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Simple vs Skype

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Overview

Skype
Skype
Stacks17.3K
Followers13.5K
Votes653
Simple
Simple
Stacks1.0K
Followers842
Votes6

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Detailed Comparison

Skype
Skype
Simple
Simple

Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.

Time is the most precious resource we have, despite that, most people don't know where all their time goes. With Simple, you’ll see exactly where your time was spent.

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.
Time tracking; Reporting; Earnings; Time management; Task tracking; To-do's
Statistics
Stacks
17.3K
Stacks
1.0K
Followers
13.5K
Followers
842
Votes
653
Votes
6
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
    Birthday notifications are annoying
  • 3
    Outdated UI
  • 3
    Not always reliable
  • 3
    The worst indicator noises of any app ever
Pros
  • 5
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Beautiful UI

What are some alternatives to Skype, Simple?

Discord

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

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

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

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.

Toggl

Toggl

Toggl is an online time-tracking tool. It is popular with freelancers, groups, and small companies all over the world, mostly in US, Canada and UK.

Webex

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.

Everhour

Everhour

Everhour put all the control of your timesheets, budgeting, employee scheduling,
expenses and invoicing in an elegant, beautiful and really useful way.

Viber

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

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

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.

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