FRITZ!App Fon

FRITZ! GmbH

About this app

Easy calling with the landline network

Make calls at home conveniently using your smartphone over your landline telephone numbers - anywhere in the Wi-Fi network of your FRITZ!Box. With the FRITZ!App Fon you benefit from the landline rates; for many providers even from flat rate telephony. HD telephony provides for crystal clear voice quality. Thanks to support for Bluetooth headsets you can enjoy complete flexibility for everyday calling and for working from home. The latest technologies mean that the FRITZ!App Fon works invisibly in the background no matter what the battery status.

The FRITZ!App Fon guides you through the easy Configuration. Simply log in by entering your FRITZ!Box password, selecting one of your landline telephone numbers, and them confirm: your smartphone is ready for landline telephony. Once it has been configured, the FRITZ!App Fon makes your smartphone ring immediately for incoming calls, just as if it were a FRITZ!Fon, the intelligent all-rounder for your home network with FRITZ!. Incoming calls ring simultaneously on your telephones and smartphones. You decide which device should pick up the call. If you would like your smartphone to ring only for certain landline telephone numbers, select only these numbers in the settings of FRITZ!App Fon.

The FRITZ!App Fon is the ideal telephony extension for your FRITZ!Box. Be it a handset for the new roommate in your shared apartment, an additional telephone for working from home, or the convenience of the smartphone that's always handy: with the FRITZ!App Fon you always have a practical solution in no time at all. It is easy to use the FRITZ!App Fon on multiple smartphones.

FRITZ!App Fon functions at a glance

Makes telephone calls over the landline with your smartphone
Top voice quality thanks to HD telephony
Supports Bluetooth headsets
Accesses the telephone books on the FRITZ!Box and smartphone contacts
Displays the names of known contacts during calls

Ratings and reviews

I had high hopes for this update. The interface is definitely better - a more modern look. Sound quality is a bit better, but still not up to the standard of a DECT phone on the Fritz!box system. Two issues: (1) lag/latency which means you end up interrupting the person you are talking to on the phone (2) voice distortion - making you sound like a Dalek. Sadly there doesn't seem to be any way of tweaking the sound through settings short of of trying a reinstall. In fact there don't appear to be any technical settings available at all which is strange on a VOIP phone.

The design is antiquated and feels like it's from Android 2.4 Though it does work well with the router, aside from a hitch for a second on picking up calls during which no participant can hear the other. I'd also like to be able to pick from my phone's contact list which this doesn't do. It only allows you to pick from the router's contact database.

Ui is pretty bad but usable. The Microphone issue could be solved with the provided help (thank you). However there is still the issue of the app not recognizing an incoming call although it is fully connected. 1 out of 3 calls I need to call back because the app simply does not ring. I have checked the background process limit and it is still at the "default limit" so this doesn't seem to be the issue. In fact I'm quite sure that it isn't because I often switch to the app when my other phone is ringing and although the app claims to be connected and working fine it simply doesn't ring.

What’s new

Improved: Improvements to stability and details