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Rating Distribution

Overall Customer Rating and Sentiment

TextNow has a 1.8 star rating from 524 reviews; 11% would recommend and consumers are mostly dissatisfied.

Key Takeaways for Future Customers

  • Expect common issues with SIM activation, porting, and reliability based on TextNow reviews.
  • Prepare for limited live support and extended resolution times for billing or subscription problems.
  • Many users request refunds and dispute charges; track payments and receipts closely.

Negative Feedback / Risk Areas

  • Frequent mentions of poor customer service and inability to reach a human representative.
  • Reports of unexpected charges, billing errors, and difficulty obtaining refunds for subscriptions.
  • Service reliability problems: lost numbers, disabled accounts, SIMs not arriving or not working.

Positive Feedback

Users note a free phone number and low-cost options; the service can work on Wi‑Fi for basic texting and calling needs.

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John C Tmj
map-marker Stokesdale, North Carolina

Need help now

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Want my number returned site went into a restart mode on its own and glitched out my number I use it for business

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Pros:
  • Minor
Cons:
  • Have been there for me awhile

Preferred solution: Help to get my d number back

User's recommendation: Do not use your text in high randoms sequence

Adrian G Leu

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| map-marker Pacoima, California

Overcharged

TextNow - Overcharged

I am getting charged $1.99 and didn't give permission. I was charged $1.99 twice in one day. I want to be refunded and my account closed.

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Loss:
$6
Pros:
  • Good for a temporary way of communicating with family or friends
Cons:
  • Was charged for service i did not want or authorize

Preferred solution: Full refund

Jeffrey Jarrell

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| map-marker San Diego, California

Login issues

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Updated by user Feb 15, 2026

I messaged them and told them about my 2FA issue im having with them and the sent me a link to the g./recover page (which i have already tried) and nothing got resolved. i dont think that they get the question im asking them when alls i need is to get the 2FA code that is being sent by google, but my text now number that is linked with google sends an authentication code to text now and vice versa.

im at a loss here, all of my information (bank accounts, google drive, etc.) are on the account jarrelljeff99@***.com. All of my pictures, my resume, EVERYTHING is GONE....

Original review Feb 12, 2026

i am trying to gain access to my text now profile under the phone number 619754**** and am unable to receive the verification code to my gmail because it is currently locked due to the 2FA and need access so i can access the verification code sent by google. please respond back asap it would be greatly appreciated. thank you

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Pros:
  • Free calls via wifi
Cons:
  • Dont use them for a verification method for googles 2fa

Preferred solution: back into my account so i can verify my google acct.

Jeasy G

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| map-marker Owensboro, Kentucky

Having issues with my text now SIM card that I got yesterday with unlimited text and talk

It's not working and my phone is unlocked so and I'm having issues of hit I was having the data my SIM card was working until today and somehow another just quit working

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Loss:
$4

Preferred solution: A lot to for my service to be fixed that the SIM card that I bought to be activate or reset to this phone

ROXXY W

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| map-marker Miami, Florida

Porting

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I'm trying to port my number out of TextNow and into my Helium phone service account, but it says it did it, but it never did! I need it porting out!

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Loss:
$7

Preferred solution: Port out #

User's recommendation: Fine but don't port out anything

Kimberly W Ldl

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I purchased the sin card and died not work says to contact customer service

I paid 3.99 for a SIM card, and now my phone is locked. It says to contact customer service, but there is no human service.

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Loss:
$3
Cons:
  • Phone locked

Preferred solution: I would simply like the sim card i purchased from text now to actually work

User's recommendation: Sucks

Anonymous
map-marker Dallas, Texas

Text now is not working on my phone

I cant get my textnow data..says activated cant text or call. Phone is unlocked and shows bars set the apn but when I receive calls and can even call out.. but hear nothing when I make the call

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Tyler G Vrk

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| map-marker Nashville, Tennessee

Wrong address on sim card order

Wrong address got typed in and now I need to fix that so I can receive my SIM card. I have tried using the in-app chat bot, but it was completely unhelpful and very frustrating because all I need is someone to fix the address on my order. So I'm hoping this email is going to be able to help me resolve the issue I'm having.

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Loss:
$5
Pros:
  • Great price for phone service
Cons:
  • Bad customer service

Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered

Resolved
Wes J Aby

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| map-marker Dora, Alabama

Resolved: No sim card

Updated by user Dec 05, 2025

Company fixed the issue and I have been provided with product or service ordered. It was resolved.

What more you need from here thank you.

Im done with this. Sorry.

Original review Nov 17, 2025

Where's my SIM card? It's been well past the allotted days you originally told me.

On the third, you sent me an email stating on the 3rd of Nov. saying you sent my SIM card out. It's now the 17th.

