Comparison

VirtualPBX Softphone vs SipPulse Softphone

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • VoIP calling over data connection
  • Company Caller ID
  • Call recording
  • Voicemail to email
  • Real-time call logs
  • Custom greetings and hold music
Features
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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.

About

SipPulse Softphone

Transform your iPhone into a professional SIP phone for high-quality voice calls over any data connection. It offers reliable registration, clean call handling, and seamless integration with your existing SIP server without complex setups.

Highlights
  • Full SIP calling with CallKit integration
  • Push-notification wake-up for incoming calls
  • SIP MESSAGE request support
  • Local contact directory with search
  • Detailed call history
  • QR-code provisioning for easy setup
  • TLS signaling and SRTP media for encrypted calls
Features
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SipPulse turns your iPhone into a professional SIP phone. Register with any standards-compliant SIP server and make high-quality voice calls over Wi-Fi, 4G, or 5G — without forwarding, number porting, or monthly per-seat contracts with a third party. Built on PJSIP — the same open-source stack used by millions of deployed SIP endpoints — SipPulse focuses on the three things a softphone has to do perfectly: register reliably, handle calls cleanly, and stay out of the way. CORE FEATURES • Full SIP calling — outbound and inbound voice, with native iOS CallKit integration so incoming calls look and feel like regular phone calls. • Push-notification wake-up — receive calls even when the app is closed or the device is locked. Compliant with RFC 8599 Push Notification Parameters for registrars that support it. • Messaging — send and receive SIP MESSAGE requests alongside your calls. Conversations are grouped by contact and persist across sessions. • Contacts — keep a local directory with favorites, search, and one-tap calling, video, or messaging per contact. • Call history — see every call with direction, duration, and timestamp. Filter by missed, incoming, or outgoing. • QR-code provisioning — scan a provisioning QR from your PBX or admin portal and your account is configured in one step. SECURITY AND QUALITY • TLS signaling and SRTP media for encrypted end-to-end calls (when supported by your server). • HD voice with wideband G.722 when the far end agrees; graceful fallback to PCMU/PCMA on constrained networks. • Automatic NAT handling and SIP keep-alives so registration stays healthy behind carrier NATs. STANDARDS SipPulse works with any SIP 2.0 registrar that speaks RFC 3261 — including OpenSIPS, FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, 3CX, and most hosted cloud PBX providers. UDP, TCP, and TLS transports are all supported. No proprietary lock-in. WHO IT'S FOR • Mobile workers who want their desk extension in their pocket. • IT teams standardizing on a single softphone across a fleet. • Service providers offering white-label softphone apps to customers. • Developers and VoIP professionals who need a reliable reference client on iOS. PRIVACY SipPulse does not collect analytics, does not embed advertising SDKs, and does not share your call metadata with third parties. Your account credentials stay on your device. Questions or feedback? Reach us at info@sippulse.com.

Screenshots

VirtualPBX Softphone4 screens
SipPulse Softphone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: VirtualPBX Softphone at 4.4 against SipPulse Softphone's 3.0. VirtualPBX Softphone also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 37 months) and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

VirtualPBX Softphone holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VirtualPBX Softphone ships an update every 6 months, SipPulse Softphone every 37 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
VirtualPBX Softphone versus SipPulse Softphone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVirtualPBX SoftphoneSipPulse Softphone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (334 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings334 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 37 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVirtual PBXSIPPulse Tecnologia LTDA

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
Show 4 more
  • 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

SipPulse Softphone

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

VirtualPBX Softphone

No in-app purchases

None

SipPulse Softphone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VirtualPBX Softphone free?
VirtualPBX Softphone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SipPulse Softphone free?
SipPulse Softphone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, VirtualPBX Softphone or SipPulse Softphone?
VirtualPBX Softphone is rated higher. VirtualPBX Softphone averages 4.4 out of 5 from 334 ratings, while SipPulse Softphone averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do VirtualPBX Softphone or SipPulse Softphone have ads?
Neither VirtualPBX Softphone nor SipPulse Softphone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VirtualPBX Softphone or SipPulse Softphone?
VirtualPBX Softphone ships an update every 6 months, and SipPulse Softphone every 37 months. Most recently, VirtualPBX Softphone was updated on October 22, 2026 and SipPulse Softphone on October 20, 2026.

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