FRITZ!App Fon: iPhone vs Android

FRITZ!App Fon connects with your FRITZ!Box via WLAN so that you can use your telephone at home via the fixed-line network and the Internet. Once FRITZ!App Fon has been started, it automatically runs in the background, making it easy to take incoming calls while other apps are running, or even during standby operation.

Once FRITZ!App Fon has been started, you can make calls with your iPhone, iPod or iPad directly over your FRITZ!Box, just like with a cordless handset. Incoming calls are displayed automatically. To make an outgoing call, open FRITZ!App Fon and dial the desired telephone number via the telephone book. To listen to new messages on the FRITZ!Box answering machine, press and hold down the "1" key.


System requirements:
- FRITZ!Box with FRITZ!OS 7.20 or later
- iOS 14 or later

FRITZ!App Fon connects with your FRITZ!Box via WLAN so that you can use your telephone at home via the fixed-line network and the Internet. Once FRITZ!App Fon has been started, it automatically runs in the background, making it easy to take incoming calls while other apps are running, or even during standby operation.

Once FRITZ!App Fon has been started, you can make calls with your iPhone, iPod or iPad directly over your FRITZ!Box, just like with a cordless handset. Incoming calls are displayed automatically. To make an outgoing call, open FRITZ!App Fon and dial the desired telephone number via the telephone book. To listen to new messages on the FRITZ!Box answering machine, press and hold down the "1" key.


System requirements:
- FRITZ!Box with FRITZ!OS 7.20 or later
- iOS 14 or later

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

Improved: Improvements to stability and details