Blink
A state of the art, easy to use SIP client
Available for Mac, Windows and Linux

Features

Blink is a Graphical User Interface on MacOSX, Windows and Linux for SIP SIMPLE client SDK.

An overview of the implemented standards is available here.

A list of user-requested features are listed here.

Note: Blink Cocoa was designed to run on MacOSX 10.5 Leopard and MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. Blink Cocoa has been replaced with Blink Lite and Blink Pro, which are now distributed through the Mac App Store and are compatibe with MacOSX Snow Leopard and Lion.

Blink Cocoa 0.24

Blink Cocoa is designed to run on MacOSX 10.5 Leopard and MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Blink Qt

Blink Qt is designed to work on Linux OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

General

  • Support for multiple SIP accounts
  • Detection of IP address changes
  • SIP account sign-up at http://sip2sip.info
  • Bonjour discovery mechanism
  • Integration with MacOSX Address Book (MacOSX)
  • Integration with Google contacts (Windows and Linux)

Audio Sessions

  • Supported codecs: G722, Speex, G711, GSM and iLBC
  • Multiple parallel calls
  • Silent mode (do not ring on incoming call)
  • Mute microphone
  • Audio recording
  • Displays packet loss and round trip time
  • Displays selected audio codec and sampling rate
  • Control for input, output and alert audio devices
  • Detection for addition and removal of audio devices (MacOSX and Windows only)
  • Voicemail Message Waiting Indicator (MWI)
  • Answering machine
  • Displays RTP end-point information
  • Automatically play and resume iTunes

Dialing Out

  • Support for SIP addresses and telephone numbers
  • Strip unwanted characters from telephone numbers: (0) blocks, spaces, - and ()
  • Replace leading + from PSTN numbers with a custom prefix per account
  • Redial last call

Audio Conferencing

  • Multi-party conferencing with unlimited number of participants
  • Drag and Drop contacts to conferences
  • Multiple simultaneous conferences (Windows and Linux only)

Accept/Reject Calls

  • Display the caller icon and name retrieved from Address Book
  • Reject calls with 486 Busy (other devices keep ringing) or 603 Decline (all devices stop ringing)

Missed Calls

  • History
  • One click Dial from the History menu
  • Growl notifications

Chat Sessions

  • Based on MSRP protocol with TLS and relay support
  • Tabs for separate sessions and detachable windows
  • Colored display of success and failure delivery report for each message
  • Growl notifications for unread messages

Chat Sessions

Not yet implemented

SMS

  • Growl notifications for unread messages
  • Split tabs in separate windows
  • Enable/disable emoticons
  • Colored display of success and failure delivery report for each message
  • Replication between multiple Blink instances

SMS

Not yet implemented.

File Transfers

  • Based on MSRP protocol with TLS and relay support
  • Drag and drop support
  • Displays transfer speed and remaining time

File Transfers

Not yet implemented.

Desktop Sharing

  • Based on VNC over MSRP protocol with TLS and relay support
  • Can be combined with Audio and Chat sessions

Desktop Sharing

Not yet implemented.

Logging

  • SIP, DNS and MSRP protocol trace to file or window
  • RTP statistics and ICE negotiation information

Logging

  • SIP, DNS, MSRP protocol trace to file