Textoo Free SMS Lite app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 5938 ratings )

Utilities Social Networking
Developer: Kiran Kumar

Free

Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 02 Aug 2011
App size: 8.34 Mb

***** This is the lite version of Textoo Pro, the popular app for sending free SMS ****

This app sends free SMS using public SMS web gateways. Many of the gateways support full 160 character messages without ads. The message gets delivered in less than 10 seconds.
First, create a working account in any of the gateways listed below and then enter your credentials onto the app. You are good to go.

SMS GATEWAYS SUPPORTED :
1. freesmscraze.com (Worldwide free SMS)
2. Way2sms.com (India only)
3. 160by2.com (India, Gulf, Singapore )
4. indyarocks.com (India)
5. whozzat.com (India)
6. fullonsms.com (India)
7. New gateways and fast proxy support for GPRS users. (refer screenshot)

IS IT REALLY FREE ?
10,00,000 free messages have already been sent using Textoo over the past 1 year .All you need to do is goto the gateway website in the app and register an account on their website. And then sign in to your account using this app to send free International SMS.

WHATS NEW IN TEXTOO free SMS Lite:
1. A brand new custom designed UI with retina support
2. Native support for group messages, select as many contacts as you want, even if the gateway doesnt support group SMS
4. Message threaded view
5. Automatic message slicing based on gateway character limit. The sliced message will get sent as individual messages.

FREE SMS TO :
Afghanistan (+93), Australia (+61), Bahrain (+973), Bangladesh (+880), Belgium (+32), Bulgaria (+359), Canada (+1), China (+86), Denmark (+45), Egypt (+20), France (+33), Germany (+49), Greece (+30), Hong Kong (+852), Iceland (+354), India (+91), Indonesia (+62), Iran (+98), Ireland (+353), Italy (+39), Japan (+81), Jordan (+962), Kuwait (+965), Libya (+218), Madagascar (+261), Malaysia (+60), Nepal (+977), Netherlands (+31), New Zealand (+64), Nigeria (+234), Norway (+47), Oman (+968), Pakistan (+92), Philippines (+63), Poland (+48), Qatar (+974), Romania (+40), Russia (+7), SaudiArabia (+966), Singapore (+65), SouthAfrica (+27), SouthKorea (+82), Spain (+34), Sri Lanka (+94), Sudan (+249), Swaziland (+268), Sweden (+46), Switzerland (+41), Taiwan (+886), Thailand (+66), Turkey (+90), United States (USA) (+1), United Kingdom (+44), United Arab Emirates (UAE) (+971), Yemen (+967)

HOW DOES IT WORK ?
This application allows you to send free SMS/text messaged using web gateways. The application connects to the gateway server through the internet and sends your message for free.
The application can be used after creating an account on the gateways website and then entering the credentials or any other info required by the gateway into the application.

DISCUSS ABOUT TEXTOO:
If you have any web to sms gateway specific for your country and would like to add it to Textoo,head over to the textoo forum at http://textoo.in/forum and create a topic under feature requests.

LIMITATIONS OF THE LITE VERSION OVER PRO:
1. Number of accounts are limited to 5 in number
2. Displays ads which are visible on every screen
3. Landscape mode is not supported.
4. Multi select contacts and message queuing are not supported

Pros and cons of Textoo Free SMS Lite app for iPhone and iPad

Textoo Free SMS Lite app good for

This app let u send free sms to india. This is awesome app i ever get. Thanks

Im using way2sms gateway it is working 100% perfect this is so valuable to everybody

This app is mind blowing absolutely unbelievable. I can text the middle east (Jordan) 1000 times a day for freee. This is my favorite app yet . Thank you for making this possible.

So far I like it. It works. But if turned off then recipients dont get the msgs or may b they r delayed a lot .

I really keep my friends in touch with me....thnx to this app..

Some bad moments

Hate broken apps. Wondering how apple approve this on app store

Unable to add a gateway as some syntax error showing up on ios 5.1

In the beginning itself errors and failing to add gateway account.

Junk beyond belief. Even the setup to the servers returned an error.

This application is very poorly designed, deviates (badly) from a good UI experience, and is critically defective in the way it stores and sends passwords. The UI is messy everywhere, you can even "delete" the "add account" link in settings. Makes no sense and neither does the shoddy progress bar that appears below each message bubble. Very slow user experience, the author has tried to make it too over-the-top with growl-style notifications but nothing looks good so far. It can be made into a very beautiful app, please fix this. Secondly, the reason it "works" is because the SMS provider website works (like way2sms) and not because of the app itself. When you add way2sms as a provider (not the way2sms proxy) it forcefully uses the proxy server without even letting you know. The proxy server operates on a GET request that sends everything including the password, dest. number, and sms message in clear plaintext as part of the URL to the server. This is really dangerous. Do not use this app atleast until this is fixed –– or your way2sms passwords will be compromised. Apple should not have approved this dangerous app in the first place. Author, please fix, and get a better UI where we can atleast see the buttons clearly.

Cant compose any message as the screen is blank. No address bar or input area. UI needs some polishing as well. Dysfunctional product.

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