“It was originally five stars when they gave me a few free text messages. then I paid to get extra text messages and they unloaded a waterfall of ads. Open the app get ads. they asked me to review the app and before I could do the review…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 903 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.4 ★57,194 ratings
1M+Downloads
12+Age rating
207 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
*** FREE TO DOWNLOAD AND GET A FREE TRIAL NUMBER, TEXTS AND MINUTES FOR CALLING ***
+ Phoner app is the best second phone number app for texting and calling. Phoner gives you a personal and business second phone number, integrated reverse phone number lookup, phone call recording, lookup anonymous caller, and private texting and calling. Phoner supports international calling and texting, SMS and MMS capability and much more!
+ Protect your privacy and make calls and text with a free second phone number without giving away your REAL phone number.
+ Free texting between Phoner users and cheaper calling rates between Phoner users.
+ Lookup anonymous caller id before picking up calls to prevent spoof callers. Provides private texting and calling without worrying and revealing your real primary number. Change your phone line as often as you like.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 6.58 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.58, updated 2026-09-16.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 8.71.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.71.1, updated 2026-09-14.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
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 at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes 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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 502 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 502 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 (9 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.
“RIPOFF DONT DO IT. ONLY TEXTS TO SOME NUMBERS WORK BUT IT SAYS THEY ARE ALL SUCCESSFUL. INUNDATED WITH ADS EVEN IF YOU PAY. APP SUCKS. CREATORS NEED TO BE EXECUTED. PATHETIC”
“Too many ads and you have to pay for EVERYTHING after the first text”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.58.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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