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TextNow is on a mission to make phone service free, easy, and accessible to all by providing users with a free phone number, and unlimited calling and texting on the nation’s largest 5G network in the US and on WiFi. Founded in 2009, TextNow is the largest provider of free mobile phone service in the US, supported by advertising. We have offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Waterloo, Ontario and our app has been downloaded more than 250 million times globally. Our phone service helps more than 8 million people connect freely every month. For more information visit
https://www.textnow.com/
TextNow Reviews Summary
TextNow has a rating of 4.2 stars from 689 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with TextNow most frequently mention phone service, sim card and long time. TextNow ranks 8th among Mobile Applications sites.
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This app is great, you can send picture messages, the speed of the message is quick. You can send videos but I wish they would update their system to have better video quality. Other than that very satisfied.
It's a good app for texting when you don't have a current actual plan
I paid $1 for a sim card and if all i need is calling & texting i get unlimited and dont have to pay another dime for a phone bill, or phone card, none of that. I think its amazing! Great job Text Now! Keep up the good work. Lisa Ford
It has been very clear use it sometimes for an hour to listen to my church.
It works great clear and no static I live where there is no cell service and it saves a lot of gas not having to drive down the road
Very clear sounds is top quality, perfect possible.Thank you!
I primarily use a pay as you go cell phone. There are times when I can't meet my monthly charges. That's when I rely on Text Now. I can phone free anywhere in Canada with unlimited use of text messaging. For my own personal use I text anytime to anyone and when someone text's me back I hear a distinct louder chime than my conventional phone. I'm very pleased asit is my go to and it's free.
Its been great tons of great benefits never miss a call or txt. Love how much other stuff you can do to take advantage of all the savings🤓👍👍😁
I was trying to call someone and they were just no answering... But thanks to TextNow, I was able to trick my "friend";into answering the phone. Lol!;Avoid me NOW!😝SUCKA!
May Cater all your needs also and can work as primary number
Love my new text now sim card it gives great free service call text
When someone sends me a picture message it will not open on my iPhone. Can you please advise a solution? No solutions existed in my search.
Thank you.
Hi Joseph! We’re sorry you are unable to open these photo messages you've received. I have sent you a private message so we can assist further.
Cant receive verification code, got locked down once for falsely breaking the "terms of use" and all the videos are terrible quality
Hi Axel! We’re sorry you are having issues with your TextNow app. I have sent you a private message so we can assist further.
Almost every function of this app is free (things like photo storage only come with the paid version), but the only real caveats for a user looking for a free app are that you have to use your number every so often (I think every week? Not sure) to keep it active, and, of course, ads. They're not terrible, though, far less intrusive than they could be, and overall not a bad tradeoff for a free app. (There is also an ad-free version available.)
I was trying to activate a SIM on iphone but it was giving error messages and asking to contact customer service. I did that but Customer rep was also giving me go around. So I stopped this.
Will try again with Customer Service again to see if they can help this time.
Hey Javed, thanks for your review! If you haven't done so already, we'd appreciate reaching back out to our Live Chat so we can continue helping activating your SIM Card.
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Hi Kelly! We're sorry to hear that you received the wrong SIM Card. We have sent you a private message so we can assist further.