“Lies. False advertising. — They advertise free 2nd number and then force you to sign up for a weekly subscription as soon as you try to get one. Weak.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 509 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★30,635 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
215 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Make free calls & texts via WiFi or cellular data with the Dingtone app! It's also a second phone number app loved by millions. Bothered by exposing your personal phone number to people you don't trust at work or in social situations? Dingtone helps!
* FREE Phone Calls + FREE Text Messaging * Get a FREE US phone number to protect your very own phone number * Call & text any number landline or mobile over 230 countries * Cheap international calls to anyone anywhere * Turn your iPod/iPad into an iPhone
◆Free Calling & Free Texting Phone Call App Dingtone lets you make unlimited free phone calls to anyone over WiFi, 3G/4G data network without using any cell minutes. Stop wasting money on calling and texting! Invite family members and friends to use Dingtone free phone app, and start saving money now.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 6.3.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.3.0, updated 2021-10-23.
What we measured
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Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 509 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (8 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Bait and switch model — Good rates initially. Then $5/week and $10/week plans. Have used it off and on for international calls but now it is Pain in the . Do not recommend this app. Waste of time and initial deposit.”
“Scammers — IT COST MONEY TO USE A PHONE NUMBER WHEN IT SAID IT WAS SO CALLED “FREE” I thought fraud and false advertising were crimes?”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.3.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$1.99
Highest$20.99
Phone Number Pack(1 Week)$5.99
Remove Ads$1.99
Small Credits Package$4.99
200 Credits$3.99
Large Credits Package$20.99
Show 4 more purchases
Medium Credits Package$11.99
500 Credits$9.99
1000 Credits$18.99
Dingtone Phone Number$4.99