Video Phone Peer

Download Video Phone Peer

No administrator rights, nothing running in the background you didn't ask for. The full app is yours to try for 7 days, then a product key is $2.99 per PC.

Download for Windows (~50 MB)

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Rather not install anything? Get the portable zip (~70 MB), unzip it anywhere and run VideoPhonePeer.exe.

System requirements

Operating systemWindows 10 or Windows 11, 64-bit
Disk spaceAbout 170 MB installed
Camera & microphoneNeeded for video and voice - the app runs without them, but there's nothing to call with
NetworkWorks out of the box, on your own network and across the internet - see the guide for how

Installing it

  1. Run the installer

    VideoPhonePeer-Setup.exe installs Video Phone Peer for you alone, with no administrator rights, and puts it in the Start menu. .NET comes with it - there's nothing else to install.

  2. Open Video Phone Peer

    It opens a first-run screen asking for your name and offering to start or join a group - the guide walks through the rest.

  3. It starts with Windows

    From then on it opens quietly when you sign in, ready in the tray for a call - it doesn't open a window on screen unless you click it. Start with Windows in Settings turns that off.

Uninstalling it from Windows' Installed apps removes the program and nothing else - your key, your groups and your messages stay where they were, so installing it again doesn't make you a stranger your household has to let back in.

Check your download

The installer and Video Phone Peer itself are signed, so Windows can tell who made them. A brand-new release can still get a Windows protected your PC screen: that's SmartScreen saying it hasn't seen many downloads of this file yet, not that anything is wrong with it. Choose More info, check the publisher is the one named here, then Run anyway. If the publisher is anyone else - or "Unknown publisher" - don't run it, and tell us.

For a second check, each download's SHA-256 fingerprint is below. The same file always gives the same fingerprint, and a file changed by even one byte gives a completely different one.

The fingerprints for this release aren't published yet. The signature above is the check that matters most.

How to check a fingerprint
  1. Open PowerShell - press Start and type PowerShell.
  2. Paste this and press Enter. It works out the fingerprint of the installer in your Downloads folder and compares it with the one on this page: 
    (Get-FileHash "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\VideoPhonePeer-Setup.exe").Hash -eq "…"
    For the zip, use this one instead: 
    (Get-FileHash "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\VideoPhonePeer-win-x64.zip").Hash -eq "…"
  3. True means it's exactly the file we published. False means it isn't - download it again from this page, and if it still says False, let us know. If you saved it somewhere other than Downloads, change the path to match.

To see the signature itself: right-click the file, choose Properties, then the Digital Signatures tab.

Missing something you'd actually use? Tell us - that's exactly what decides what gets built next.