria softphone allows you to make VoIP and Video calls over IP, see when your contacts are available, send Instant Messages and transfer files with ease and efficiency.
Bria Mobile for Andoid and IOS is a highly secure, standards-based mobile VoIP softphone that works over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks.
Using the device’s existing contact list, Bria Android Edition facilitates easy and effective communication management with an intuitive interface. Deskphone-class calling functionality includes the ability to swap between two calls, merge calls and perform attended and unattended transfers.
Bria Teams
Product:Bria Teams
Company:CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android
Overview: Team Communication made EasyBria Teams helps you regain productivity by streamlining all team communications into one application across your devices. With Bria's provisioning, it's easy to get your team talking.
It offers a softphone that helps you gain productivity by streamlining all team communications into one application. It has all the tools you need in one interface, across your devices and can be managed by one simple dashboard.
Dialer+
Product: cd26
Company: cd26
OS: IOS
Overview: Dialer+ is a SIP-based softphone for iPhone , iPod touch and iPad
Standard Phone Features
- Fast Contact Search – Use phone pad to find contacts by names, initials or any part of the numbers.
• iOS 4.0+ Background Support• Supports GSM calls when the network is unavailable or slowly• Multiple Account Support• Auto switch to best service provider when use multiple account• Pre-configured VoIP providers list• Call display• Speakerphone, Mute and Hold• Call history• Contact List and Contact Favorites - leveraging the iPhone Contacts• Ringtones and contact avatars• Multiple incoming Call Support - swap between two active calls; merge and split calls• Audio codecs include G.711,G.722, iLBC ,Speex and GSM, Make an in app purchase to add G.729 for great performance over 3G networks• Support for RFC 2833 DTMF• VPN Support• uPNP Support• iPhone 4 Retina Display Support
See Configuration Details
Ekiga
Product: Ekiga
Company: Ekiga
OS: Windows, Linux
Overview:Ekiga is a software phone and video conferencing application. It allows you to hear and see your friends for free using your computer and Internet. You can also chat with them and see if they are online or not. It works on GNU/Linux and Windows.
More specifically, Ekiga is a VoIP, IP Telephony, and Video Conferencing application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with SIP or H.323 compatible hardware and software.
It supports many audio and video codecs and all modern VoIP features for both SIP and H.323. Ekiga is the first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP, as well as audio and video. Ekiga was formerly known as GnomeMeeting.
Express Talk
Product: Express Talk
Company: NCH Software
OS: Windows, MacOS
Overview: Express Talk works like a telephone to let you make calls through your computer. Call anyone via the internet who also has a softphone installed and if you sign up with a VoIP gateway service company you call regular telephone numbers as well.
With Express Talk you could potentially call someone using their internet IP (eg. 'bob@1.2.3.4') but this is not usually practical. It is much easier to use a friendly address like 'bob@myphoneco.com'. To have this you need to sign up with a SIP proxy service. This is almost always free to signup for and usually requires nothing more than an email address. See our Recommended SIP Service Providers List for a list of options.
Some of the companies also provide gateway services. This means connecting phone calls to ordinary (non internet or analog PSTN) phone lines. These calls tend to be much less expensive particularly for international calls compared to regular long distance charges since they can offer local call rates.
FgVoIP
Product: FgVoIP
Company: FG Microtec
OS: BlackberryOS
Overview: fg's BlackBerry SIP VoIP Client is a feature rich soft phone application for BlackBerry devices. It can register to any SIP VoIP provider or IP/SIP capable PBX using a WiFi connection in office, campus, home, hotel rooms, public hot-spots etc.
Its much like having a BlackBerry desktop phone in your pocket, providing significantly higher overall productivity while at the same time lowering telephony costs.
Experience the freedom of choosing your own VoIP provider whenever you want, wherever you want. All you need is a WiFi network and a VoIP account.
See Configuration Details
Fring
Product: Fring
Company: Fring
OS: Windows, MacOS, IOS, Linux, Android, Symbian
Overview: Fring mobile communication service that gives users internet-rich communication from their mobile phones.
Fring members make FREE video calls, voice calls, live chat to other fringsters and to friends on other social networks.
You can now use your SIP account even from non-SIP enabled phones.
