Excuse us, while we TURN THE TEXTING WORLD ON ITS HEAD!!
Textfree Unlimited was $5.99 and now it’s FREE on SALE!! No messaging limits, no yearly fees. Plus Textfree is the ONLY app that gives you a real phone number to text with.
How can we afford to do this? Good question. The phone number was really hard to do, and it costs real money to give people phone numbers. So in exchange for getting a phone number, Textfree has some ads.
Why this is cool:
- You get a phone number which means texting is as reliable as texting from a real phone…
- …Yet you don’t even NEED a phone!
- If you have a phone, now you don’t have to pay $20 a month for unlimited texting.
If you already had Textfree Unlimited:
- We’ve done away with yearly fees. You’ll never have to pay for unlimited texting again.
- When you update to Textfree Unlimited 3.4, you have the OPTION to get a phone number.
- If you CHOOSE a phone number, you agree to get ads.
- If you REALLY hate ads, you have the option to buy them out.
Pretty awesome!
Get Textfree Unlimited FREE in the iTunes App Store.
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May 28, 2010 at 2:56 pm
plz give those who BOUGHT this something free because that is bs that we pay 5.99 and now everyone gets this for free how about picfree for free?
June 3, 2010 at 10:16 am
Everyone should be able to get picfree for free.
June 3, 2010 at 10:17 am
I wish we could get picfree for free
June 4, 2010 at 5:06 pm
So sorry for the delay guys! I’ve started writing this response at least 5 times already, and each time I get pulled into something else…
Where to start… let’s see if I can summarize before I get distracted again!
Many people (like you) paid for Textfree Unlimited before it was free. When you downloaded Textfree 3.4, you got an option to get a phone number, and because phone numbers are actually very expensive, in exchange for the phone number you agreed to see ads. (New users do not get the option – we give them a phone number and they see ads automatically.)
Making Textfree free means:
– You didn’t get cheated – you still have what you paid for: free and unlimited texting. And you got to use it before it was free. And hopefully you saved $20/month while you were using it (AT&T’s price for unlimited texting).
– We are able to remove the yearly fees (so you never have to pay for Textfree again).
– We’ve been able to take advantage of “economies of scale” and add a HUGE amount of servers, and can handle an UNBELIEVABLE amount of traffic — far more than we could have handled before. (Making Textfree arguably THE most reliable texting app in the store.)
– You got the option of getting a phone number, which means texting is now as fast and reliable as any carrier’s texting service (but free).
– There’ll be a LOT more people you can text with now.
– We just announced this week that soon you’ll be able to use your Textfree phone number to make and receive phone calls(!!!) If you’re an iPod touch user, you won’t even need a phone because it’ll work over WiFi — so no more paying carriers (yay!)
I hope you can see, we’ve been working really hard to make a LOT of people very happy and to create value for ALL of our users. It’s a steal, really. Is there a smile on your face yet? Even a tiny one?
~ Your friends at Pinger
July 9, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Hey Pinger, I’m not mad at ya’ll for making it free (I was going to have a yearly $6 fee), but of course the existing customers were going to want a phone number over not seeing ads (who sanely wouldn’t choose the free option?). It would be nice if the people who paid for textfree could get a year (or longer if you like…haha) of no ads because that now costs $5.99 & Textfree used to cost that same amount.
Thanks,
Zachary Kolk
July 31, 2010 at 12:52 pm
When will pinger come out with the new update?
December 19, 2010 at 12:40 am
does this show up on my texting statement?
January 13, 2011 at 9:25 am
How do you get more minutes on your ipod for Textfree with voice from Pinger. Really love the app
March 21, 2011 at 11:23 pm
I have a couple questions.
What is the option to “get a phone number without ads” (0.99).? You can see it in the “in-app purchases” section in the app store.
And will there ever be an option to remove the missed call ad? When people call my number and if I’m not in a wifi area or missed their call they say a lady comes out saying something about this number being a textfree number and that they should hang up first before she hangs up on them or something… And finally it doesn’t even give them an option to leave a voice message. Anything on that? I really hope I could remove the ad at the end of a missed call…