AirMessage vs baresip+
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
AirMessage
Apple's messaging network iMessage has gained a lot of popularity in recent years, though it has long been locked down to their platforms. But now, AirMessage makes it easy to send and receive messages to your friends and family through group chats, images, videos and audio messages! - Send and receive messages over iMessage - Chat together with your friends in groups - Share images, videos, documents and more - Enjoy a clean, beautiful messaging experience The F-Droid release of AirMessage for Android excludes certain features found in the main release, such as Sign In with Google and location attachments. Please note that a Mac computer is required to use this app.
baresip+
This is a baresip based SIP User Agent application for Android. Currently baresip+ app supports voice/video calling, voice conferences, text messaging, voicemail Message Waiting Indication, as well as blind and attended call transfers. Voice can be codec with Opus, AMR, Codec2, G.729, G.726, G.722, G.722.1, and PCMU/PCMA, codecs. Video can be coded with VP9, VP8, H.265, H.264, and AV1 codecs. Security is achieved via TLS or WSS signalling transport and ZRTP or (DTLS) SRTP media encapsulation. Motivated by need for a secure SIP user agent for Android that does not depend on third party push notification services. This application can be installed on Android devices running Android version 9 or later. Source code is available at GitHub, where also issues can be reported.
| Feature | AirMessage | baresip+ |
|---|---|---|
| License | Apache-2.0 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | SMSMessagingBrowser | SMSMessagingBrowser |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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