Comparison

Cloud Softphone vs SimchaCal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cloud Softphone

This application provides a feature-rich VoIP softphone experience with easy account setup through one-touch provisioning. It requires a Cloud Code or QR code for configuration, and users should contact their VoIP provider for credentials.

Highlights
  • Personalized VoIP softphone
  • Feature-packed functionality
  • One-touch provisioning
  • Easy account setup
  • QR code configuration support
Features
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Cloud Softphone is a personalised, feature-packed VoIP Softphone which support one-touch provisioning for easy account setup and configuration. NOTE: You will need to have your Cloud Code or QR code to set up account in the app. Please contact your VoIP provider or pbx administrator to see if they provide login credentials for Cloud Softphone. More information can be found on our support web site.

About

SimchaCal

This app helps you track important Hebrew dates for your family, including birthdays, anniversaries, and yahrzeits. It provides timely reminders and allows you to generate a printable wall calendar with Jewish holidays and candle-lighting times. The app prioritizes privacy, working offline and keeping your data on your device.

Highlights
  • Track Hebrew birthdays, anniversaries, bar/bat mitzvahs, yahrzeits
  • Customizable reminders for important dates
  • View upcoming Jewish holidays and events
  • Printable landscape wall calendar
  • Offline functionality and data privacy
  • Export to phone calendar (.ics) or spreadsheet (.csv)
  • Multi-language support (English, Hebrew, French, Spanish)
Features
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SimchaCal is a simple, private Hebrew calendar for your family's meaningful dates. Add the people who matter and SimchaCal tracks their Hebrew birthdays, anniversaries, bar/bat mitzvahs, and yahrzeits year after year — with reminders so a date never slips by. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Track Hebrew birthdays, anniversaries, bar/bat mitzvahs and yahrzeits • Get reminders 1, 3, or 7 days ahead, and on the day itself • See everything coming up in one Upcoming view — including Yom Tovs and Jewish events • Print a beautiful landscape wall calendar for any year A WALL CALENDAR BUILT FOR JEWISH LIFE • Yom Tovs, Rosh Chodesh, fasts and national days, drawn live and always accurate • Shabbat and holiday candle-lighting and havdalah times for your city • The weekly Parsha on every Shabbat • The Omer count and Yizkor days • Erev Pesach times (end of eating and burning chametz) • Choose your own colors, fonts, and decorations ISRAEL OR DIASPORA Pick your city and SimchaCal follows the right schedule — one-day festivals in Israel, two-day in the Diaspora — and the correct candle-lighting and havdalah times. YOURS, AND PRIVATE • Works fully offline — no account, no sign-up, no tracking • Your data stays on your device • Export to your phone's calendar (.ics) or a spreadsheet (.csv), with the option to include Yom Tovs • Back up and restore everything as a single file IN FOUR LANGUAGES English, Hebrew, French, and Spanish, with full right-to-left support for Hebrew. Always confirm candle-lighting and halachic times with your local community.

Screenshots

Cloud Softphone3 screens
SimchaCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SimchaCal at 100% against Cloud Softphone's 33%. SimchaCal also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). Cloud Softphone's advantage is ratings volume (77 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cloud Softphone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SimchaCal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SimchaCal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cloud Softphone has 77 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Cloud Softphone's written reviews are positive against 100% of SimchaCal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cloud Softphone ships an update weekly, SimchaCal every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cloud Softphone versus SimchaCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloud SoftphoneSimchaCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (77 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings77 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB53 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAlien Licensing GMBHDerek Manoim

Customer experience

Cloud Softphone

All ratings75 ratings
Positive56.0%
Neutral10.7%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral15.3%
Negative51.3%

SimchaCal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cloud Softphone

One-time1
  • G729 Annex A$7.99
1 purchases

SimchaCal

One-time1
  • SimchaCal Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Cloud Softphone free?
Cloud Softphone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SimchaCal free?
SimchaCal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cloud Softphone or SimchaCal?
SimchaCal is rated higher. Cloud Softphone averages 3.5 out of 5 from 77 ratings, while SimchaCal averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cloud Softphone or SimchaCal have ads?
Neither Cloud Softphone nor SimchaCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cloud Softphone or SimchaCal?
Cloud Softphone ships an update weekly, and SimchaCal every 2 weeks. Most recently, Cloud Softphone was updated on September 28, 2026 and SimchaCal on September 21, 2026.

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