About Kinvo

What Kinvo is

Kinvo is a browser-based international calling service. You open a web browser — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge — sign in, and call landlines and mobile phones in 220+ countries. There is no app to download and no SIM to buy. Calls connect to real phone numbers over the public telephone network using WebRTC, so the person you call does not need Kinvo, an app, or even an internet connection.

Kinvo is a software service, not a wireless carrier, mobile network, or messaging app. It does one thing well: place affordable outbound international calls from your browser.

Who builds it

Kinvo is built by GlitchFi and launched in 2025. Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5, 2025, leaving millions of people who relied on it for cheap international phone calls without a direct replacement — Microsoft Teams does not offer the same pay-as-you-go calling to phone numbers. Kinvo was built to fill that gap: the parts of Skype people actually used for calling home, rebuilt for the modern browser.

How it works

• No app, no install. Everything runs in your browser. Calls use the Opus codec over WebRTC for HD voice.
• Pay-as-you-go. Credits start at $5 and never expire — no subscription, no monthly fee. Rates start from $0.03/min to US and UK landlines, with a $0.05 connection fee charged only when a call is answered.
• Real phone numbers. Call any landline or mobile in 220+ countries. Optional virtual numbers (US, UK, Canada, Australia) let people call you back.
• Teams. Shared wallets, per-member analytics, and spending limits for small businesses.

Who it is for

Kinvo is used by people who make international calls regularly: families staying in touch across countries, expats and migrant workers calling home, remote teams, and small businesses calling suppliers and customers abroad. A large share of Kinvo users are in the United States and across the Middle East and North Africa — including the Gulf, where expatriate workers call home to India, the Philippines, Egypt, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. For Arabic-speaking users, Kinvo offers a full right-to-left Arabic site at kinvophone.com/ar.

What Kinvo believes

Calling someone in another country should be simple and cheap. It should not require an app download, a contract, a local SIM, or credits that expire before you use them. Kinvo is built around that idea — the fastest path from “I need to call someone abroad” to a connected call.