TextNow

I've been using text now for like 3-4 years because paying a phone bill sucks and sometimes is not possible when your on my kindof budget. I was skeptical of the sim card thing for free service but I love it! I hate that I didn't do this sooner, it works, I have full bars of service, and no bill, not an Obama phone type free phone it's your regular phone but it's free. Textnow is by far the best

I have the Text Now free service and my husband the paid service. It is horrible. We stay with it because it's cheap. Half the time I can't make call when I want. It deletes the names of my phone contacts randomly. The names that I put in on the computer don't carry over to my phone app so I have to put in every contact twice. I also get calls and texts from strangers, so they are selling my number. Reception is terrible and sometimes get a text a day later than it was sent. Call are dropped in the middle of talking and I apologize a lot.

Great app until a few months ago. Will terminate your free account without just cause stating you violated the terms of service. No further information, just terminate. A friend attempted to create a textnow account only to be rejected for violating the TOS, and she never even got the chance to fully setup the account and never received a free text number. Do NOT be tempted with this bogus app.

Terrible service... couldn't text... could make calls but not receive any... ported in my number I had for years... then when I wanted to leave them, they wouldn't release it,,, trying to save a penny cost me a dollar... not worth the time and effort; cost more in aggravation... no customer service to speak of... their "chat" is a joke... you'll be on line waiting for a response that will never come... was on hold for 25 minutes and then they gave erroneous info when I told them I needed my account # to transfer to another carrier... DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY... CROOKS

I been using the free service since my phone was sent back to get a replacement. This service is bad you can't hardly text people or when you make calls some people tell me they can't hear me or I sound far away. And the app only works on WiFi only no data. See I been reading a lot of reviews and when I seen nothing but bad I believe each person. See these people are scammers money sucking monsters they don't care about nothing not even a human being its all about money. This app kept feeling me about the good deals they have I said yeah right. The adds are crazy annoying and they want money ha! They will never get a penny out of me. This crappy service is only gôod when you don't have a phone and you need one and its free,. I only use the free service only when I need it I already have a phone carrier and its sure not this company. If I can't go talk to someone in person and all you get is poor customer service then I closing all my accounts..

I tried to connect to my account today using a VPN connection for safety purposes. I found out the hard way that TextNow no longer allows VPN connections as my account was disabled when I tried to connect and I received a message stating that I had violated their terms of service. I filed an appeal and received a message stating: "We are unable to re-enable this account under any circumstances" (see attached copy of message). This comes two weeks after I paid them for locking my number (they assign a phone number to you if you pay them $4.99 per year). They have made no attempt to refund my money, which I thinkt that they should do since they are not providing the service that I paid for.

Calls rarely come through. And if they do, you can't click on the call. It'll just come through and eventually turn into a missed call. This company is quite frankly the worst and I hope they go bankrupt.