Name: Whistle Phone
Rating: 2.875 (6 reviews)

Free

In-app purchases

Whistle Phone overview

Whistle Phone brings free inbound and outbound calling in the contiguous US to your Mac. We also offer international calling at low rates.

Features

Make and take calls from your desktop or mark yourself as unavailable
Choose your look and feel from seven different skins
Has built-in integration with your Mac's Address Book
Includes two-line calling features, including call waiting and three-way calling
Forwards your Whistle calls to any phone number via our Follow Me service
Utilizes Apple's Bonjour technology to automatically discover and call Whistle users on your WiFi network
Integrates with Growl for customizable missed-call notifications

And, one note: Your best experience is going to be with headphones. Using the built-in speakers and mic at the same time may cause echo.

Note: This application contains in-app and/or external module purchases.

What’s new in version 1.53

Updated on Feb 25 2021

Version 1.53:

Native application for Apple Silicon
Added an option to automatically select new audio devices (e.g. Bluetooth headsets) connected to the host
Fixed window position restoration in cases where the screen size may have changed
If Whistle Phone is hidden in the dock, it will now make itself visible when requesting a password
Dark mode support
Improved reliability of DTMF entry
Disabled iTunes control preference on macOS 10.15+ as this API is no longer available
Updated VoIP internals

Information

License

Free

Size

7.4 MB

Developer’s website

https://www.whistlephone.com

Downloads

13693

App requirements

Intel 64
Apple Silicon
Mac OS X macOS 10.12 or later

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neartheredrocks

Aug 23 2014

1.45

0.5

Version: 1.45

"Free phone calls" seems to be simply not true. For me a phone call is a call to a phone number and all this application offers for free are calls from one registered user to another registered user (of which there are probably rather few). In other words: it is something like a completely irrelevant competition to Skype or FaceTime.

bbw7

May 2 2013

1.42

Version: 1.42

From the developer's website, it appears that this is not actually free, although a limited (20 minutes of talking) 1-month trial is free. So yes, the app itself is free, but the service isn't.

Leigh4

Jul 9 2012

1.32

Version: 1.32

Great

JamesHarrisPhoto

Jul 4 2012

3.0

I give this app 4 stars or more across the board, because it worked well and it was very convenient being able to make a call from my MacBook. But the overall score of 3 stars are for my gripe with the company itself. I stopped using this only because I didn't use it all the time, and was getting nag emails to use it or lose it. They provide you with a free local phone number, and I had given that out to several people. Then I went on a photo assignment in Ukraine, and when I came back I had an email saying that they were going to reclaim the phone number because I hadn't used it in a while. I can see why they might need to do this, but they should make it a longer time period. I don't think 6 months would be unreasonable?

Mac5

Like so many other developers who create some nice apps for Mac users... but forget that there are many hundreds of thousands of Mac users who do not live in the USA. They are missing a huge market when they choose to ignore those of us who do not live in the USA, but still use a Mac.

D-Spinney

Feb 21 2011

1.24

Version: 1.24

Too bad it's only available in the App store.