TextPlus (http://www.textplus.com/) is a cool new app that allows you to text and make phone calls for free from any wi-fi enabled mobile device, including your iPod Touch. Normally, you’d need a full mobile phone account and device to text or call but TextPlus lets you text for free and call other TextPlus users for free, too.
We’ve talked about Dell Voice before. This app allows you to call landlines and cell phones for free but text isn’t included. Check out our post here: Dell Voice With TextPlus, you get a free number, just as you do with Dell Voice, but you can also text. Seems like TextPlus is a better alternative, right?
Head over to the TextPlus site and check out the details of their service. You get a free phone number, just choose where you want the calls to appear to originate from. Remember that you have to install the app from your app store before can sign up. Install the app, apply for an account (all you need is an email address and some other insignificant details (not your home address) and you’re off!
TIP: Calls from one TextPlus account to another are always free. Texts are always free. Phone calls to landlines or mobile devices are extra but very cheap or free. If you watch some ads, you get free minutes. You can also buy minutes. Right now, if you pay $19.99 , you get 1,300 minutes (1,000 in Canada) which is just about free, isn’t it? It seems to us that these rates are substantially cheaper than the rates that Skype offers.
Unfortunately, this offer is only good in the U.S. and Canada, not even Hawaii or Alaska. Check your local app store. There may be something like this around where you live.
Thanks for reading! If you’ve used TextPlus, let us know what you think.
TIP: We are not affiliated with TextPlus in any way. We just like free things.