Text Me - Phone Call + Texting Reviews

Hands down THE BEST for verification purposes I have tried a million different “phone” apps and every time I need a verifiable number I get rejected aside from TextMe! It works every time. Which is amazing considering I don’t always like using my number and it just adds that extra level of security when doing things online for me anyway. Ok another plus is there aren’t a lot of ads like most I have tried to use every two minutes literally you have to watch an ad but again not TextMe. Plus there is also the option to pay a small dollar amount to completely remove ads if you plan on using this more often then not. As I don’t use it much I don’t pay for that. So far I have not had any issues with TextMe itself either. No glitches or anything of that nature. If your considering TextMe I would say go for it!

The description claims that calls and texts are free. This couldn’t be further from the truth. After downloading and selecting a number, I was sent a text and went to retrieve it. I received a message that I had to pay to secure the number for a week to view the text. This is on top of receiving what felt like pop up ads navigating to pop up ads navigating to pop up ads. I thought I had a virus it was so bad. So I tried purchasing credits which left me still unable to view the text. I then purchased a week trial and could finally view the text.

I sent support a message asking for a refund of my purchases since the description said free and I received a speedy response confirming that calls and texts were free and asked me to send a screenshot of the issue. So I sent a screen shot of the block I received showing that it forced me to purchase a week to see the text. I received another speedy response confirming that I had to pay for a week and that credits do not work in TextMe . So I again asked for a refund and no longer received that speedy response I had become accustomed to. I guess everyone went home for the day.

If you don’t mind paying $6 a week for a paid subscription to get free texts and calls then this is the app for you. Silly crooks.

My app has been freezing for the past months and I’ve had TextMe number for over a year. Well I log out and uninstalled app and reinstalled to fix the problem and it always works. Well this time it erased all my numbers and call log and texts. And I am now unable to receive texts and calls but I can only make calls and send texts. Well that number was used for work purposes.... so now I’m out of work and money due to this problem; I don’t know any of their numbers by heart. I contacted customer service multiple times about the issue and they did not respond until over a day later. One representative named Chona replied only twice and I sent about six messages because it was urgent and I sent all the information she needed to fix the problem but she did not do it and it just switched me over to a Nother representative named Darlene. Darlene it also has not fixed the problem or reply to any of my messages except the intro message. So if you guys are OK with losing all your information and not being helped or able to retrieve it back then by all means this is the perfect app. But I have been a customer of over a couple years but then this happens and that is the type of customer service you get.

I tried TextMe out for a short while. It works. I continued to use it and decided to purchase it long term for my business! I acquired quite a following with over 350 clients. I purchased the unlimited option where I could call & receive unlimited calls & text messages. Suddenly I was unable to call out. I contacted tech support via email since that’s all they offered and they sent me an app to check the speed of my phone. While I did that, they wiped my account clean and locked me out! The next day when I went into TextMe to access my client list it was as though I was accessing TextMe for the 1st time. My log in didn’t work or anything! The phone number rings but not to my phone. The company still charging me for TextMe . I contacted them on the original complaint & they said there was an unusual amount of activity on the account so they shut it down & there is nothing more they can do for me! What? They refused to give me access to my client list or even release the phone number! WHAT A GROUP OF UNPROFESSIONAL NON-EMPATHETIC INDIVIDUALS! You could have just asked me. Your app is crap. It didn’t hold up. You all are a group of crooks. If I could have given u a 0 I would have!

