I have been thinking about phone calls a lot since Skype was retired in May 2025. The replacements all asked for the same things. Install our app. Create an account. Hand over your phone number for verification. Accept the tracking pixel. Installing an app to make a phone call is, when you stop and think about it, ridiculous. So is creating an account to make a single call to your bank.

We released PuchiDen on 27 April 2026 at puchiden.app. It is a browser-based international calling service that works the way a 1995 payphone worked. Pick up, dial, talk. No app, no account, no tracking.

A handwritten note with the word "puchiden" scrawled in black marker on a vibrant pink background, creating a playful and casual aesthetic.

What It Does

  • Browser-based. Works on any laptop, desktop, or phone browser. There is nothing to install.
  • Coverage in 180+ countries. Landlines and mobiles. Banks, government offices, embassies, hotels, hospitals, anyone with a number.
  • No account, no password, no tracking pixels. No SIM card. We do not need to know who you are to connect a call.
  • Pay only for calls that connect. €5 minimum top-up. No subscription, no per-seat fees, no monthly minimum. Unanswered calls are free.

Who It's For

PuchiDen is for the people who do not need a unified communications platform. They just need to make a phone call. Travellers calling a bank or an embassy from a hotel. Families with relatives abroad. Small businesses making the occasional international call to a supplier, to their lawyer or to a government agency. Former Skype users who want a tool, not a platform.

It is deliberately not a chat app, a video app, or an AI-summary app. It does just one thing.

Why I Built It

I have spent most of my career building telephony products. I founded Xoxzo, which has been doing SMS, SIP, and WebRTC infrastructure for two decades. That meant enough years on the unsexy parts (codecs, NAT traversal, carrier routing, jitter buffers) to notice that the industry had quietly drifted away from what most people actually wanted from a phone. I wrote about why we built PuchiDen, and what we deliberately left out, in more detail at Why I Built PuchiDen.

This release sits alongside KaiMail, our custom-domain email service, in the same line of thinking. Take an old, useful piece of internet infrastructure that has been quietly enshittified, and ship the version that just works. Email and voice are both parts of internet plumbing that ought to feel boring. Most of the time they do not, and that is the gap we keep finding ourselves in.

Try It

Visit puchiden.app, pick a country, dial a number. Top up €5 if you want to keep going. If the call does not connect, you are not charged.

PuchiDen is operated by our sister company Mirakuru Europa OÜ based in Estonia and co-developed with LaLoka Labs in Japan, under EU GDPR.