{"id":43207261,"title":"Ask HN: Skype alternative?","points":3,"user":"Kaibeezy","time":1740759242,"time_ago":"12 hours ago","type":"link","content":"

I use it to make inexpensive international calls from multiple devices, mainly to/from US/UK. It's cheap and lets me use my regular number as the caller ID. I have looked for alternatives a few times over the years and always ended up slouching along with Skype. TIA","comments":[{"id":43207398,"user":"Kaibeezy","time":1740759993,"time_ago":"12 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Related discussion came up in December when Skype killed credits. Posting helpful threads. Based on the below, looking at Tello, Dialpad, Viber - Viber seems like the winner.

- https://www.reddit.com/r/skype/comments/1h8r7a9/alternatives...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/1hh8yyc/now_t...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/1iehv3p/skype...","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":0,"url":"item?id=43207398"},{"id":43212482,"time":1740781538,"time_ago":"6 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"[deleted]","deleted":true,"comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":0,"url":"item?id=43212482"}],"comments_count":2,"url":"item?id=43207261"}