I wish I could give a negative star rating. This is the first time ever that I write a review anywhere. I had a premium subscription and just recently, as their new update rolled out, I stopped being able to send text messages and make calls, but i was able to recieve them. So I did what anyone would do and contacted their support. And they reply to me and mark it as SOLVED. They said and I quote, “We detected unusual activity on your this app account(s). In accordance with the this app, Inc, End User License Agreemant and Terms and Conditions, we have limited services available for your account(s) because the activity, or previous activity, is inconsistent with normal use.” Sending a text to my mom and making calls to her is unusual? Using that phone number to sign in to social media is unusual? What part of it is unusual? And they didn’t even say what it was or offer to take off their “Limited Services” to my account or even give me my refund! They just outright cancelled my plan without reason. Worst wifi communications app I have ever used. Do not lose your money on this. Get a prepaid phone instead. I unfortunately couldn’t afford one so I tried out TextMe for their low prices. Bad idea.

Tried TextMe for about 3.5 weeks and was rather disappointed actually. The texting is somewhat easy and likewise with calls but their constant in your face adds are annoying I had 2 fairly important missed phone calls and couldn't retrieve any messages from either. I also used my text me “free this app #” to validate another service I have... but the txt messages sent were “not available” to me unless I paid to upgrade for 1 week or longer! Maybe if they allowed me to have some real use for any amount of time firstly!! But sadly this will be the end with TextMe. Basically more time wasted with this more time and they failed to be reliable. So prepare yourself to “upgrade” and buy your “phone number” and mostly be prepared to be pestered endlessly to do so! Bottom line to this app developers- This is not the way to push sales or increase revenue. If you give a free txt and phone number at least give someone a chance by offering more to them as a trial or “free” features. And lastly “I don’t buy from anyone when pushed so hard or annoyed this much.

So I haven’t talked to my Friend from my old school in a while let me phrase about 3 or 2 years I think he blocked me so I called him with TextMe and he wandered and I just prank called him we had a good chat just catching up then my subscription ended now I’m back to my sad life with not as good friends anymore all I know is no one is as good of a friend as he is my child hood is no more no good friends now I lot them all when I moved no nice people in my schoolroom be honest I would give up anything just to go back to my old state and school ANYTHING AND DO ANYTHING that place meant everything in the world to me I have cherished memories I don’t want us to stop being friend's just because we’re far apart all I know is we will meet again when the time is right or I’ll just text him when I get a new phone cause when I moved away I cryed everyone in that school was so nice to me except for 3 girls:( anyway that’s not the point every now and then I cry on my pillow wishing I was back in Washington Vancouver in my old house going to school with my old Friends we would have such a good time well I could write more but I won’t goodnight or good morning it’s 1:47 am and august 19th

App is very easy to use and I get to have an additional number for my purpose! I love that I even get to choose my own number from about 4 options!! I enjoy its letting me build up credit score to earn points; it is a very excellent function to have! Honestly, there is nothing of TextMe that I can complain about. I do have a question though. There is a section called “Grant of Limited License” within the Terms & Conditions that states, “Subject to these T&Cs and our relevant User Agreements, We hereby grant you a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable license for access and use of Content, Products and Services.” Does being “non-exclusive” mean that this number will be given to a different user once my premium subscription expires? If it should be interpreted a different way, please clarify how. I would really appreciate your help and time! Thank you very much, this app team :)

This is an ok app, but there are wayyyyy to many ads. I see ads just pop up randomly when I’m trying to text. It won’t let me touch anything, it just freezes up. Ads at literally the worst things ever invented. Listen if you don’t care, go ahead and try TextMe out, once you try you will come back and thank me I told you ads were the worst. If you like ads, you know, when they pop up every once in awhile, maybe once every 10-20 minutes, we’ll on text me it’s every second, they never go away, and I thinks it’s dumb to get them removed with money, they shouldn’t be there, how come IMessage doesn’t have one single ad? Dint even tell me that you would even think I’m wrong, go and try TextMe , you will believe me. I only use TextMe to text my Grandmas because they don’t have iPhones, I’m fine using that but I really need improvement, please I’m begging you.

