Telephone
Telephone is a Mac SIP softphone that lets you place and receive internet or company-network phone calls from your computer.
What is Telephone?
Telephone is a native Mac communication app for making and receiving phone calls over the Internet or a company network using SIP. It is designed for people who already have a SIP account through a VoIP provider, office phone system, or hosted PBX and want to use their Mac as a desk-phone alternative. The app supports everyday calling tasks such as handling multiple accounts, viewing call history, muting or holding calls, transferring calls, and responding to call waiting. It can also open sip: and tel: links, which helps when dialing from websites, documents, or other apps. Telephone includes support for encrypted calling when your SIP service is configured to use secure transport. Published by 64 Characters, it fits business calling, remote work, and office communication workflows on macOS.
Key features
- Make and receive SIP calls on a Mac over the Internet or a company network
- Use multiple SIP accounts in one app
- Mute, hold, transfer, and manage call waiting during calls
- Dial from sip: and tel: links in other apps and web pages
- Review call history and recent calls
- Send touch-tone digits from the keyboard during active calls
- Use encrypted calling when your SIP setup supports TLS and SRTP
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Telephone is legitimate VoIP calling software for macOS. It may need access to your microphone, contacts, and notifications so you can place calls, use contact lookup, and handle incoming calls normally. Call details and account settings are sensitive, so use a trusted SIP provider and enable encrypted transport if your provider supports it. Removing the app will stop calling features on your Mac, but it should not affect your phone service account itself.
Recommendation: Keep Telephone if you use a SIP-based phone service or office phone system on your Mac. If you no longer make calls with it, you can remove it like other apps, and only its local settings and history on this Mac may be lost.
Common paths
/Applications/Telephone.app
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.tlphn.Telephone
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