ISDN Caller ID Software

This survey of Caller ID software accompanies my Computer Caller ID FAQ at http://www.ainslie.org.uk/callerid.htm. If you have come here via an external link such as a search engine, I recommend that you have a look at the FAQ first before looking at software. Except where otherwise stated, the programs on this page are Caller ID programs for ISDN hardware interfacing to Windows 95 or NT via CAPI 2.0. This means you must have CAPI2032.DLL - Gunnar Woldmo has a utility to check that your system is CAPI 2.0-compliant. I've not got ISDN, so I have no idea which of these programs are any good, so I've put them in alphabetical order - I'd welcome any recommendations. For non-ISDN software, see the links at the bottom of the page.

Since ISDN has been so much more successful in Germany, most CAPI programs have been written by Germans in German, although some have realised that English translations will have a much wider audience. In a lot of cases, it doesn't actually matter if you're just seeing a popup with a phone number. At the moment the software is fairly basic - simple Caller ID popups and voicemail systems. This is slowly changing as development tools become available - search for ISDN on my developer's page - but I know people who have had to resort to extracting functions out of CAPI2032.DLL and writing VB function calls for those functions. The definitive list of CAPI applications is maintained by the CAPI Organisation; you'll find all the experts in comp.dcom.isdn.capi

Bitsurfr Pro Caller ID/ BT Caller ID
Vendor : Russell Patterson
Website : http://www2.msstate.edu/~rwp1/cid.htm (v2.0)
http://www.uglypig.org/bitprocid/ (v1.0)
Download : http://www2.msstate.edu/~rwp1/bpcid201.exe (BitSurfr v2.01) http://www2.msstate.edu/~rwp1/btcid201.exe/ (Ignition v2.01)
Price : US$???
Platform : Windows 95/NT
Language : English
The original was "designed for the [Motorola] BitSurfr Pro terminal adaptor", (now discontinued), but he has now added a version for the BT Ignition adaptor (which is a slightly modified BitSurfr). From what I've heard, the interface isn't great, but it works and is better than nothing.

Call Director
Vendor : Don Starr, Starrsoft
Website : http://www.starrsoft.com/CallDirector/
Download : http://www.starrsoft.com/CallDirector/calldir.ex_
Price : US$20, 30 day shareware
Platform : Windows 95/98/NT, 3Com ImpactIQ and Netopia 612 ISDN modems only
Language : English
Looks like a nice telephony program if you have the hardware. Registering brings you things like ACR and killfile, plus a remote access program.

Call ID
Vendor : TEAM GbR
Website : http://www.byteam.com/call/index.htm
Price : shareware??
Language : German
Pretty looking popup program, now apparently discontinued.

Capitel Answerphone
Vendor : CapiTel
Website : http://www.2tec.com/capitel/index.html
Download : (off homepage)
Price : Free if used just for Caller ID, DM55 or US$30 as answer phone.
Platform : Windows 95 (CAPI 2.0), OS/2 (CAPI 1.1 & 2.0)
Language : German, English, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian
Screenshots : http://www.2tec.com/capitel/shots.html
Another ISDN answerphone with some nice features like recognising DTMF tones for remote access. Definitely worth checking out.

DisplayCall
Vendor : Andreas Lachenmann
Website : http://members.aol.com/displcall/english/info.html
Download v1.30b2 : http://members.aol.com/displcall/english/download.html
Price : Freeware
Language : German and English
Call logger that can launch programs etc.

ISDN Anruf Monitor = ISDNMoni
Vendor : Heuer Software
Website : http://home.t-online.de/home/heuer/
Download : http://www.isdnmoni.de/#demodown
Price : DM49/ US$29
Platform : 16 bit and 32 bit versions
Language : German
Unfortunately my German isn't quite up to following the details of this program (I get lost when people start talking ISDN-technical in English!), but it looks pretty sophisticated and well worth a look.

ISDN CAPI Call Monitor
Vendor :Reiner Keiffenheim
Website : http://www.keiffenhome.de/iccm/ICCM/iccm.html
Price : €5
Download : http://www.keiffenhome.de/iccm/ICCM/Download/download.html
Language : German
Screenshot : http://www.keiffenhome.de/iccm/ICCM/Abbildungen/abbildungen.html
Reiner has an OCX for CAPI programming based on this program.

