You can also customize the voicemail greeting, get email alerts when you get messages, change the message screen background, use a different alert for different contacts, customize the overall theme, and use a signature with all your messages. In addition to sending text messages, TextNow lets you send photos, drawings, emoticons, and your location. It keeps track of call history right within the message center, it's quick and easy to start a phone call, and you can even send messages while actively in a call. To make phone calls to non-users, like landline phones, you need to buy or earn redeemable credits. You can also text any phone because you're given an actual number to use.

TextNow is a mobile app that can send and receive free phone calls from other users. You can make calls with WhatsApp using an Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, or Mac.Ĭalls are not free if you want to talk with a non-user (someone not using the app). WhatsApp also lets you send videos, photos, your location, and contacts to other users. Like Signal, end-to-end encryption is supported for all communication within the app.īecause WhatsApp requires the app to make free phone calls, you can not use it to make free calls to phones that don't have the app installed, nor to landlines. Group calls can include as many as eight people.

Once you're using the app, you can start a new conversation to clearly see which of your contacts are also using WhatsApp, then you can call them for free no matter where in the world they're located. You just need to confirm your phone number to get started. However, you can also call your WhatsApp friends right from the app using only your internet connection (it doesn't count against your phone plan's voice minutes). Meta-owned WhatsApp is a popular texting app with hundreds of millions of users. It's unable to call non-users like landline phones.

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