Choose whichever SIP provider you have and in just few clicks, start using this account to make calls to landlines, GSM phones, or to other SIP providers.
Supports Symbian S60, iPhone/ iPod touch, Android, Windows Mobile, MeeGo, Linux, J2MEand proprietary OS.
Fring allows you to easily switch between them, without having to reconfigure your handset through a nightmarish process.
Grandstream Wave
Product: Grandstream Wave
Company: Grandstream
OS: Android & iOS
Overview: Grandstream Wave is a FREE softphone application that allows users to make and receive voice calls through their business or residential SIP accounts on any Android™ device (version 4.0+) from anywhere in the world.
This application supports integration of up to 6 SIP accounts, 6-way voice conferencing, and allows users to monitor their PBX (such as Grandstream's UCM6100 series IP PBX & UCM6510 IP PBX) while utilizing speed dial with up to 24 virtual BLF keys.
Grandstream Wave also supports advanced SIP telephony features including call transfer, LDAP phonebook integration and more.
Jitsi
Product: Jitsi
Company: Jitsi
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Overview: Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, AIM/ICQ, Windows Live, Yahoo! and many other useful features.
Jitsi is an Open Source / Free Software, and is available under the terms of the LGPL.
Kiax
Product: Kiax
Company: Kiax
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Overview: Kiax is a softphone (soft phone, VoIP client) with a simple and comfortable user interface for making VoIP calls to Asterisk PBX. It depends on the iaxclient library to use Asterisk's IAX2 protocol for easy call configuration and audio setup.
See Configuration Details
Linphone
Product: Linphone
Company: Linphone
OS: Windows, Linux, MacOSX, IPhone, Android.
App Storage Consumption: 8.09mb (ability to move app to SD card. Data uses an additional ~0.89mb approx.)
Overview: Linphone is an internet phone or Voice Over IP phone (VoIP). With linphone you can communicate freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging. Linphone makes use of the SIP protocol, an open standard for internet telephony. You can use Linphone with any SIP VoIP operator.
See Configuration Details
NetDial Sip Phone
Product: NetDial Sip Phone
Company: NeoMecca
OS: iOS, Android.
Media5-fone
Product: Media5-fone
Company: Media5 Corporation
OS: Android, iOS
Overview: The Media5-fone is a softphone application that runs on the Android and the iOS Operating System. It is a SIP Client (softphone) that enables users to make and receive VoIP calls, enabling them to use their devices as an IP-PBX phone extension in their office or anywhere else in the world.
MicroSIP
Product: MicroSIP
Company: MicroSIP
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, Linux, macOS
Overview: MicroSIP is a softphone that works on Windows Operating Systems. It is a SIP Client (softphone) that enables users to make and receive VoIP calls, enabling them to use their devices as an IP-PBX phone extension in their office or anywhere else in the world as well as being really easy to configure.
MizuPhone
Product: MizuPhone
Company: Mizutech
OS: Windows
Overview: Mizu SoftPhone is our award winner professional VoIP client application based on the open standard SIP protocol with an easy to use modern interface. With Mizu SoftPhone you can connect to any SIP server on the public internet or on your local area network.
Multiple accounts and multiple SIP server registrations combined with a powerful dial plan can minimize your telecom bills while using the greatest features from the VoIP industry.
Features include built-in encryption, IM, presence, HD Video, history with voice records, skype like voice quality using ultra-wideband codecs and much more.
A free edition is also available based on the same engine as our corporate sip softphone but it has some features disabled (like G.729 and wideband codecs, multiple accounts and file transfer over SIP).
See Configuration Details
NinjaLite
Product: NinjaLite
Company: Global IP Telecommunications
OS: Windows
Overview: Ninja Lite offers Audio- and video telephony for everybody, Ninja features individual skins and ringtones!, Ninja is natively Vista 32bit /64 bit and Windows7 compatible.
See Configuration Details
PhonerLite
Product: PhonerLite
Company: PhonerLite
OS: Windows
Overview: PhonerLite is a clearly arranged application for Windows. PhonerLite enables your PC to use it for internet telephony (VoIP , Voice over IP ). Pre-conditions are a full-duplex sound card , a microphone and speakers (alternativelya headset), an internet connection and a registration at a provider supporting the protocol SIP .PhonerLite supports several SIP profiles, each configurable independently. In thesame way the integrated phone book and call log are easy to use.
