Free phone numbers for SMS verification

A free number is a public inbox: it is published on a web page, and every visitor reads every SMS that arrives on it. That makes it useful for exactly one thing — checking that a message gets sent — and risky for everything else, because whoever reads your code can finish your signup or reset the account later.

We don't publish free numbers. A list of shared numbers would hand strangers the accounts people create with them, and the popular ones are already registered on most apps. Instead, each page below explains free vs paid for one app and shows the cheapest private number that actually receives its code — from $0.01, refunded automatically if nothing arrives.

Free vs paid, by app

Private options