What is TextNow? As a wireless network, TextNow offers an all-encompassing phone service within an app. It’s different from other popular communication apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Skype because it ...

How TextNow helped me break up with my costly mobile carrier. Free unlimited talk, text, and essential data, affordable add-on data, and zero contract. Could TextNow be for real? I took it for a spin.

TextNow is a free calling and texting service that lets you make unlimited calls in the U.S. and Canada using 5G or Wi-Fi networks. The app’s minimal features and ad-cluttered interface limit ...

But the real game-changer is the ability to use apps like Gmail, Google Maps, and Uber for free over TextNow’s cellular signal.

Waterloo-based TextNow provides an alternative to traditional phone plans through TextNow Wireless and its free TextNow app, which provide a combination of Wi-Fi and cellular for texting and calling.

TextNow is also unveiling flexible video calling that allows users to start high quality video calls with anyone - even if they don’t have the TextNow app.

Tristan Huntington vividly remembers when he and the rest of his team at TextNow realized their free calling-and-texting app was being abused. It was 2011 and their Waterloo, Ont.-based startup ...

TextNow is disrupting the traditional phone carrier model, taking on the big telecom players with more affordable plans and using its proprietary software that switches seamlessly between Wi-Fi ...