PortGo
Product: PortGo
Company: PortSIP Solutions, Inc
OS: Windows (desktop and mobile)
Overview: PortGo is the newest SIP softphone from PortSIP, it's built base on PortSIP VoIP SDK, allowing users to enjoy multimedia communications in a dynamic way.
Featuring an intuitive interface, PortGo is expanding the softphone experience by making it even easier to make VoIP and Video over IP calls, see when your contacts are available and send Instant Messages. PortGo features an IM interface which focuses on your contacts and friends.
QuteCom
Product: QuteCom
Company: QuteCom
OS: Windows,MacOS,Linux
Overview: QuteCom is a community of enthusiasts and developers, creating free software products related to communication over IP. The flagship product of the QuteCom project is a softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place.
SIP Droid
Product: SIP Droid
Company: SIP Droid
OS: Android
App Storage Consumption: 1.85mb (ability to move app to SD card. Data uses an additional ~4kb approx.)
Overview: SIPDroid is a java based, open source SIP client that has recently been developed for use with mobile devices based on Google’s Android platform.
SJPhone
Product: SJPhone
Company: SJ Labs, Inc.
OS: Windows,Windows Mobile
Overview: SJphone is a VOIP softphone that allows you to speak with any other softphone, any stand-alone IP-phone, or using ITSP with any traditional wired or mobile phone.
It supports both SIP and H.323 standards and is fully inter-operable with most major VOIP vendors and ITSP.
Taki
Product: Taki
Company: Taki
OS: BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry PlayBook
Project site:http://taki.sourceforge.net/
App in the AppWorld:http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/130295
Overview: Taki is a native SIP softphone for BlackBerry® PlayBook™ andBlackBerry® 10 platforms.
Main Features:- Multiple SIP accounts support- Multiple simultaneous calls- Call recording- Conference calls- Advanced call control: Transfer, Hold, Mute, Reject, Redial, switchbetween multiple active calls- Speaker phone support- Address book. Integration with local contacts on BlackBerry 10 phones- Comprehensive SIP settings (port binding, outbound proxy, registrar,codecs priority, NAT traversal, STUN, Presence, and more)- Transports: UDP/TCP- Audio codecs: G.711a/u, GSM, iLBC, G.722 (HD), Speex (NB, WB, UWB)- Built for BlackBerry
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Telephone
Product: Telephone
Company: 64 Characters
OS: OS X 10.9 or later
Project site:http://www.64characters.com/telephone/
Mac App Store:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/telephone/id406825478
Overview: Telephone is a fully-featured SIP client with a minimalist user interface.
Main Features:
- Multiple SIP accounts
- Multiple simultaneous calls w/conferencing
- Call control: Transfer, Hold, Mute, Reject, Redial, Call Waiting, multiple active calls
- Speaker phone/headset support (via Mac sound device)
- Integration with Contacts app, dial by name, autocomplete, click to dial
- Send DTMF tones
- Languages: English, German, Russian
X-Lite
Product: X-Lite
Company: CounterPath
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux
Overview: CounterPath's X-Lite helps you seamlessly transition from a traditional phone environment into the world of Voice over IP.
The latest release of X-Lite provides a completely redesigned interface that allows for a contact-centric or dialpad-centric user experience, or a combination of the two. It also provides you with some of the most popular features of our fully loaded Bria and eyeBeam softphones so you can take them for a test drive before you make your purchase.
Having a simple voice conversation, you’ll soon see why having a softphone on your desktop or laptop is the ultimate communications experience.
ZoiPer
Product: ZoiPer
Company: ZoiPer
OS: Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS
Overview: IAX & SIP multilanguage softphone is a VoIP soft client, meant to work with any IP-based communications systems and infrastructure.
Zoiper is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports the following languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Magyar.
- See Configuration Details for Zoiper Classic for PC/MAC
- See Configuration Details for ZoiPer 5 for PC/MAC
- See Configuration Details for android
- See Configuration Details for iOS
ZoiPer Communicator
Product: Zoiper Communicator
Company: Zoiper
OS: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Solaris
Overview: Zoiper Communicator IAX & SIP softphone is a converged Internet communication tool combining high-quality voice and video calls, fax, instant messaging and presence through a contact-centric intuitive interface.