ISDNCid
Vendor : Gunnar Woldmo
Website : http://www.telecosoft.com
Download : http://www.telecosoft.com/download.html
Price : 21 day shareware, US$10
Language : English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese, Norwegian
As well as Caller ID, this claims to offer voicemail, call blocking and program launching - worth investigating?

ISDNPhone
Vendor : Jochen Tillmanns
Website : http://www.isdnphone.de/
Download v1.1 : http://www.isdnphone.de/download/home.php
Price : €25, €79 for DSP version
Language : German & English
Screenshots : http://www.isdnphone.de/screenshots/home.php
A phone program for ISDN. Jochen even sent me an email to tell me he'd changed some of his links - nice man <g>. Definitely worth checking out.

ISDN Snoop
Vendor : Michael Ziegler
Website : http://www.xenia-software.de/snoop/english/index.html
Download : (from the homepage)
Price : Freeware? but he may be setting up a company?
Platform : Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT (CAPI 2.0)
Language : German and English
Call logger that looks pretty configurable. The 16 bit version is a notable bonus.

Moony
Vendor : Emtec
Website : http://www.emtec.com/moony/index.html
Download : http://www.emtec.com/download.html#moonyfiles
Price : DM29
Language : German and English
Screenshots : http://www.emtec.com/moony/screenshots.html
Looks quite a slick little program.

Napalm's Anrufmonitor
Vendor : Mirko Tocchella
Website : http://www.napalm.de
Download : http://130.75.66.2/software/Tools/Vernetzung_und_Webdesign/ISDN/isdn-anrufmonitor-free-NAP-AM.exe (not checked)
Language : German
The Kai-inspired interface was a bit different, but sadly it's been discontinued. You can unlock a copy with a user name of "Frei Version" and a key of CJTDG-UAUQW-RMMPR-DWNMB.

PacCID
Vendor : Vicente Marianito
Website : No longer at http://paccom.digiweb.com/paccid/ - I think Vicente is now at www.marianito.net?
Price : 2.500$00 (~US$14) single user, 5.000$00 (~US$28) for the network version
Language : Portuguese
Unfortunately my Portuguese isn't up to working out the finer points of this CAPI program, but apparently it can link numbers to callers, can automatically assign numbers to countries, and can share the data with other computers on a LAN. The shareware version will only allow 3 calls per session. (thanks Rui)

PhoneDisplay
Vendor : Jens Neumann
Website : http://www.jens-neumann.de/software/phonedisplay/index.shtml
Download : http://www.jens-neumann.de/software/phonedisplay/files/PhoneDisplay_v1.53_English.exe
Price : Freeware
Language : German, English and Norwegian
Another little program that pops up from the system tray.

RVS-COM
Vendor : Living Byte Software GmbH
Website : http://www.rvscom.com/
Price : Lite is bundled with OEM hardware, Standard is DM349, Professional is DM790
Platform : Win 3.x, NT/95/8/Me/2k/XP
Languages : English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese!
I can't really do this program justice here, but if you are willing to pay for it, this offers a full communications suite for ISDN users including features like a fax server and some kind of development of environment. However, a lot of people will buy it just because it gives Outlook Caller ID capability, never mind the fact that it claims to be able to OCR incoming faxes directly into Outlook.

SmartID
Vendor : P.J.M. van Dinther
Website : Fomerly http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3683/
Download :
Price : Freeware
Language : Dutch and English
My Dutch isn't quite up to understanding all the features, but the ability to link to a Dutch CD of phone numbers is notable. Sister program to Smartkriezer - again, I think Paul is now at www.diprode.com.

XAN Answermachine
Vendor : XAN
Website : http://www.xan.de/ab/index.htm
Download : http://www.xan.de/download.htm
Price : €60, €120, €200 depending on version.
Language : German
Screenshots : http://www.xan.de/ab/abscreenshots.htm
The website is in German only, but looks OK.

Link Graveyard
Does anyone know what's happened to these links?
http://www.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/~pweikert/callerid.html (program)
http://www.teuto.de/~heedfeld/ (various CAPI links)

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