“Go with Skype — From the constant ads to shotty calls, and similar prices for minutes just get a more reputable app. Was better when I first started to use it but it’s just went so bad.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 504 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★22,237 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
202 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Unlimited free calls & texts via WiFi or cellular data, no cell minutes needed, all with the TalkU FREE calling app. Save 90% on international calls and texts.
With the FREE phone numbers TalkU offers, you can make free WiFi calls & cheap international calls to any phone number over WiFi or cellular data without using any cell minutes and without roaming fees!
Features: * Free & unlimited calling and texting between TalkU users * Cheap international calls to over 200 countries worldwide * Free domestic & international SMS text messaging * Turn your iPad & iPod into a phone by installing TalkU * Get real phone numbers for free * Add new lines to your phone
◆ Free WiFi Calls & Text Messages With TalkU, you can make free calls and send free text messages to any phone number worldwide! Calling & texting between TalkU users are always free!…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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.
This analysis describes version 4.7.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.7.0, updated 2021-11-05.
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 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
3 or more 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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 4
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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 504 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 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 504 reviews scanned)
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 9 distinct reviewers (1.8% of 504 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.
“App is REALLY BAD — Ads are CONSTANT, they regularly CHEAT customers out of credits, they LIE about credits. I could go on all day. Save yourself & don’t bother. I have never given a one star or negative review like this.”
“0 stars — Would not recommend at all bad you have to watch videos and don’t even get coins so many ads to not get coins they make you do surveys and other stuff that’s not time consuming”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.7.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$3.99
Highest$20.99
Phone Number Pack(1 Week)$5.99
Phone Number(1 Week)$3.99
Phone Number Pack(1 Month)$9.99
Small Credits Package$4.99
200 Credits$3.99
Show 4 more purchases
Large Credits Package$20.99
Medium Credits Package$11.99
500 Credits$9.99
TalkU Phone Number$4.99