Grasshopper vs RingCentral: What are the differences?

Developers describe Grasshopper as "The entrepreneur’s phone system". Sound more professional and stay connected with Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Grasshopper works just like a traditional phone system, but requires no hardware to purchase or software to install. On the other hand, RingCentral is detailed as "Cloud business phone systems that work the way you do". Since RingCentral is cloud based, you enjoy the freedom to connect and manage multiple locations, devices and workers within your cloud phone system. You can easily customize users, departments, and call handling rules. No matter where you, or the users, are. You only need a high-speed Internet connection and your phone system is ready to work lightning fast, anytime and anyplace. There’s no PBX hardware.

Grasshopper and RingCentral can be primarily classified as "Phone" tools.

Some of the features offered by Grasshopper are:

• Toll Free or Local Number - local or national presence
• Unlimited Extensions - for departments & employees
• Call forwarding to mobile phones - work from anywhere

On the other hand, RingCentral provides the following key features:

• Many locations. One phone system.- Since RingCentral is cloud based, you enjoy the freedom to connect and manage multiple locations, devices and workers within your cloud phone system.
• Save time and money.- You only need a high-speed Internet connection and your phone system is ready to work lightning fast, anytime and anyplace. There’s no PBX hardware.
• Your system grows with you.- Add users. Delete users. It's as easy as setting up emails, so you can make adjustments as often as you like. You can share your presence status as busy, available, or on hold with your admins and colleagues and make sure important calls are never missed.