Vonage Home Extensions vs Ooma Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vonage Home Extensions
This app extends your home VoIP phone service to your smartphone. Make and receive calls using your home number, save on international calls, and avoid roaming charges. It integrates with your contacts for easy dialing and offers features like Do Not Disturb and call blocking.
- Make/receive calls on iPhone using home number
- Calls ring on multiple smartphones simultaneously
- VoIP for business and home phone service
- Save on international calls
- Use Wi-Fi calling to save cell minutes
- Caller ID shows Vonage number
- Block unwanted calls
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Your new Vonage VoIP phone service is here. And you can take it anywhere. As a Vonage Customer the Extensions app brings your home phone to your iPhone. Download now and you can make and receive home phone calls on up to two phones over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G. (Push Notifications required) Features • Make calls from your Vonage home number on your iPhone (New) • Calls to your home phone ring on up to two smartphones at the same time -answer whichever one is more convenient (New) • VoIP allows for business and home phone service, or calls on the move • Save with your Vonage internet calling plan wherever you are – unlimited international calling to 60+ countries with some plans • Use WiFi calling to make online phone calls and save cell minutes, avoid roaming charges when abroad and reach people when there’s poor coverage • Know who is calling you on your Vonage number - the app will use your contact book to tell you who is calling • Uses your contact book for easy, one touch dialing • Do Not Disturb – Easily turn on and off calls to the app (New) • Keep your mobile number private – Caller ID will show your Vonage number. (New) • Choose which number to display as your Caller ID – Home or Mobile. • Block unwanted calls to your Vonage line from your Recents or Call Settings. (New) • Boomerang - for international callers. No more missed call & callback frustration. Automatically connects to selected contacts using YOUR Vonage VoIP number - at no charge to them! (New) Getting Started • Download the Vonage Extensions VoIP app to your iPhone • Enter your mobile number, your Vonage VoIP phone number and your account password. • View the tour and accept push notifications to receive inbound calls. Note: Vonage VoIP service required. * Reasonable Use Policy applies to unlimited calling. Extensions® usage is combined with home phone usage under the policy. See www.vonage.com/reasonable_use_policy from more details. Calls made from mobiles may use airtime and incur charges, depending on your mobile plan. Pat: http://www.vonage.com/corporate/press_patents.php
Ooma Connect
Manage your Ooma Connect hardware and services with this companion app. Access installation guides, monitor device status and connectivity, and view detailed adapter information. It also provides real-time and historical signal strength data.
- Installation guides
- Device status monitoring
- Connectivity status
- Connect 460 Adapter details
- Real-time signal strength
- Historic signal strength
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The Ooma Connect app is a companion for the Ooma Connect hardware and services. Login with your Ooma Office admin (not end user/extension) credentials. Use Ooma Connect app to access: -easy to follow installation guides -status and connectivity of your devices -advanced details about Connect 460 Adapter -signal strength information in the real time and in a historic perspective -traffic usage (coming soon) -our friendly and helpful Customer Support More changes and improvements are coming soon. Please email to office-app-feedback@ooma.com if you have suggestions or ideas on how to make this app better. P.S. You can't make calls with Ooma Connect app. Please download Ooma Office or Ooma Residential apps for calling purposes. P.P.S In some of our manuals the app may be referenced as "Ooma Office Administrator app". We have shorten and updated the name to better describe current functionality.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Vonage Home Extensions at 4.7K against Ooma Connect's 21. Vonage Home Extensions also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Ooma Connect's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ooma Connect holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vonage Home Extensions has 4.7K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Vonage Home Extensions ships an update every 6 weeks, Ooma Connect every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vonage Home Extensions | Ooma Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (4.7K ratings) | 4.6 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.7K — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vonage | Ooma Inc. |
Customer experience
Vonage Home Extensions
Ooma Connect
Bugs and requests
Vonage Home Extensions
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Incoming calls not ringing on mobile
- Touchpad/keypad not working during calls
- Caller ID not displaying properly
- Recent calls not updating or syncing
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to customize ringtones
- Improved call log/recent calls functionality
- Better integration with mobile contacts
- Support for more devices and OS versions
Ooma Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vonage Home Extensions
No in-app purchases
Ooma Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
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