Alternatives to Baresip
A portable, modular SIP user agent for audio and video calls, run from the command line. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Baresip
A portable, modular SIP user agent for audio and video calls, run from the command line.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Baresip.
Linphone
An open-source SIP softphone for voice and video calls on desktop and mobile.
Linphone is an open-source SIP softphone with graphical desktop and mobile builds, and the project offers a free SIP service, so it suits people who do not want a command line.
Zoiper
A SIP softphone for making VoIP voice and video calls through a PBX or SIP provider.
Zoiper provides native graphical apps on desktop and mobile with TLS, SRTP and ZRTP encryption, but it is proprietary and some features sit in paid editions.
MicroSIP
A lightweight open-source SIP softphone for Windows that makes voice and video calls through SIP providers.
MicroSIP is a lightweight open-source SIP softphone with a graphical interface for voice and video calls, but it runs only on Windows and has no mobile apps.
Jami
A fully peer-to-peer communication platform with no servers relaying your data and no personal information needed to sign up.
Jami works mainly as a peer-to-peer messaging and calling app with no servers, and includes a SIP client alongside chat, video conferences and screen sharing in one desktop app.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Asterisk
An open-source telephony server for building your own PBX and VoIP phone systems.
FreeSWITCH
A self-hosted software telephony platform for voice, video and chat that runs on commodity hardware.
FusionPBX
A self-hosted web interface and platform for running a multi-tenant PBX on FreeSWITCH.
3CX Free Basic
A free edition of the 3CX business phone system for up to 10 users on your own infrastructure.