How would you communicate with a device when you don’t have the IP?
You might be in a situation where you don’t have the IP address of a device in a local network, but all you have is records of the MAC or hardware address.
Or your computer is unable to display its IP due to various reasons, and you are getting a “No Valid IP Address” error.
Finding the IP from a known MAC address should be the task of a ReverseARP application, the counterpart of ARP.
But RARP is an obsolete protocol with many disadvantages, so it was quickly replaced by other protocols like BOOTP and DHCP, which deal directly with IP addresses.
In this article, we’ll show you how to find IPs and device vendors using MAC addresses with different methods for free.
Understanding ARP
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is the protocol in charge of finding MAC addresses with IPs in local network segments.
It operates with frames on the data link layer.
As you might already know, devices in the data link layer depend on MAC addresses for their communication.
Their frames encapsulate packets that contain IP address information.
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A device must know the destination MAC address to communicate locally through media types like Ethernet or Wifi, in layer 2 of the OSI model.
Understanding how ARP works can help you find IPs and MAC addresses quickly.
The following message flow diagram can help you understand the concept:
- The local computer sends a ping (ICMP echo request) to a destination IP address (remote computer) within the same segment. Unfortunately, the local computer does not know the MAC address… it only knows the IP address.
- The destination hardware address is unknown, so the ICMP echo request is put on hold. The local computer only knows its source/destination IP and its source MAC addresses. ARP uses two types of messages, ARP Request and Reply.
The local computer sends an ARP REQUEST message to find the owner of the IP address in question.
This message is sent to all devices within the same segment or LAN through a broadcast MAC (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) as the destination.
- Because the remote computer is part of the same network segment, it receives the broadcast message sent by the local computer. All other computers in the LAN also receive the broadcast but they know that the destination IP is not theirs, so they discard the packet. Only the remote computer with destination IP, responds to the ARP REQUEST with an ARP REPLY, which contains the target MAC address.
- The local computer receives the ARP REPLY with the MAC address. It then resumes the ICMP echo request, and finally, the remote computer responds with an ICMP echo reply.
Finding IPs with ARP
You can use ARP to obtain an IP from a known MAC address.
But first, it is important to update your local ARP table in order to get information from all devices in the network.
Send a ping (ICMP echo reply) to the entire LAN, to get all the MAC entries on the table.
To ping the entire LAN, you can send a broadcast to your network.
Open the Command Prompt in Windows or terminal in macOS and type.
ping 192.168.0.255
My subnet is 192.168.0.0/24 (mask of 255.255.255.0), so the broadcast address is 192.168.0.255 which can be calculated or found with a “Print Route” command in Windows or a “netstat -nr” in macOS. Or can also be obtained with a subnet calculator.
For Windows:
Step 1.
- Open the CMD (Command Prompt)
- Go to the “Start” menu and select “Run” or press (Windows key + R) to open the Run application
- In the “Open” textbox type “cmd” and press “Ok”.
This will open the command-line interface in Windows.
Step 2.
- Enter the “arp” command.
- The arp command without any additional arguments will give you a list of options that you can use.
Step 3.
- Use the arp with additional arguments to find the IP within the same network segment.
- With the command “arp -a” you can see the ARP table and its entries recently populated by your computer with the broadcast ping.
Step 4.
- Reading the output.
- The information displayed in the arp-a is basically the ARP table on your computer.
- It shows a list with IP addresses, their corresponding physical address (or MAC), and the type of allocation (dynamic or static).
Let’s say you have the MAC address 60-30-d4-76-b8-c8 (which is a macOS device) and you want to know the IP.
From the results shown above, you can map the MAC address to the IP address in the same line.
The IP Address is 192.168.0.102 (which is in the same network segment) belongs to 60-30-d4-76-b8-c8.
You can forget about those 224.0.0.x and 239.0.0.x addresses, as they are multicast IPs.
For macOS:
Step 1:
- Open the Terminal App. go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal or Launchpad > Other > Terminal.
Step 2:
- Enter the “arp” command with an “-a” flag.
- Once you enter the command “arp -a” you’ll receive a list with all ARP entries to the ARP Table in your computer.
- The output will show a line with the IP address followed by the MAC address, the interface, and the allocation type (dynamic/static).
