Stores, forms and apps all ask for your phone number. Give them a different one. Its texts wait on a private web page that you open when you want. Your phone stays quiet, and your own number stays with people you know.
Every time you write it on a form, it can be stored, shared and sold. You cannot take it back.
complaints about unwanted calls reached the FTC in fiscal year 2025.
FTC, Do Not Call Registry Data Booknumbers are on the National Do Not Call Registry. The FTC says the list stops sales calls from companies that follow the law. It does not stop callers who ignore it.
FTC, Do Not Call Registry FAQsBe careful about giving out your mobile number, and check a site's privacy policy before you type it in.
FCC consumer guide on unwanted calls and textsYou do not need a second phone or a second line. You need a number whose texts go somewhere else.
No app, no second line, no setup. The number lives on a web page. Nothing rings and nothing buzzes.
Open your private inbox page on a computer or a phone when you are expecting something. The rest of the time you never see it.
It is a real US mobile number on the T-Mobile network. You write it on a form like any other number.
Take it for 7, 14 or 30 days. Renew to keep it. Stop and the number is gone. Your own number never changed.
A simple rule: people get your real number, everything else gets the other one.
If someone needs to call you, a text number will not ring. For that, take the line on your phone, below.
The price you see is the price you pay. Taxes and fees are included.
Not sure which one? If nobody needs to call you on it, take the text number.
7, 14 or 30 days. Add sending if you want to text back.
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal or crypto. No ID and no phone details are asked.
The number and the link to its private inbox are on the next page and in your email.
Write it on forms from now on. Open the inbox when you expect a text.
Read this before you buy.
Calls to a text number are not answered. If a landlord, a buyer or a driver needs to call you, take the line on your phone.
Texts come in on every plan. Sending is an add-on: up to 20 texts a month, from the inbox page.
Nothing here blocks or filters. It keeps your own number off new lists. Lists that already have it still do.
Like most US numbers, it was used before, so a text meant for that person can arrive. We empty the inbox before the number becomes yours.
We email you before it ends. If it is not renewed, the number is taken back and its texts are erased.
One person can hold up to 3 text numbers at a time.
No. There is no app and no second line. You open a web page.
Yes. It is a real US mobile number on the T-Mobile network.
On your private inbox page. The link comes by email right after payment, and it opens on a computer or a phone. Keep the link to yourself: anyone who has it can read the texts.
They can dial it, and nobody answers. It is for texts. If you need a number that rings, take the line for your phone instead.
With the add-on, yes: up to 20 texts a month from the inbox page, for $3. Without it the number only receives.
As long as you renew it. Choose 7, 14 or 30 days each time. The email we send before it ends has the link to renew.
The number is taken back and its texts are erased within 2 days. If you change your mind, our email has a link that brings the same number back while nobody else has it.
No. It keeps your own number off new lists. Texts and calls from lists that already have your number do not change.
No. You get the next free number, and it can have any US area code.
Yes, for your own use, up to 3 numbers. If you need more numbers, or numbers that software can use, see Business and AI lines.
Sources: FTC, National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2025 (complaints and registrations). FTC, National Do Not Call Registry FAQs (what the list stops and what it does not). FCC, Stop Unwanted Robocalls and Texts (advice on sharing your number).