This is not a legitimate phone number if you understand what this means. All phone numbers are not equal anymore. 5 different text me numbers I paid for resulted in all types of disasters from financial to personal injury. If high security is ever at stake, or identity, not only will this number never work or get through, you cannot even use it to be verified by any travel sites, major banks and their debit cards, anything with two part authentication (including Microsoft) instantly reads these numbers as aliases, or ghosts, and you’re ignored, not authenticated, approved and with no explanation. That’s because this is likely to go to court at some point. If this is for fun and prank calls - it works. If your loved one is in a nursing home and you want mom to have a unique number to reach you? Don’t risk it.

Then? Customer service is such a joke, they scam you into paying for certain text messages that are “more important “ because they have a pic in them (or logo). Every week you get warnings you aren’t using the number enough, so PAY MORE NOW OR ELSE.

I’m out hundreds to them, and slowly getting out.

I needed a second # so that when I was off the clock I could simply stop all the late and early AM calls from drivers needing dispatch throughout the night on nights I wasn’t on the clock. This gives me that. I simply turn off push notifications when I get off the clock and Boom... I’m not burdened by random semi drivers that hardly speak the same English I do calling at 3am and getting mad when I tell them to call the office main line because I’m off duty. It’d blow your mind if you knew how many drivers expect me to get out of bed and find them s load OFF the clock just to “do them a solid”... smh. Anyway his app is perfect if u need a work line u can disconnect yourself from after the work day. AND It texts, pic messages, and videos all to the same # as what they call. Sooo handy for BOL’s and invoices. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I’ve written multiple reviews regarding the Freetone/this app apps. It truly was the best free WiFi calling app on the market. But unfortunately, as with the others like it, the developers have chosen to be money greedy and have begun to charge for service. In fact I’ve noticed this trend going on with popular “Free” apps. First they develop a great product, then they put it on the market as freeware, then, once they get thousands of positive reviews, they change it to where you have to pay to use it, and they use the positive reviews as fuel to drive their sales, when in fact those reviews didn’t come from the paid version, but were from the free version. Oh well. Don’t get me wrong. Freetone is still an exceptional app and is worth the money presuming you’re in a position financially to pay for it. But I’m not, especially since there are other options out there that will remain free for life, like Google Voice. But I get it. AdMob only pays so much and TextMeNow is in this business to make money. I’m not mad at ya, just disappointed that the inevitable day has come so early. Best of luck to the success and growth of your company, TextMeNow, Inc. Cheers!

As advertised, it says UNLIMITED TEXTING AND CALLING. After months of using TextMe, it was bought from another company and then asked to download a new application. Overall i have enjoyed the service. But the deal breaker for me is that i use it for work. Answering Advertisement and Responding to customers. This has stopped my ability to work. I attempted to pay 7.99 for unlimited everything and no ads. Reading the Terms and Conditions, the LIMITATIONS say that each user is allowed up to a total of 500 Text messages per month. This happened to be a busy month and now i have stopped communicating with customers for a few days thinking it was a service issue and then had to read closely to understand that they lied about the advertisement and i will be reporting this to apple development to hopefully helping to resolve this issue. Also. Having low bandwidth makes conversations choppy and hard to manage. Constantly running to near the router when getting a call.

I would like to express how GRATEFUL I am that a service app. is available to people like myself that really depends on having a phone service for great reasons, for example, I rely on TextMe. because I have serious health issues and sometimes I can’t afford to pay monthly phone bills knowing that I have to choose between taking my 22 pills a day of medication ( every medication has a co-pay) or paying a phone bill which can SAVE MY LIFE if I would ever need to call for help. On the other hand, it’s just as important to take my 22 pills a day (MEDICATION) in orders to maintain my HEALTH and regulate my pain daily in my body. THEREFORE, without this phone app. I would be put in a very STRESSFUL SITUATION. I would like to say BEST APP. ever. Whether it is known or not, TextMe. IS ONE OF THOSE THAT DEFINITELY CAN SAVE LIVES.
DEEPLY APPRECIATED,,,
SINCERELY,
NLH, PITTSBURGH PA

