TextNow is a mobile app that can send and receive free phone calls with other users. You can also text any phone
because you're given an actual number to use. To make phone calls to
non-users, like landline phones, you'll need to buy or earn redeemable
credits.
The interface is very nice. It keeps track of call history right within the message center, it's quick and easy to start a phone call, and you can even send messages while actively in a call.
In addition to sending text messages, TextNow lets you send photos, drawings, emoticons, and your location. You can also customize the voicemail greeting, get email alerts when you get messages, change the message screen background, use a different alert for different contacts, customize the overall theme, and use a signature with all your messages.
You can login to your TextNow account on a different device, and all your saved messages and phone number will remain and can be used immediately.
Because you don't need an actual phone number to setup TextNow (just an email address), it works with the iPad, iPod touch, and Kindle, but it can also be used on iPhone, Android, Nook, and Windows Phone devices.
TextNow can also be used on a Windows computer, but only with support for the texting feature.
It seems like every few days we’re getting some official new apps on Windows Phone. From small names to big names, everybody wants to stake out their spot in the Windows Phone Store. TextNow is the latest of those to make the jump from Android and iOS to the greener pastures of Windows Phone. How does unlimited texting sound to you?
TextNow is a fairly popular app on both Android and iOS. Since I haven’t used either of those as a daily driver in nearly three years I’m just learning about how popular TextNow is on those platforms. In the iOS App Store alone it has over 155,000 reviews! The current version of the app is even hovering over a 4 star average review. Not bad at all. Clearly this app has quite the install base. So what’s the deal with TextNow?
You get unlimited texting, your own unique phone number, and you can take it anywhere.
With TextNow you can send and receive unlimited text messages within
the USA and Canada, free of charge. You get your own unique number that
you can do the receiving for both calls and texts. It works on the web
or a variety of mobile apps.
After you download the app you can sign in with either Facebook or by
creating an account the old fashioned way – email. After that you
select an area code and TextNow will give you your own unique number.
It’s an easy set up process. After that you can blast your new number to
all your social networks to get people up to speed on your new digits.
From there you can access your contacts within the app and text away.
You’ll want to go into the settings to remove the signature that the app automatically inputs after your messages. Just delete the whole thing to have that “I-sent-this-from-a-phone-and-not-some-machine” vibe.
So who is TextNow for? Anybody that wants to stick it to the carriers by sending texts via data and not SMS. Or anyone who needs a burner number to text their locale dealer (you know who you are). The app isn’t bad, it’s clearly just not for me. But I’m stoked to see another big and popular app from the iOSDroid world hit the Windows Phone Store.
You can download TextNow for free (it’s ad-supported). It looks like you can only grab it for Windows Phone 8. Hit up the Store, use the QR code below, or swipe to the right in our app. (P.S. Grab it for Windows 8 in the Windows Store!)
The interface is very nice. It keeps track of call history right within the message center, it's quick and easy to start a phone call, and you can even send messages while actively in a call.
In addition to sending text messages, TextNow lets you send photos, drawings, emoticons, and your location. You can also customize the voicemail greeting, get email alerts when you get messages, change the message screen background, use a different alert for different contacts, customize the overall theme, and use a signature with all your messages.
You can login to your TextNow account on a different device, and all your saved messages and phone number will remain and can be used immediately.
Because you don't need an actual phone number to setup TextNow (just an email address), it works with the iPad, iPod touch, and Kindle, but it can also be used on iPhone, Android, Nook, and Windows Phone devices.
TextNow can also be used on a Windows computer, but only with support for the texting feature.
It seems like every few days we’re getting some official new apps on Windows Phone. From small names to big names, everybody wants to stake out their spot in the Windows Phone Store. TextNow is the latest of those to make the jump from Android and iOS to the greener pastures of Windows Phone. How does unlimited texting sound to you?
TextNow is a fairly popular app on both Android and iOS. Since I haven’t used either of those as a daily driver in nearly three years I’m just learning about how popular TextNow is on those platforms. In the iOS App Store alone it has over 155,000 reviews! The current version of the app is even hovering over a 4 star average review. Not bad at all. Clearly this app has quite the install base. So what’s the deal with TextNow?
You get unlimited texting, your own unique phone number, and you can take it anywhere.
You’ll want to go into the settings to remove the signature that the app automatically inputs after your messages. Just delete the whole thing to have that “I-sent-this-from-a-phone-and-not-some-machine” vibe.
So who is TextNow for? Anybody that wants to stick it to the carriers by sending texts via data and not SMS. Or anyone who needs a burner number to text their locale dealer (you know who you are). The app isn’t bad, it’s clearly just not for me. But I’m stoked to see another big and popular app from the iOSDroid world hit the Windows Phone Store.
You can download TextNow for free (it’s ad-supported). It looks like you can only grab it for Windows Phone 8. Hit up the Store, use the QR code below, or swipe to the right in our app. (P.S. Grab it for Windows 8 in the Windows Store!)
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