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Skype - free IM & video calls
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Say “hello” to friends and family with an instant message, voice or video call on Skype for free. Join the millions of people using Skype today to stay in touch with the people who matter most. There’s so much you can do, right from the palm of your hand.
Features:
• Find all your friends and family in an instant - With over 250 million people using Skype, you’re bound to bump into someone you know.
• Talk with your fingers - No matter where you are, your friends are always at your fingertips with free instant messaging.
• Call your world from Skype - Talk to your heart’s content with free voice and video calls to all your friends and family on Skype.
• Low cost calls to mobiles and landlines too - Keep in touch, even if they’re not on Skype, with low cost calls and SMS to mobiles and landlines on the other side of town or the world.
• Share your favourite snaps - Got a favourite photo to share? Send it over Skype to friends and family and you won’t have to worry about email size limits or expensive MMS charges.
• Chat with anyone, anywhere - Skype’s available on smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs, and even TVs. Whatever device your friends or family use, Skype just works. Simple.
• Video messaging – Record life’s everyday moments and share them with the people who matter most, with free and unlimited video messaging over Skype.
Features:
• Find all your friends and family in an instant - With over 250 million people using Skype, you’re bound to bump into someone you know.
• Talk with your fingers - No matter where you are, your friends are always at your fingertips with free instant messaging.
• Call your world from Skype - Talk to your heart’s content with free voice and video calls to all your friends and family on Skype.
• Low cost calls to mobiles and landlines too - Keep in touch, even if they’re not on Skype, with low cost calls and SMS to mobiles and landlines on the other side of town or the world.
• Share your favourite snaps - Got a favourite photo to share? Send it over Skype to friends and family and you won’t have to worry about email size limits or expensive MMS charges.
• Chat with anyone, anywhere - Skype’s available on smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs, and even TVs. Whatever device your friends or family use, Skype just works. Simple.
• Video messaging – Record life’s everyday moments and share them with the people who matter most, with free and unlimited video messaging over Skype.
* Operator data charges may apply. We recommend using an unlimited data plan or WiFi connection.
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4.1
7,475,789 total
5 4,449,614
4 1,263,496
3 687,906
2 343,881
1 729,187
Sreerenjini Surendran
Whenever I call someone or someone calls me (through my Samsung Galaxy S6) I can't hear them at all. It says that my volume is at its maximum. But even when I put the phone to my ear, which I shouldn't have to do, I still can't hear anything. Please fix this?
Zileris Orbit
Favorite groups not in favorites The only things I had in favorites were groups, and there were several. Now groups dont show up in my favorites. Could you fix this please?
amondo mi
YOU FIXED THE BUTTONS YOU FIXED THE BUTTONS OH MY GOD. THIS HAS EARNED YOU A TWO STAR FOR FINALLY LISTENING. now please optimize it to not be so laggy!! every time i tab in it "resets" and takes forever to reload and it lags so yea
Alicia Lee
Could be much much better Calls work fine, yet the ongoing notification keeps disappearing, I can no longer see when someone messages me when I'm in a chat and it logs me out and back in every time I go out and back in to the app. Would have been a better app if it wasn't so buggy. Start fixing the bugs instead of the way it looks.
Jorge Calvo
optimize your @#$% man, these wakelocks are annoying. Why is this app have to be a battery hog? This is inexcusable, If it weren't for my family who are too stubborn to quit using it, I would have quit long ago
Lily Mustain
It sucks It drops four out of every five calls. Please fix this, it's the only way I have to keep in touch with some people.
User reviews
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Could be much much better Calls work fine, yet the ongoing notification keeps disappearing, I can no longer see when someone messages me when I'm in a chat and it logs me out and back in every time I go out and back in to the app. Would have been a better app if it wasn't so buggy. Start fixing the bugs instead of the way it looks.
What the heak I use it and the feed to see the person is fine and good, but then the video like frezes and kicks me out of doing the video and then it sends me to the chat room and ya, then i can go back in the video if i call again, it did this like 7 times, it like works and all but it keeps kicking me out of the video
Still stupid Will the dumb asses in Micros**t ever understand that I don't want it in the background. When I shut it down with notifications off it should not sit in memory using resources. I want to see more than 6 people at a time in my list of contacts. I have a 5 inch screen and they only show 6 contacts in all that space. It doesn't work in landscape mode. Oh yes, the call quality is abysmal.
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TOO BIG. The app works fine for the most part, but the size is obscene. It's way bigger, at least on my phone, than it says on the listing here in the Play Store. Over 85 megs. That's not acceptable. Find a way to reign it in. Also, my calls crash out very frequently, and it also accumulates a high amount of data, which is always annoying, but pales in companion to the ridiculous size of the app itself.