This application is so cool. I am a kid and sense l am not big enough for a phone l use this application to feel l have a phone and it really works! When you start they give you like a real phone number and if another device calls that number you get the call like a real phone🤩 sense l have a iPad there is some phones that are not compatible with my iPad but it makes it makes it possible! That is the reason why l downloaded this is because is like magic that automatically makes you talk with a phone number that is not compatible with my iPad. For a kid is a really cool that to download and plus everything is free! So if you are reading this DOWNLOAD IT NOW RIGHT THIS INSTANT!!!🥺🥺🥺please because is amazing

I wrote a fairly short, 3 line message to a friend and got this response: “That last message came through as <>” So I split it up into 3 shorter blurbs. Then he wrote “The last three messages I've received read as "nullnullnullnull" “

Unfortunately this happens a lot with my friends. They’re not getting my messages, some of them are telling me they are getting content not supported, and others just don’t respond to anything I type, so they’re apparently not getting my messages at all.

I learned long ago not to try to send an image, or a photo, because it’s never seen by anybody. Why do you allow us to send a photo when it doesn’t isn’t viewable by someone on the other end?

Sometimes I can send the exact same message, and it will go through to some people and not to others. My church has me in a group message thing, and I never see the message that the pastor sends out... but I do see an occasional AMEN or a comment that makes no sense out of context of the original text they are responding to.

There are also several US phone numbers that it will not dial. I had to change my healthcare plan because I could not contact my doctor! I dropped out of a networking group because it wouldn’t connect to the training phone number in Ohio.

It’s a crap shoot to use TextMe. Try it at your own risk and frustration level.

I was using the paid version of this application for nearly a year and all of a sudden last week my account was disabled, I could not send or receive texts or calls, so I contact their support and they said they detected unusual activity from my account which is a lie I did not do anything unusual, but they refused to fix the problem and instead deleted my account for no reason. I lost a lot of personal and business texts and contacts and I have lost thousands of dollars in lost business, and several personal relationships because of this. Do not use this application they will defraud you take your money and leave you stranded. This company should be sued and they should be removed from TextMe Store for committing fraud against customers! There are multiple reviews like mine within the past week or two, this company needs to be investigated for stealing and lying to their customers!!! I’m going to file a complaint with Apple ASAP.

Me and my brother had this account because my parents didn’t want us to have the normal app so we would text whoever are friends and family but we would get random messages from people sending voice mails and telling us we haven’t paid them and the next week we got random calls or TextMe would tell us if we wanted to text someone from Hawaii or Canada but we said no but TextMe KEPTED on telling us but when we pressed yes the person asked for pictures of us and stuff I don’t wanna say and I will remind you me and my brother where ten and now we are 14 so we told are parents but they didn’t do anything but everyday thoses two people would text asking for stuff pictures of are house or a picture of where we are until the people told us they wheee going to come get us so me and my rbother delete TextMe and we have never gotten message so if you wanna download this for your kid please if it asks to text this person keep on pressing no . :)

It’s an OK app, but there are too many adds. I wouldn’t think that you would need so many, but I wouldn’t know either. Every time that you send a text, an add pops up, and about every where you look on TextMe there’s an add. Also, I can’t send any GIFs or pics or videos. The most annoying thing is that I can’t join a group that my friends are on, but they also are using messages on Samsung phones, dk if that would make a difference. It’s not a huge deal to me that I can’t be on the chat so whatever. I decided that I wouldn’t go to the hassle of getting another app, because it is free, so, hey. You also get a lot of scam calls/texts. It is a great app for what I use it for (casual texting, nothing important) but it would be very annoying otherwise.

I paid for premium. TextMe is OK as far as features and usability. However, if I have two bars I can’t answer incoming calls and TextMe basically freezes. A normal call through the iPhone has no issue. Also, I never have a problem with another ‘extra line’ app. I use this number as a client contact line so it really needs to work as well as the regular phone line.

