Fax from Phone : Send Fax Software

It doesn't come up often, but when I do get asked to fax something I usually have no idea where to start. I don't have a fax machine at home (like so many others these days) and sometimes I just can't find the time to make another stop in my day to do so. This handy app takes all of that stress away by letting you fax things directly from your phone. The document preview is great for making sure it won't look awful on the other end. Whether you import or take the photo with your phone, your documents will look professional in no time. While the app itself is free, actually faxing something costs money. This is no surprise since you'll be charged to fax if you go into an office supplies store or something similar. Do a simple in-app purchase for credits and that's it! No big hassle and you'll have plenty of credits for later faxes, for a small price. Definitely worth the download if you work from home, on the go, or just don't want to mess with the fax machine in the office. ;)

The app works just like you would expect a fax app to work: use the camera to capture images of documents, apply some rudimentary image quality filters, enter number, and send. What I don’t like:1. When dragging corners into place on a scan, my fat stump fingers cover the entire zoom area circle and I can’t see where I’m dragging the corner to. I’m on iPhone 6s Plus. Can’t imagine how much worse it would be on a smaller size phone.2. Non-intuitive options for how to go from scanning screen to faxing screen.3. Each scanned page of a document is saved as a separate document file. Foolish of me to expect that it would save as a single multi-page document, like many other fax apps do. 4. Subscription options only. Ok, there’s no free cheese, I get it. But if I only need to send one single fax in the foreseeable future, a subscription, even a week long one, is complete overkill. 5. Subscription pricing. It’s COVID-19 “shelter in place”. Funds are tight if not non-existent. Ugh.

I have been using the Efax app for four years and we love the app. It’s so easy and it works great. I have never had any problems or outages ever. They even changed my fax number to a local number after we moved twice and without a charge. It’s so convenient to be able to access my faxes right from my phone instead of having to wait until I would get home to look at the fax. Then I’m able to print out the fax for my next days work. Previously before Efax I kept a home phone just so I could have a fax, but I had to wait until I got home to get them. And do I have to mention the cost of that home phone just to be able to have the fax. I used to pay $22 a month for that home phone plus you know they add taxes & fees, now I only pay about half that and I’m charged once a year on my business credit card.