Dialpad vs Skype

Overview

Skype

Stacks17.3K

Followers13.5K

Votes653

Dialpad

Stacks28

Followers34

Votes0

Dialpad vs Skype: What are the differences?

Dialpad: *A pure-cloud business communication platform *. It is a pure-cloud business communication platform that's in tune with the way your team works . Connect your team with a business communication platform that powers voice, video, messages, and meetings across your existing devices; Skype: Voice calls, instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.

Dialpad and Skype can be primarily classified as "Web and Video Conferencing" tools.

Some of the features offered by Dialpad are:

Voice
message
video

On the other hand, Skype provides the following key features:

Calling- Make free Skype to Skype calls or call mobiles and landlines home and abroad at low rates.
Video- Catch up face to face or get a whole group together on a video call.
Messaging- You're always in the loop with instant messaging, voice messaging and sending texts.

Typeform, Starbucks, and PedidosYa are some of the popular companies that use Skype, whereas Dialpad is used by Sticker Mule, REINGE (@reingeclothing), and The Great Eros. Skype has a broader approval, being mentioned in 991 company stacks & 4130 developers stacks; compared to Dialpad, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on Skype, Dialpad

Lisa

Mar 20, 2020

Needs advice

Hi, I am helping teachers in my kid's schools to set up distance learning and wanted to see what is better between Webex, Zoom, and Skype (although only putting this one in as most parents probably have it). The children are 8-9, so they won't be using it on their own and the parents have no experience using Webex or Zoom.

The main use will be for the teacher to explain what they will be covering in the week and enable some social interaction between the kids.

I need to be easy to use for about 20-25 people.

Thanks for your advice, Lisa

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Detailed Comparison

Skype	Dialpad
Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.	It is a pure-cloud business communication platform that's in tune with the way your team works . Connect your team with a business communication platform that powers voice, video, messages, and meetings across your existing devices.
Calling- Make free Skype to Skype calls or call mobiles and landlines home and abroad at low rates.;Video- Catch up face to face or get a whole group together on a video call.;Messaging- You're always in the loop with instant messaging, voice messaging and sending texts.;Sharing- Send photos, videos and files of any size.	Voice; message; video; meetings
Statistics
Stacks 17.3K	Stacks 28
Followers 13.5K	Followers 34
Votes 653	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 258 Free, widespread 147 Desktop and mobile apps 110 Because i have to :( 57 Low cost international calling 56 Good for international calls Cons 5 Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare 3 Outdated UI 3 Birthday notifications are annoying 3 Not always reliable 3 The worst indicator noises of any app ever	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Slack Microsoft 365 G Suite

What are some alternatives to Skype, Dialpad?

Discord

Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.

Zoom

Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Zoom Rooms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems.

Google Meet

It is the business-oriented version of Google's Hangouts platform and is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It allows users to dial in phone numbers to access meetings, thus enabling users with slow internet connection to call in.

Jitsi

Jitsi (acquired by 8x8) is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.

It is a cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media.

Webex

Collaborate with colleagues across your organization, or halfway across the planet. Meet online and share files, information, and expertise. Collaborate from wherever you are with Webex mobile apps for IPhone, iPad, Android, or Blackberry. If you can get online, you can work together.

Viber

It is a cross-platform instant messaging and voice over IP application provided as freeware for the Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS platforms.

Jami

It is a free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users. Its main goal is to provide a communication framework and end-user applications to make audio or video calls, send text messages and make generic data transfers. It makes this possible via multiple paradigms: a modern decentralized approach using a DHT to find peers or classical centralized SIP as a soft-phone.

WebRTC

It is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.

Aircall

Aircall is an app that you can install and setup in a few minutes. It lets you buy one or several phone numbers across the world, add teammates to your dashboard, and place & receive calls on your existing devices. Everything is managed inside the Aircall app.

Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Dialpad are:

Voice
message
video

On the other hand, Skype provides the following key features:

Calling- Make free Skype to Skype calls or call mobiles and landlines home and abroad at low rates.
Video- Catch up face to face or get a whole group together on a video call.
Messaging- You're always in the loop with instant messaging, voice messaging and sending texts.

Dialpad vs Skype