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Empathy vs Telephone

A side-by-side look at Empathy and Telephone. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Empathy

Empathy

Social & Communications

Empathy is an open source instant messaging client that supports text, voice and video chat. It uses the Telepathy framework and integrates with the GNOME desktop environment. Empathy supports popular protocols like XMPP, IRC, Facebook Messenger, and more.

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Telephone

Telephone

Social & Communications

Telephone is an open source SIP softphone and VoIP client for making audio and video calls over the internet. It supports standard telephony features like call waiting, call forwarding and voicemail.

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