I basically want to talk and send messages and pictures, video call is not really that important.
other foss voip clients not currently on f-droid are welcomed.
WTF, what happened to the built-in VoIP client? I just wanted to give you a quick overview on how to enable it but couldn’t find it. Did they remove it with Android 12 or 13? I’m pretty sure I still had that with Android 11.
Element X. New and improved Matrix client, so E2EE, decentralized, federated, self-hostable, etc.
to use element I need to provide an email address. Do I also need to provide a valid phone number?
No, you don’t. Element is a client for Matrix and Matrix doesn’t use phone numbers.
Check out jmp.chat for use with Cheogram (Conversations xmpp fork).
I use linphone. Not necessarily because it is good, but it works and I have found nothing
betterelse.If you arent particular about it being SIP specifically, Signal is fantastic (though not available on F-Droid because the Signal devs are paranoid about not signing their own code - you can get a direct APK from their site).
Do you want an messenger that has voice calls or do you want a SIP client that you can use with your Landline phone Number?
a messenger with voice calls
I use linphone sometimes. It’s not great but it is usable if you set the codecs to high bandwidth ones. I’ve been wanting to try Jami but haven’t yet bothered.
Follow-up question… Is there a good guide to setup with voip.ms? Or a good SIP provider for Europe/Asia?
I personnely use telegram FOSS or Mercurygram from fdroid.
F-droid is just one alternative. Do a quack for “f-droid repositories” and make sure to add izzyondroid.
