Google Voice VS Textnow.com

Google Voice Reviews

Textnow.com Reviews

Google Voice mentions (20)

• Need help with phone bill

  If you can post this you can use https://voice.google.com/about . Call them and tell them , you need to wait to the next pay day to pay your phone bill and be able to accept text messages. Source: 9 months ago

• I’m frustrated with GV, calling issues

  Have you tried connecting via the Google Voice website on a PC to see if you're having the same issues? Source: 12 months ago

• What do I do if a cute stranger asks for my number?

  Get yourself a Google voice phone number! Then you can give out that number and have it forward calls to your real number and preserve some anonymity. Source: about 1 year ago

• Kik is the absolute worst - here's what's better

  You can be completely anonymous by using a google voice number to sign up: https://voice.google.com/about. Source: over 1 year ago

• Fake mobile numbers?

  This one but idk if it works for OP's problem. Source: over 1 year ago

Textnow.com mentions (42)

• As of about 15 minutes ago, I am now homeless. What’s the best course of action from here?

  Textnow.com is one example for online texting, and I bet you could use it on public wifi. You can use a virtual phone number (VOIP) without fees from the site. Just hope this can help a little. Source: 10 months ago

• I feel like my issues are seriously invalidated and minimized by my non-muslim/non-religious friends

  Have an independent phone service from others. You can get a SIM card for $5 U.S. (price at time of this writing) an unlocked phone -phone not linked to a phone carrier service - at textnow.com or you can get the free phone app from Google's Play Store or the Apple Store at https://www.textnow.com/downloads. If you have an locked phone (phone tied to a phone carrier service), than you may be able to ask a customer... Source: 10 months ago

• Been homeless for 12 days, starting to lose hope

  As for the immediate future I highly recommend that you sign up for temporary employment agencies as soon as possible so that immediate employment can happen until you hear back from more permanent jobs. This forum's comprehensive guide can help give you guidance on signing up fast for SNAP benefits for food support, Medicaid for medical insurance, emergency shelter listings, transportation assistance, listings... Source: 12 months ago

• Free or Low Priced Additional Phone Number

  I recently moved to Texas from SF. I have 3 phone numbers with out of state area codes: my cell phone with https://www.h2owireless.com/ (which uses AT&T), a google voice, and a textnow.com phone number. Source: 12 months ago

• Update: I found these texts on my husbands phone. I don’t know if I’m being paranoid or not. (35f 38m)

  There are apps like textnow.com that will give you a free phone number with free texting. You could use that to text her from a different number. If she responds you'll know that your number was blocked on her phone. Source: about 1 year ago