Visual voicemail can be a great boost to your personal or business productivity, giving you the ability to manage your incoming and missed calls similar to the way you handle your email. Instead of wasting time listening to the voicemails in chronological order, visual voicemail options offer a host of new capabilities for selecting which voicemail message to hear, or viewing the voicemail as a transcribed text or an email message. Below are some of the top free visual voicemail services and best visual voicemail providers for business and personal calling. Some are offered directly from the mobile phone service provider and others feature extensive business tools to help you easily manage all your business calling needs.
eVoice – A visual voicemail service geared towards businesses that gives you your own local or toll free phone number for which you can route calls to any phone. Incoming calls are answered with a professional greeting and can be routed to any employee or department through the creation of extension numbers. eVoice’s call screening feature lets you know who’s calling before you answer it and gives you the ability to accept the call or send it directly to your visual voicemail. Other features include: auto attendant, unavailable greeting, call transfer, speed dial, call blocking, caller id, voicemail to email, voicemail to text, notifications, web access, and call history. The services isn’t free; it currently costs $29.95 per month but you they do offer a 30-day free trial so you can test it out before you buy. eVoice’s service is easy to setup, it does not require any extra hardware to install, and they offer 24/7 customer support.
Google Voice – A great free visual voicemail app for consumers that ties into other popular Google services like Gmail. In fact the Google Voice web interface is much like that of Gmail’s where you can mark voicemails as read and forward them to others. When used in combination with Gmail, you can create custom filters for specific callers and much more. The voice to text transcription is automated and often doesn’t transcribe spoken words correctly. However, with the click of button you can play the original voicemail message from your Google Voice mobile app, your Voice web account, or your email account.
T-Mobile – Available as an app on several of its supported mobile devices, T-Mobile Visual Voicemail allows you to listen to all your voicemails without calling your default voicemail service. You can conveniently view all messages in a list and see the contact information for each caller. This is a pretty simple service compared to Google Voice as messages aren’t transcribed but it gets the job done and it’s a lot better than using the old call-in method of checking your voicemail.
Verizon – As one of its many perks, Verizion provides visual voicemail capabilities to its customers. Visual voicemail for Verizon is accessible through a mobile app that lets you view and manage incoming calls and messages. Just like other visual voicemail services, with a click of a button you can listen to your voicemail message and manage your voicemail inbox without calling in to check your messages.
YouMail – This service offers a robust set of features that’s free, including visual voicemail. Other features include personalized greetings that can be assigned to incoming numbers and SMS integration for custom alerts. The premium version of YouMail will transcribe voicemail and send it to your email or alert you via text message. YouMail’s least expensive service costs $6.99 for 50 voicemails to be transcribed to text.
Ribbit – A unique phone service that offers lots of cool services like visual voicemail and the ability to make calls online. Ribbit can manage all your calls, help you organize the data around those calls, integrate into various applications for task management, help you schedule meetings and route calls to any of your phones.
Jott – Created initially as a productivity tool, Jott offers visual voicemail as one of its many features. Jott was primarily known for calling in reminders and appointments to your calendar, email, and other integrated sevices. Jott also has a Salesforce app to enhance your productivity and this app will likely integrate further with visual voicemail capabilities in the future. Jott’s visual voicemail service will cost you $9.95 for 40 voicemails to be transcribed.
3jam – Hailed as a potential competitor to Google Voice, 3jam is an organizer for your personal or business call activity and contacts. 3jam offers visual voicemail that can be accessed in multiple formats and several features that can be used in a variety of ways. Notable examples include the ability to send a grout text messages from your email account and the ability to route calls to multiple phones or Skype and instant messengers. Other features include call routing, sms to email, number portability, developer API, call forwarding, and voicemail sharing. 3jam’s services cost as little at $4.99 per month.
Spinvox – A visual voicemail provider that transcribes speech to text and integrates with third party services to help you do almost anything. Using your voice you can create reminders, write a blog post, send email and text messages to multiple recipients at once, update your Facebook or Twitter status and much more.
PhoneTag – Using SimulScribe’s speech to text transcription technology, PhoneTag offers visual voicemail services for its users. You can check voicemail messages online, send them to your email or via text message and dial-in to manage your voicemail. PhoneTag isn’t free ($9.95 for 40 transcriptions) but they do offer 24/7 phone customer service and support.
GotVoice – A visual voicemail provider that can grab your voicemail from your home, mobile and office phones and convert them into text and digital audio files. GotVoice then sends your voicemail messages to your phone or computer in both text and audio formats. GotVoice works with all mobile and landline phones as well as PBX phone systems and VoIP phones. Notable features include voicemail-to-text transcription, greetings, silent delivery (i.e. call voicemail directly), and broadcast calling (i.e. group calling). GotVoice pricing starts at $9.99 per month for both individual and business accounts.
CallWave – Another visual voicemail service that aims to be the central factor in managing your incoming calls. With mobile integration and visual voicemail widgets for your computer desktop or email service, CallWave gives you several access points to its many product options. CallWave also features speech-to-text transcription, making it easier for you to go through messages in a time-efficient manner.
iPhone – The iPhone’s visual voicemail service allows you to view your messages similar to the way in which you would view your email inbox; selecting which messages to listen to, marking them as read, and deleting them. This can all be done, of course, without having to dial into a voicemail service and listen to previous messages first.
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