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Is there anything currently that works similarly without a google or Facebook account? My dad is so computer/phone illiterate that he cannot/won't register for
by serpix 10y ago
Is there anything currently that works similarly without a google or Facebook account? My dad is so computer/phone illiterate that he cannot/won't register for either of these.
It should work across iPhone/Android.
I ask because video calling between my son and my dad is no longer as simple as FaceTime after I switched to Android
- thewhitetulip 10y agoI think there is something called imo in which video conferencing works in 2G network
- thewhitetulip 10y agoWhy the down vote? There actually is an app called "imo" which does both text and video chat in skew speed network
- escap 10y agoboth wechat or line do video and/or audio call on iPhone/Android.
- witty_username 10y agoSome searching yielded https://appear.in/ https://appear.in/ (I'm not affiliated with that website)
- spdionis 10y agoWhich by the way works very well for our daily meetings.
- sealjam 10y agoSeconded, I've been very impressed with this service.
- lozf 10y agoAppear.in is great, but like all the other WebRTC chat services, you still need to use another method of communication to notify the other part(y/ies) of the call either by phone, SMS, IM, email, IRC etc. so they can then click the link to your chat and grant their browser permission to use their mic and/or camera, IF their browser is up-to-date enough, and not Safari. ... That's what makes these otherwise perfect services suboptimal for the majority of non-techies.
- ipsum2 10y agoDuo doesn't require a Google account. From the article: > Duo is simple from start to finish. To get started, all you need is your phone number and you’ll be able to reach people in your phone’s contacts list. No separate account is required, so you can sign up in just a few steps.
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- tdkl 10y agoYou could try Viber, it requires a phone number login though.
- newscracker 10y agoI had suggested Wire [1] in a comment above [2]. It's cross platform, has cross device sync, and end-to-end encryption. Sign up can be using the phone number or an email address. [1]: https://www.wire.com https://www.wire.com [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296477