The next part is what gets the 1 star. I ported my number to another app, and this app completely shut off my access. Even if I discontinue the service, I should still be able to look at my old text chains. I frickin paid for that! And also, the port takes 10-15 days I guess?! But my number is supposed to stay working until the actual switch takes place. Nope, no working phone number and no access to TextMe . Even though I’m paid up through the end of the month. And this is really screwing me over as I take sales call on that number!

I have a twin sister that lives in a different state then me, she has a real phone while i have a iPod. I didn't have a phone number until i got TextMe, it works for other apps sometimes when it says phone number, U CAN ACTUALLY USE THE PHONE NUMBER FOR CLARIFICATION ON DIFFERENT APPS! I was excited about this until it got logged out of my account. And if i told all of my friends that i got a new phone number every other week then that would just be weird. So if you were to get this I would recommend remembering your password or buying your phone number, but i think you have to pay for it every month. There are also A LOT of ads, every single time you text someone you have a ad pop up, every single time you call someone there is a video ad. And if you want to go ad free then you have to pay for it, EVER WEEK. Or if you pay more then its ever month. If you don't want to to deal with all of this then i would recommend getting a different app. Overall of these bad stuff I think its a pretty good app.
Ps. It wont let u send text messages to people that only have emails.

Hi, I recently submitted suggestion for TextMe saying that I couldn’t login and that was true. But TextMe got a lot better I think, I was able to login it kept my previous account, although my number had expired because I was not able to login before. I got a new number and I use it for a lot of my friends, because I have an I pod touch and I cannot text a lot of my friends because they do not have an iPhone. TextMe really helped me a lot I can text a lot of my friends and I suggested to anyone service is not working anymore or they cannot text and maybe half an iPod touch like I do and I really liked it a lot, just be sure to use it every once in a while or else your number will expire like mine did. One suggestion though: be able to text people just by asking Siri to this app to this person. I would use Siri a lot in that way because my parents have strict rules on device time and a lot of my friends text me through this app it would be to be able to ask Siri to do it for me. Thanks!!!

I’ve used ALOT if not most of the texting apps offered due to living in a town with virtually no cell service. TextMe takes the place of cell and land lines. Until recently getting a job that required I had a landline set up, this was the only thing I used to receive and make calls from home. Most apps require you to watch videos or complete surveys, etc to earn credits to make calls. TextMe allows you to call anywhere without credits. I also don’t have complaints on glitches or not receiving calls/texts. Unlike most apps TextMe never seems to give me many problems like glitches or freezing up or running slow. I would recommend it to anyone that is looking for a VoIP App.

So first off, in group chats it won’t let you change the name of a person or add it to your contacts, so if there’s several people in on thing it can get tricky. It’ll only let you change the “conversation title” whatever that means. Second, there is add everywhere. I can deal with them, but it can get annoying when you hit a few of them and it completely redirects you. THIRD, and this is by far my biggest issue, it limits your texts. Or at least my version does. I downloaded TextMe so I could talk to online friends on a RELIABLE platform, but it won’t let me send them messages. And, for every message you try to send, the staff will send you a link to their website saying something like, oh this is a security measure and you can remove it if you click here. The link takes you to their website, which is hard to navigate, and when you find the section about the security and not being able text, it’s general attitude is, “HA. Not my problem.

Skip this one, there’s nothing special about it compared to the other popular text apps. It’s only worse.
Half of my texts and calls don’t come through and the ones that do give me NO notification unless I open TextMe and check mailbox. Had a mini emergency situation a few days after I downloaded it and I wasn’t able to make any calls (still can’t after 2 weeks) either itS silent (no dialing or ringing) or it straight up won’t even attempt to call after press the green call button several times. Then you also get a bonus of it freezing and being SLOW. Glad I figured this out before I committed to this number and using it as my contact.
Also it’s ugly and cluttered looking

Great app so far. Able to get a second line, text and calling. Work at a hospital so I needed a second line to use for when I get paged. Only complaint is ringtones and duration. I wish there was an option for custom or more ringtones, as well as having the notification ring for a longer period of time. Sometimes I get paged in the middle of the night, I need to be able to wake up and hear it. Please add this option!!!!

