Phoner

Phoner and PhonerLite are softphone applications for Windows operating systems available as freeware. Phoner is a multiprotocol telephony application supporting telephony via CAPI, TAPI and VoIP, while PhonerLite provides a specialized and optimized user interface for VoIP only. Beside the different user interface focus both programs share the same code base.

Phoner
Phoner on Windows 7
Developer(s)Heiko Sommerfeldt
Initial releaseFebruary 1998 (1998-02)[1]
Stable release3.22 (25 October 2019 (2019-10-25)) [±][2]
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
Size4.79 MB
Available inEnglish, German
TypeVoIP
LicenseFreeware
Websitephoner.de
PhonerLite
PhonerLite on Windows 10
Initial release1 June 2005 (2005-06-01)
Stable release2.81 (16 July 2020 (2020-07-16)) [±][3]
Size5.61 MB
Available in9 languages
List of languages
Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Websitelite.phoner.de

Both programs use the Session Initiation Protocol for VoIP call signalisation. Calls are supported via server-based infrastructure or direct IP to IP. Media streams are transmitted via the Real-time Transport Protocol which may be encrypted with the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) and the ZRTP security protocols. Phoner provides as well an interface for configuring and using all supplementary ISDN services provided via CAPI and thus needs an ISDN terminal adapter hardware installed in the computer.

Both programs support IPv4 and IPv6 connections by using UDP, TCP and TLS.

Supported audio formats
  • G.711 A-law: 64 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
  • G.711 μ-law: 64 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
  • G.722: 64 kbit/s payload, 16 kHz sampling rate
  • G.726: 16, 24, 32 or 40 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
  • GSM: 13 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
  • iLBC: 13.3 or 15.2 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
  • Speex narrow band: 15 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
  • Speex wide band: 30 kbit/s payload, 16 kHz sampling rate
  • Opus: 10-50 kbit/s, up to 48 kHz sampling rate
  • G.729: 8 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
  • Linear PCM: 705 kbit/s payload, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
gollark: That doesn't sound very good.
gollark: as a package maintainer.
gollark: So do you *still* have to bump dependency versions whenever an update happens?
gollark: `commandlinetoolwhichmanagespackages`
gollark: Can you update *everything* at once?

See also

References
  1. Phoner history
  2. Release history on Phoner download page
  3. Changelog on PhonerLite download page
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