Skype

Skype for Android devices is the best app for sending instant messages, photos and SMS, making phone calls and video calls to any of its other users.

The best app for voice and video calls

If there's one application that comes to mind first when you think of video calling over the Internet, it's Skype. It was there before, but even more so when it was acquired by Microsoft and its features were expanded to make it one of the most powerful programs for personal communication (although it's also widely used in professional environments).

Instant messaging, calls and video calls

And this is precisely what the Android version of the application offers and why downloading its APK becomes one of the best options available to us if we want to communicate for free (or cheap if we want to make external calls to fixed and mobile phones). Cellular Network): All it takes is a data connection or WiFi to make calls, video calls, and chats with anyone on Skype.

The most important features

It has all the options you need for a complete and easy communication:

• Set up HD video calls and talk face-to-face with your contacts.
• Make video and group calls with up to 24 people.
• Chat with any Skype user or in a group.
• Allows you to mention users with the at sign.
• With the SMS service you can read and reply to SMS from your phone in the desktop version of Skype.
• The user can send photos and videos and save them in the camera album.
• To improve communication, the user can use Giphy emoticons and GIFs or add picture notes to his/her conversations.
• It includes a screen sharing option to make plans, show works or presentations.
• You can buy different payment plans to make calls to landlines and mobiles at low prices.
• You can talk to anyone, no matter what operating system he or she uses to use Skype.

And is it worth downloading the application? Yes, because if you consider how many Skype users there are (according to Microsoft at least), it's more than 300 million. Quite possible that one of your regular contacts uses it, right?

There are few applications that bridge the gap between people as much as this one. Thanks to Skype, the whole world can talk to each other. Messages, calls or video calls - you decide how you communicate.

What's new in the latest version?

• Option to blur background on video calls.
• Updated Custom Response selection.
• Bug fixes and stability improvements.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 6.0.