Finding IPs with the DHCP Server
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is the network protocol used by TCP/IP to dynamically allocate IP addresses and other characteristics to devices in a network.
The DHCP works with a client/server mode.
The DHCP server is the device in charge of assigning IP addresses in a network, and the client is usually your computer.
For home networks or LANs, the DHCP Server is typically a router or gateway.
If you have access to the DHCP Server, you can view all relationships with IPs, MACs, interfaces, name of the device, and lease time in your LAN.
Step 1.
- Log into the DHCP Server. In this example, the DHCP server is the home gateway.
- If you don’t know the IP address of your DHCP Server/ Gateway, you can run an ipconfig (in Windows) or ifconfig (in macOS/Linux).
- This particular DHCP Server/Gateway has a web interface.
Step 2.
- Enter the IP address on the search bar of the web browser, and input the right credentials.
Step 3.
- Find the DHCP Clients List.
- In this TP-Link router, the DHCP Server functionality comes as an additional feature.
- Go to DHCP > DHCP Clients List. From this list, you can see the mapping between MAC addresses and their assigned IPs.
Using Sniffers
If you couldn’t find the IP in the ARP list or unfortunately don’t have access to the DHCP Server, as a last resort, you can use a sniffer.
Packet sniffers or network analyzers like Nmap (or Zenmap which is the GUI version) are designed for network security.
They can help identify attacks and vulnerabilities in the network.
With Nmap, you can actively scan your entire network and find IPs, ports, protocols, MACs, etc.
If you are trying to find the IP from a known MAC with a sniffer like Nmap, look for the MAC address within the scan results.
How to find the Device and IP with a Sniffer?
Step 1.
- Keep records of your network IP address information.
- In this case, my network IP is 192.168.0.0/24. If you don’t know it, a quick “ipconfig” in Windows cmd or an “ifconfig” in macOS or Linux terminal can show you the local IP and mask.
- If you can’t subnet, go online to a subnet calculator and find your network IP.
Step 2.
- Download and open Nmap.
- Download Nmap from this official link https://nmap.org/download.html and follow its straightforward installation process.
Step 3.
- Open Nmap (or Zenmap) and use the command “sudo nmap -sn (network IP)” to scan the entire network (without port scan).
- The command will list machines that respond to the Ping and will include their MAC address along with the vendor.
- Don’t forget the “sudo” command.
- Without it, you will not see MAC addresses.
Finding out the device vendor from a MAC address
Ok, so now you were able to find out the IP address using “arp -a” command or through the DHCP Server.
But what if you want to know more details about that particular device?
What vendor is it?
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Your network segment or LAN might be full of different devices, from computers, firewalls, routers, mobiles, printers, TVs, etc.
And MAC addresses contain key information for knowing more details about each network device.
First, it is essential to understand the format of the MAC address.
Traditional MAC addresses are 48 bits represented in 12-digit hexadecimal numbers (or six octets).
The first half of the six octets represent the Organizational Unique Identifier (OUI) and the other half is the Network Interface Controller (NIC) which is unique for every device in the world.
There is not much we can do about the NIC, other than communicating with it.
But the OUI can give us useful information about the vendor if you didn’t use Nmap, which can also give you the hardware vendor.
A free online OUI lookup tool like Wireshark OUI Lookup can help you with this.
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Just enter the MAC address on the OUI search, and the tool will look at the first three octets and correlate with its manufacturing database.
Final Words
Although the RARP (the counterpart of ARP) was specifically designed to find IPs from MAC addresses, it was quickly discontinued because it had many drawbacks.
RARP was quickly replaced by DHCP and BOOTP.
But ARP is still one of the core functions of the IP layer in the TCP/IP protocol stack.
It finds MAC addresses from known IPs, which is most common in today’s communications.
ARP works under the hood to keep a frequently used list of MACs and IPs.
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But you can also use it to see the current mappings with the command arp -a.
Aside from ARP, you can also use DHCP to view IP information. DHCP Servers are usually in charge of IP assignments.
If you have access to the DHCP server, go into the DHCP Client list and identify the IP with the MAC address.
Finally, you can use a network sniffer like Nmap, scan your entire network, and find IPs, and MACs.
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If you only want to know the vendor, an online OUI lookup like Wireshark can help you find it quickly.