VirtualPBX Softphone vs Blink WebRTC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VirtualPBX Softphone
Transform your smartphone into a powerful business phone system. Make and receive calls using your company's Caller ID, record conversations, and manage voicemails from your email. Enjoy high-quality calls over Wi-Fi or cellular data without using your personal minutes.
- VoIP calling over data connection
- Company Caller ID
- Call recording
- Voicemail to email
- Real-time call logs
- Custom greetings and hold music
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The VirtualPBX Softphone application turns your iPhone into a full-featured VoIP phone in a VirtualPBX phone system. You can receive and make calls over your data connection that enable all of the high-end features available to VirtualPBX VoIP phones, without using your phone's minutes. Audio compression is included at no added cost, providing high-quality calls with 4G, LTE, 5G, or Wi-Fi. Capabilities include: • Outbound calls use your company Caller ID, instead of your personal phone number. • Record both inbound and outbound calls automatically or on-demand. • Centralized business voice messaging, with voicemails sent to your email address. • Real-time reports, logs, and monitoring of all calls with detailed records. • Customized company greetings, voicemail, hold music, and more. • Dial other extensions directly, using just the extension number. • Instant access to your VirtualPBX main menu by pressing just one key. • Enhanced security through VirtualPBX’s unique provisioning system. This app must be registered to a VirtualPBX VoIP system. VirtualPBX is the award-winning hosted PBX service that can make a business-class phone system out of your cell phones and landlines, or can give your company a complete business VoIP phone system based on Internet phone lines. You can even mix and match business VoIP service with mobile phones and landlines to get a custom setup that works perfectly just for you. Features include a custom auto-attendant, follow-me calling, True ACD queues, call recording, voicemail, internet fax, conferencing, and more.
Blink WebRTC
This app provides secure audio and video calls, messaging, and file transfers using the SIP protocol. It supports multiple devices, call recording, and end-to-end encryption for all communications.
- Audio and video calls
- SIP messaging
- Audio call recording
- Advanced file transfers
- End-to-end encryption
- Multiparty conferencing
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Open, federated SIP messaging * 1-to-1 audio and video calls * Receive calls from web browsers * Multiparty conferencing for all media * Telephony features * Rich messaging (remote deletion, editing, replies, reactions) * File sharing to and from other mobile applications * End-to-end encryption for all media (zRTP and PGP) * Location sharing (meet-me, caregiver tracking) * Screen sharing with remote pointer support * Support for phones and tablets in landscape and portrait modes * Synchronization between multiple devices (media and contacts) * History management and data export
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Blink WebRTC at 100% against VirtualPBX Softphone's 47%. Blink WebRTC also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 months). VirtualPBX Softphone's advantage is ratings volume (334 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Blink WebRTC holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VirtualPBX Softphone has 334 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of VirtualPBX Softphone's written reviews are positive against 100% of Blink WebRTC's.
VirtualPBX Softphone ships an update every 6 months, Blink WebRTC every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VirtualPBX Softphone | Blink WebRTC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (334 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 334 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Virtual PBX | AG Projects |
Customer experience
VirtualPBX Softphone
Blink WebRTC
Bugs and requests
VirtualPBX Softphone
Reported bugs
9 issues- Audio doesn't always connect
- Dial pad not working during calls
- Calls drop during connection process
- Incoming calls rarely come through
- Frequent call cut-offs
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- Call quality issues
- App drains battery
- Cannot log in with correct credentials
- Group not found error on login
Requested features
5 requests- Fix dial pad functionality for automated systems
- Improve connection reliability for calls
- Ensure incoming calls come through consistently
- Address call dropping issues during connection
- Invest in app development for paid users
Blink WebRTC
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
VirtualPBX Softphone
No in-app purchases
Blink WebRTC
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is VirtualPBX Softphone free?
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