Meh So I use this app to game with my friends and compared to the pc app its lacking ability to call groups or invite someone to the call and that is really annoying. I also get complaints about my mic being low on my droid turbo and I don't know if that's a bug or not but this doesn't happen on other apps. I think they should be able to group call like you can on pc
Deleting Chats Why can't you delete individual chat history on the Android version...you can remove a person's chat from recent chats but when your open their profile later their entire historical chat pops up again...raises serious privacy issues if you ever loose your phone!!! Just not good.enough!!
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How about you stop messing with the way the app looks, because quite frankly it looked just fine the way it was, and maybe try making it more functional instead? I'd rather be able to pick my online status beyond 'available' and 'offline'. You know, something actually useful. And I'm really not liking that I can't see if I have new messages if I'm in a chat, please just put the orange bubble back, this new design is absolutely awful. Fire whoever designed this update.
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Love to communicate I love skype on the comp and on mobile. Only problem is I hate when the look keeps getting changed. Maybe make an option to use different skype layouts if the design is just going to constantly be tossed around; let the user decide what they like best. That and the emojis could seriously have more variety please.
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Material Design is great but UX got worse (Mark All as Read bad placement in settings) When you see a new design overhaul of an App, you expect that the User Experience is improved.. This is not the case, the material design is amazing but the lack of a "Mark All as Read" on the front of an App instead of being in settings, kills this App for me.. Do please change the placement of "Mark All as Read."
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Ahem...and the new list of mistakes is... You guys ruined the formatting and design, the new bar and set up is ao drastically NOT mobile like its sickening, favorites space made into an optional new bar is pointless and less appealing then having a page for all contacts and one for favorites on top of less functional, the profile stuff being another side sweep mode is unoriginal like most stuff you guys are taking from other things, skype is still draining battery and running if not killed, and the only good thing is call button being moved.
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Unusable Skype on Android is just too buggy and too laggy with every device and every conceivable version of android, even stock. They say that they are trying to improve the app, but in about 3 years of use; the quality of this app has mostly gone down. If they fixed more of the crashes and slowness oand audio problems, and added support for group calling, I would recommend it, but since they haven't, just stay away from this app.
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Still packed with bugs, new version actually introduces new ones. * All calls in history with the same number of an ongoing call will actually show as ongoing as well and have their timers incremented. * Consistently crashes after 20-ish minutes during a phone call when in background * Sticky notifications for on-going call are still not working in v6. When Skype is sent to background and pulled back, all the skype notifications disappear from the system notification tray (Lolipop 5.1.1) * Skype online chat support is disastrous: after being asked to reset and uninstall the app, the only proposed solution was to downgrade manually using either broken or dodgy 3rd party websites APK links. Tech guy sounded like a lost Indian who did not know the first thing about Skype nor mobile phones. * Feedback given from the application never had an answer or even an ack. * Please start giving proper support to your customers (especially paying ones) or they will simply switch to Hangout or any other decent solution rather than using Skype again. * Before making it pretty, ensure your app actually runs correctly. * Please provide bug fix list in your release notes.
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Happy, simple to use and good quality I find this simple and easy to use and navigate around. The features are good. Sound and visual quality from my tablet and phone are great even long distance. Does everything you would expect from an app like this. If every single thing was free I would have given 5 stars!
Still having the same problem! Every time it updates, I have to uninstall and reinstall it just to be able to sign in! This isn't a new problem. It's been happening for almost a year now, so CLEARLY they're not either able or going to fix this problem. Works good enough otherwise, but that issue is seriously annoying, especially given how frequently they update just for cosmetic reasons...
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Battery Hog Nice look, but that's about it. Devours battery, messages arrive late or never at all, poor use of space, only two status settings, no favorites menu, lags far too much even on good hardware. Memory hog. I don't know what it's doing but it's using about 12% of my battery. I went from 90% to 75% in about 15 minutes, keep in mind this is with a high end flagship! My phone had great battery life until Skype updated and now it's routinely needing to be plugged in. A disgrace.
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Hate mobile version only The computer Skype I adore. The mobile Skype... I'm considering removing from my phone. I hate that you can no longer disable calling. I hate that Skype notifications now come with a huge call button. If I want to call someone I'll call them. Stop putting irritating call buttons everywhere. Or at least give us the ability to disable call mode on our phones.
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What's New
A fresh new look inspired by material design and more:
• New navigation – Tap on the floating action button on the lower right to quickly make calls, send instant messages, or send a video message
• Search – Easily find and keep track of your most important conversations and contacts.
Additional information
Updated
September 8, 2015
Size
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Installs
500,000,000 - 1,000,000,000
Current Version
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Requires Android
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