TextMe is so far working fine. My iPhone doesn’t have service, and I needed a way to contact my friends and parents. The thing is, the ads are driving me crazy! A lot of them are kind of weird.
The only bad experience I had with it was when I couldn’t log back in on a different device. Trying another way, I applied for a new number, but right afterwards, figured out that it had logged me back in! Don’t know what happened, but at least it saved me the trouble of having to tell everyone my new number.
It works perfectly fine, just like messages and it surprised me when I could text other people that didn’t have TextMe .
Overall great! But if you want to spend a few $$ a week, they can stop the ads and let u call for free.

TextMe is overall decent until recently it just was not sending or receiving messages and when I erased TextMe and downloaded it again I tried to sign in with the email I originally used to create an account and the first time I tried to log in and said glad to see you back and proceeded to sign in so I put in my email and my passsord and every time I’d it login it wouldn’t do nothing it wouldn’t say the password is wrong nothing just loads up to make me try to sign in again so after that I closed TextMe and try to sign in again with the same email after that it said I never had an account under that same email and it’s frustrating because I had a lot of contacts in there that I need and can’t get back unless the problems is fixed and I can login 2 stars sorry not sorry

I downloaded the free app as a trial to see if I liked it. And also to keep in instant contact and to send out information to my clients. I did like the features in TextMe more so compared to others. I was very excited to use it. And I noticed that I was texting more than probably allowed so I decided to pay the monthly fee to get the unlimited texting. We are currently in the process of ordering our clients Christmas item and needed to know a favorite color. So I messaged all my clients only to not be able to respond when they texted a response or something else back. My account had been paused due to “spam” or whatever they called it. I’m in the process of letting my clients know that I’m canceling my subscription with TextMe and in search of a better on with no restrictions if YOU’RE PAYING!! So save your time if you are looking for something similar.

Worst texting & calling app ever. DO NOT make the mistake of using it. It has a ridiculous amount of bugs, it's unbeliveable that Apple would let such an app on the store. Nothing seems to be working properly: when getting a phone call, you cannot answer it even if TextMe is open (and internet connection is great): you keep TextMe open and it just shows a "missed call" notification. Listening to voicemails doesn't work, getting text messages doesn't always work, when searching through your contacts, to make a phone call, you better be light-speed fast because that search doesn't work otherwise - it's simply THE worst app I've ever used. I had 3 numbers with them, for over 1 year, but no more - I'm done paying and supporting this useless app. If you're smart, you'll do the same and NOT install it to begin with!

Ok so I love be TextMe so far but one problem it logged me out and I could not log back in so I made a new account for text me and now I’m just saving some of my number back in that I had before so if text me could tell to this that would be great because I don’t understand why it logged me out? I tried getting back into my account but it did not work it just keep saying Rest password so I did and then it sent to my email and then o tried to rest it but it did not work so I just deleted text me downloaded it back to see if it would work and did it? Nope so o just gave up and made a new account sorry for the long review I’m just mad a little 😂😂

TextMe is ok... I have an apple iPod so I don’t have a phone number and so I can’t text my friend who has a Samsun, but.... TextMe works pretty well. I would say the best part about it is that you can have multiple phone numbers so you can easily prank call people lol 😂. The only part of it I don’t like is the fact that there are so many apps, but I get it since it’s a free app. There are scammers tho that text me trying to get me to go to their website, for example one time I got a text that said “hello Timothy John Smith, this is the Judy county jail. Click on the website to learn more” when really it was just a home advisor website trying to get my attention so if you get random text, it probably just a scammer website.