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Wideband audio with SILK, G.722, Speex and Opus.Voice and video calls for SIP and XMPP using H.264 and H.263 or VP8 for video encoding.

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File transfer for XMPP, AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, YIM.

Direct media connection establishment with the ICE protocol.

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However, with the free pricing, that's likely the tradeoff a Jitsi user will have to deal with. As an open source project, Jitsi Desktop isn't beholden to the same quality assurance as other enterprise softphones. There's no real gap in features, and the major difference comes down to the issue of reliability.

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Jitsi Desktop for Mac has the same kind of functionality as most commercial softphones.

If you’re coming from a physical phone with a do not disturb feature, you may find the lack of DND functionality to be annoying. There’s no indication that changing the SIP status affects Jitsi’s phone behavior. The global status also doesn’t affect calling in SIP, so if you change your status to do not disturb, you can still be called. Jitsi gives you the option of adding a profile photo, but after going through the steps to do so, our avatar remained the default profile. This was annoying, in aggregate, with other UI issues. To truly edit a contact, we had to delete the contact and start over. Adding a contact is easy, but we found that once the contact was added, we couldn’t edit it beyond a simple renaming option. The icons are straightforward, but if you can’t quite figure them out, you can hover your cursor over the icons for an explanation. It's easy to grasp the UI once you’re in a call. There may be a way to change this functionality, but it's most likely hidden in the Property Editor, an arcane interface that kept us from attempting adjustments. When you type in a contact's name and hit enter, you’re taken to a new message window rather than calling them outright. Working at a large organization, we find it much easier to just dial a coworker's extension or username, rather than search or scroll through a list of contacts. Jitsi for Mac doesn't display a numeric dialer, but you can click-to-dial contacts from the UI. Jitsi unfortunately doesn't allow this keyboard input. Other softphones allowed us to type the number or SIP address we want to dial on our keyboard and then hit enter. Placing a call and receiving a call are fairly straightforward, once you get an account registered. There isn’t a lot of documentation, so for your next steps you're left to your own devices. Upon first use, the softphone invites you to set up a new account, but this is the last of any promptings on Jitsi's end.

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You’ll still find yourself largely thrown into the deep end after you install the software. The user experience on Jitsi Desktop for Mac hasn’t changed much. There doesn’t seem to be any integration between Slack and Jitsi beyond a standalone video conference product called Jitsi Meet.

Here at OnSIP, we've moved away from XMPP and Jabber because we mostly communicate via Slack. The softphone still loads to a default chat window interface, making it easy to reach contacts quickly and to check their availability if you have XMPP or Jabber.

Jitsi’s UI hasn’t changed appreciably since 2011. The fact that Jitsi is free makes it an appealing option, but can it keep up with other top-rated softphones in terms of functionality and quality? We evaluated Jitsi Desktop for Mac to find out. Jitsi supports a wide range of protocols like Jabber, AIM, ICQ, IRC, and XMPP, but we’re going to concern ourselves predominantly with Jitsi as a SIP client. As the premier open source softphone solution, Jitsi certainly deserves a fresh look.Īlong with programs like Zoiper and Linphone, Jitsi is the cornerstone of the cost-saving softphones, which generally offer get-up-and-go products for placing SIP calls quickly, from install to call. While Jitsi's functionality is fairly similar across platforms, we wanted to review Jitsi for Mac again to see what's changed. We reviewed the desktop softphone app in 2011 and recently in 2017 for Linux. The original review, from which this review derives, predates OnSIP’s desktop app, free to OnSIP users, so is not affected by bias. The following review was conducted in August 2017, using Jitsi Desktop for Mac version.

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