I'm no genius; however, I'm sure that's 5 days past the latest expected day you gave. Considering I paid for this and still haven't received it, please let me know something.

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Loss:
$723
Pros:
  • Free wifi calling
Cons:
  • No service away from wifi

Preferred solution: Deliver product or service ordered

User's recommendation: Questionable

Robert C Ila
map-marker Chester, Pennsylvania

Trying to get the number back

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I got a new phone and took a SIM card out of the phone and put it in this phone, and now my number's gone. I need that number for my lawyers and my doctors, please and thank you.

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Eartha Uch

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645824 stop attempting to charge me because it gives me a 20 fee from my bank. Vester Lee Robinson Jr is my name and I don't use Text Now no more

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Stop attempting to charge me for using Text Now I don't use your service anymore. My name is Vester Lee Robinson Jr and y'all gave me a 626 phone number. Every time you do this and it declined it charges me 20.00 from my back.

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User's recommendation: Don't use Text Now it's messing up my credit

Balin Zkk

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ABSOLUTELY NO CUST SVC

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I have a text now SIM card in my phone which enables me to make calls even though I'm not in a Wi-Fi area well all the sudden I went to go send a text when I wasn't in Wi-Fi and it wouldn't let me so I kept trying and I thought was just a certain number and so I went on the support the bot told me to delete the app and redownload it well when I did that my neighbor had been reassign messages on my page were from 2020 and it was a living *** and then it got to where it was the right page again but yeah I couldn't make calls outside of Wi-Fi and I was on support chat back and forth for almost an hour and a half and guess what it still wasn't resolved until I finally figured it out on my own so it's great if you don't need to make calls outside of Wi-Fi but if you're going to spend money on a SIM card that says that's what you get that's what you should download get and right now I'm not well I am now but it's been over a week of nothing but sheer terror and tears and frustration

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User's recommendation: Just don't expect much there's obviously no customer service phone number all this is back and forth text me back and forth and believing that could be so tired so so don't set your standards too high

Derron Lsz

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| map-marker Fairfield, California

Undependable, Unreliable, Foreign Alien Company that Won't Abide by US Consumer Rules

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Updated by user Oct 28, 2025

Avoid this company. Although they have a better than average signal for a VOIP provider, this foreign Canadian company can not be trusted, and they can shut off your service at any time, and for no apparent reason. Best to avoid them.

Original review Oct 13, 2025

Textnow frequently will place a 24 hour restriction/hold on your account without any apparent reason, or permanently disconnect your account for no apparent reason. You can't call them, or at least not without great difficulty, and when you do get someone on the phone, they refer you to the chat forums instead of fixing your phone service.

TextNow believes they are above the law, and will not respond to US FCC complaints.

Apparently their foreign Canadian headquarters believes that the FCC doesn't apply to them because they are in Canada.

Their signal is good, but the company is too unreliable to trust with your every day business dealings to be taken seriously as a primary source of telecommunication service. Best to avoid them.

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User's recommendation: Avoid this company

Dara N Tyd
map-marker Seattle, Washington

I want a refund

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I paid for a SIM card over a year ago, and I never got it. I've been asking for it and talking to somebody at customer service, going back and forth for a couple of weeks now, and sent them screenshots of my payments more than once.

I gave them my shipping address again to get a replacement more than once, and now all of a sudden, I'm talking to somebody new, and they're acting like they don't know what I'm talking about. Today, I noticed that they took my phone number that I have been paying for on subscription and replaced it with a new number. Now, I am very upset, and I want a refund. I don't care about the SIM card anymore, so I called customer support and went through the chatbot, and I never got anybody.

Then, I called them from his consumer, and I never got a human, and they just hung up. I am very unhappy; I want my money back.

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Loss:
$30
Pros:
  • Free talk and text with voip number if you have internet or wifi access
Cons:
  • Avoid you
  • Take your money without giving you what uou paid for without any notice or reason for it any
  • Play stupid

Preferred solution: Full refund

User's recommendation: Dont do business with them unless you dont mind getting ripped off.

Lesheba O

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Refund

I purchased a SIM card for 4.99 on August 31, 2025, and I have not received my SIM card. I would like a refund.

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Loss:
$5
Pros:
  • Good service

Preferred solution: Full refund

Isreal J Ger

That phone number is *** it doesn't help you at all it just tells you to go online and that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid because it's not helping me I need to talk to somebody I got this si

Online services have failed to help me with my SIM card, and I'm super frustrated. It's been going on for like 24 hours, and I just please need help from a human.

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Pros:
  • I dont know
Cons:
  • Online support seems to just give me the runaround

Preferred solution: Help getting my SIM card activated properly so it works

User's recommendation: Get ready for frustration

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