“Trash and nothing but Ads — Nothing loads. Every screen is blank and black besides the ads they try to feed you. It’s like they aren’t event trying. I hope they blow this entire app up. I literally needed this just to make a new email…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 550 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★674,312 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
230 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
The Best FREE TEXTING App on the Store with FREE CALLING and FREE PHONE NUMBERS
- Need a new phone plan for FREE calling & texting to any number in US & Canada? - Need to protect your privacy and are looking for a second phone number? - Want a second or local phone number for dating & side projects? - Want to call & text to your international friends & relatives at a very low and affordable cost?
==> TextMe is your reliable & free all-in-one solution!
Trusted by millions of users, TextMe is the market-leading provider of private custom phone numbers in the US & Canada. With TextMe your calls & texts to any number in the US & Canada are totally free!
No hidden cost, no catch!…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 3.55.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.55.0, updated 2026-09-20.
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 no price and 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
80–89% 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.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
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: Raised by 29 distinct reviewers — 5.3% of the 550 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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 8 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 550 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“not great... — Laggs a lot, too many adds, and very confusing 😵 I don't get why people like this app because when I tried to log in it keeper lagging with all the adds.I don't love this app because I can't even add people and when I…”
“3 stars — Too many ads”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.55.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.