AGEphone vs Aria

AGEphone is a SIP softphone that connects to a compatible Hikari Denwa home gateway, letting a smartphone serve as an extension of a household phone. The free edition is for personal use and is listed for iOS, Android, and Windows; business use is offered through AGEphone Cloud or AGEphone Business. AGEphone Cloud turns smartphones and PCs into business phone extensions for remote work and larger deployments, with versions for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Listed calling tools include hold, transfer, group calls, call history, missed-call alerts, speed dial, and playback of standard call recordings. Cloud integrations include PHONE APPLI PEOPLE, +Phonebook Cloud, +Reception Cloud, and ACALL, each requiring its own subscription. AGEphone Business supports CRM integration through an API and can be controlled from a web service. AGEphone Cloud lists signaling and audio encryption, single sign-on, remote configuration updates, remote lockout, and disaster recovery across geographically separate SIP servers. The free plan costs 0.00 USD per Free edition, for personal use only.

Aria is a native SIP softphone for connecting to standards-compliant SIP servers. It handles inbound and outbound calls, mute, hold, transfers, DTMF, presence, contacts, and call history. Audio support includes Opus up to 48 kHz, G.711, an adaptive jitter buffer, and local WAV recording. Desktop downloads are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with signed installers and in-app updates. The maker says iOS and Android apps are in testing and have no releases yet. A self-hosted push gateway is required for mobile apps to receive incoming calls in the background. Aria names Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, and 3CX as compatible server examples and also works with the maker's AriaRoute hosted PBX. The privacy policy says it has no telemetry or analytics and stores credentials, contacts, call history, and recordings locally. SIP signalling can use TLS and media SRTP, but the maker says this is not end-to-end encryption. Aria is free for personal and non-commercial use; business use requires a separate commercial licence.