Service for free calls should be chosen taking into account its popularity. After all, the more the audience of the project, the higher the chance that your friends use it, and the easier it will be for you to contact them. Therefore, the selection includes services that are in greatest demand in Russia, Ukraine and CIS countries.
1. Skype
Skype was one of the first mass services for free calls and was known among computer users before the era of smartphones. The success of the project attracted Microsoft, which acquired Skype and poured new forces into its development. Now Skype is available on all modern platforms and is on the list of the most popular services for short messages and calls.
The service allows you to call from the desktop and mobile applications. You can also make calls from the browser via the web version of Skype, but for this the service will ask you to install a special plug-in. Skype supports both voice and video calls. You can call one person or arrange a conference with several people.
Desktop client Skype →
Web version of Skype →
2. Viber
Viber can be called the most popular service of online telephony for residents of post-Soviet countries. Historically, most of the smartphone owners in our region have a free voice connection associated with this project.
With Viber, you can make not only audio, but also video calls from the desktop and mobile applications. The conference mode in this service is not yet available. The web version is also missing, so you can not make a call from the browser.
Desktop Client Viber →
3. Facebook Messenger
This service is part of the largest social network, the number of its users exceeds one billion people. Surely you and most of your friends already use it for correspondence on Facebook. In this case, you do not even have to install anything, because using Facebook Messenger you can not only exchange text messages, but also call.
The service supports free calls from the browser (without any plug-ins) and a mobile client. Audio and video communication is available for users. At your service are voice conferences and video chats.
Web version of Facebook Messenger →
4. Telegram
Messenger Telegram is the project of the founder of VKontakte by Pavel Durov. This service is relatively young, but it is rapidly gaining popularity in the world.
Telegram can serve you for free calls from the desktop and mobile applications. The service has a web version, but you can not call it from now. With Telegram, you can make only voice calls and talk with only one subscriber at a time.
Desktop client Telegram →
5. WhatsApp
Another Facebook project, with which you can make free calls. WhatsApp almost does not lag behind the most popular Facebook Messenger, so the likelihood that they are already used by many of your friends is very great.
WhatsApp allows you to call only from a mobile client. The service supports voice and video communication. You can not make group calls.
6. ICQ
Once ICQ was widely known as a service for the exchange of short messages. His client was installed on a huge number of computers, but the developers of the project did not have time to quickly adapt it for mobile platforms. Therefore, ICQ lost itself against the background of competitors. Now the service is owned by the Russian company Mail.Ru, which is trying to restore the former popularity of ICQ.
With the help of the new ICQ you can make audio and video calls from desktop and mobile clients. In versions of the service for Windows and macOS, voice and video conferences are available.
Desktop client ICQ →
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