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Ten open-source Sip clients – features overview – November 2011

The table provides feature overview of ten open source SIP clients:

 

SIP clients Jitsi Blink Lite microSIP Sfl phone QuteCom Ekiga Linphone SIPDroid csipsimple Twinkle
www jitsi.org icanblink.com microsip.org.ua sflphone.org qutecom.org ekiga.org linphone.org sipdroid.org code.google.com/p/csipsimple twinklephone.com
License LGPLv3 GPLv3 GPL GPLv3 GPL GPL GPLv2 GPLv3 GPL GPL
Release 1.0-beta1-3689 0.2.7 1.8.2 0.9.13 2.2.1  3.2.7  3.4.3 2.3 0.2.3  1.4.2 
Date 4.10.2011 25.5.2011 15.10.2011 5.4.2011 9.5.2011 31.5.2010 25.3.2011 24.6.2011 19.6.2011 25.2.2009
Operating system Win, Linux, Mac X Win, Linux, Mac Win Linux Linux, Mac OS, Win,  Linux, Win Linux, Win, Mac, Android, WebOS Android Android Linux
Multiple accounts Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes
Audio Yes
G722, G728, speex, GSM, iLBC, PCMU, PCMA, DVI4
Yes
G722, speex, GSM, iLBC, PCMU, PCMA
Yes
Speex, PCMU, PCMA, GSM, iLBC, SILK, G.722
Yes
G722, speex, GSM, PCMU, PCMA, celt
Yes
 iLBC, PCMA, PCMU, G.722,
Licensed: AMR, AMR-WB, G.729
Yes
G722, G728, G726, G721speex, GSM, PCMU, PCMA, celt
Yes
speex, GSM, PCMU, PCMA, G.722
Yes
G.722HD, PCMU, PCMA, speex, GSM, BV16
Yes
 Speex, PCMU, PCMA, GSM, iLBC, SILK,G.722
Yes
G726, PCMU, PCMA, GSM, speex
Video Yes
H264, H263
No No No Yes
H.263
Yes
H264, H263, H261, theora
Yes
 H264, H263, H263-1998, MPEG4, theora
Yes No No
DNS SRV/NAPTR Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
SIMPLE Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No
IM Page/session mode Page mode Page mode Page mode Page mode Page mode Page mode Page mode
XCAP Yes Yes No No No No No No
TLS Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No
Media encryption/ Key manag. SRTP/ZRTP, MIKEY on progress SRTP SRTP SRTP/ZRTP SRTP/ key exchange over Everbee No No SRTP/ZRTP SRTP
NAT No ICE STUN, ICE STUN STUN STUN STUN STUN, ICE STUN
Communication protocols SIP, XMPP, AIM/ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! SIP SIP SIP, IAX SIP,  MSN, YIM, AIM, ICQ, XMPP SIP, H.323 SIP SIP SIP SIP
Transport protocols TCP, TLS, UDP TCP, TLS, UDP TCP, TLS, UDP UDP, TLS/SSL UDP UDP UDP, TCP, TLS UDP, TCP UDP, TCO, TLS UDP, TCP
IPv4/IPv6 Yes/Yes Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No Yes/Yes Yes/No
Voicemail Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
Other features desktop sharing, voicemail, call recording,multi party conferencing File transfer, desktop sharing, voicemail, call recording, multi party conferencing   call recording, multi party conferencing     3 way conferencing
Notes   Under win 7 and linux there are no services like presence, chat, IM available   Simple client   Under win 7 observed problems with stability  Under win 7/linux observed problems with stability      Advanced configuration options
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