Top 10 Sites to Receive SMS Online Without a Phone [2023]
Many websites these days ask you to provide some form of verification when you want to sign up to a service. This includes most things like shopping sites, email accounts, discussion forums, gaming services, blogs, social media and etc. Basic forms of verification are just supplying an email address or perhaps solving a captcha to confirm you are a real person and not a spam bot.
Other forms of verification can try to be a bit more secure by requiring you to enter more personal information like a name, address or zip code. Another method to try and identify you are a legitimate user is phone verification which usually comes in the form of an SMS message with a code sent to your mobile phone. The problem with that is not everyone can or wants to hand over their own phone number.
Some important services might use more secure two factor authentication where it would make more sense to use your real phone number. But for other things that are not so important or just require a one time verification, using a number that is not tied to your own phone might be preferable. Thankfully, there are websites that offer services where you can get a text message sent to another phone number.
Using an online SMS receive service is easy, simply note down the number provided and give it to the service or individual that requires a number to send the message. After a short period of time, the message you are waiting for should appear. Do note that these messages are not private or secure and can be seen by anyone, so make sure no personal information is going to be received.
Here we list 10 websites that offer a free SMS message receiving service which allows you to get text messages sent to you without using a real phone.
How We Tested The Numbers
To verify if these services worked, we simply sent a message to the listed number via Skype SMS, World Text SMS or the aFreeSms Text Messaging Service. Usually one worked if another didn’t. If the service had no more than eight or maybe ten numbers, we tried to test them all. If there were more numbers than that we tried a random selection of six or seven, usually from different countries where possible.
1. Sellaite SMS RECEIVER
Sellaite SMS RECEIVER has been around for several years and is different from most of the other services here because it uses three phone numbers from Estonia (country code +372). They seem to be quite fast at taking down offline numbers and replacing them with working numbers, which should help with reliability.
All three numbers worked fine and received messages within ten or so seconds. A great feature here is the voice messaging option where you can receive and play messages from voice based phone verification. Play and Stop buttons will be visible on the title bar of messages with voice playback. Note the Send SMS button on the main page points to a paid service.
2. FreePhoneNum
FreePhoneNum has a sizeable selection of twenty seven numbers available although they are all from two countries. The United States has twenty one numbers and Canada has six. We tested five US and three Canadian numbers at random and all were received within a few seconds.
A text sending service is available where you can send up to 5 messages to US/Canada numbers per day. There is also a free voice call service on the website where you can use your speakers/microphone for a two way phone call. Again, this is only to North American +1 international code numbers.
3. FreeTempSMS
FreeTempSMS appears to be from India and has a total of eight numbers. Six are for the United States and two are for Canada.
At the time of writing, all eight numbers worked fine and all SMS messages were received within a few seconds. There is a registration option but we couldn’t work out what it’s for because it doesn’t seem to do anything and there is no information.
4. SMS-Online
There are eight phone numbers available with SMS-Online, one each from the United States, Puerto Rico, France, Malaysia, Indonesia and Sweden. The United Kingdom has two numbers. Just click the Open button for any country to see the messages list. Do note there is usually a VPN ad at the top of the messages list so you might have to look below that to see your SMS message.
The only number we had trouble with was one of the two from the UK. The rest seemed to work OK so in effect we had seven working countries with one number each. You can subscribe with an email to be notified when new numbers are added. The service is multi language and supports special character like Chinese or Cyrillic. Emojis are also supported
5. Twilio
Twilio is not going to be for everyone and you really don’t need it for just a few SMS messages. It requires registering for a trial account but ironically you have to supply a phone number for verification. One of the other services here might receive the SMS but most numbers will already have been used. Otherwise, you will have to decide if giving your real phone number to Twilio is worth it.
The Twilio trial account gives you about $16 of free credit. $1 will be spent by adding a number to your account or changing to a new one. One active number is allowed for trial accounts. To add a number click the red “Get a trial number” button in the dashboard. A US number is the default but you can choose another country through the search function.
Click on All Products and Services > Programmable SMS to go to the SMS dashboard and view any messages that have been received. We used a US number and it costs $0.0075 to receive each message. Numbers for other countries may differ. It appears that $1 will be deducted from your credit for each month the number is in use. The trial account of Twilio can also send messages but only to verified numbers.
The big advantage of Twilio over the other services here is all received messages are only viewable by anyone that knows the login credentials. Therefore, it is much safer if you want to receive personal or private messages.
6. Fakenum
Fakenum has five numbers listed which are all in the United States. Simply click the “Receive Free SMS” button and then on one of the numbers you want to use. Press the “Show my SMS Message” button or refresh the page to view new incoming messages.
When we tested, four of the five numbers worked. Messages didn’t take long to arrive and were displayed within a few seconds. It’s unlikely to work for you but this was the only free SMS service we found that was accepted by Twilio for phone verification. Could be worth keeping an eye on these numbers if you are trying to get a Twilio trial account.
7. Online-sms
Online-SMS boasts around seventy numbers coming from fourteen countries. These include the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Poland, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark and Latvia. We tested a random selection of seven working numbers from the US, France, Belgium, UK and Poland.
With this many numbers available there’s a very good chance some or even many will not be working at any one time. Check the last message received time to get an idea of what is currently active (don’t trust the on page “online” status). Do be aware that during testing some messages were taking 30 minutes or more to arrive. A few numbers were receiving within a couple of minutes but most did take some time.
Another service that uses the same API or was developed by the same company is 7Sim.net. It looks very much the same as Online-sms but has far fewer working numbers.
8. Receive-SMS
Receive-SMS has been around for several years and is, in fact, one of a couple of sites that still works from our original article in 2013 (the other was Sellaite). It used to have six European based numbers but now there are four from the United States. The latest messages from all numbers are merged into the bottom of the main window.
We found that three of the four numbers worked fine but the fourth hadn’t been active for a few months or more. There is an option to get notified by email when new numbers are added although they might not change that often because the inactive number has been offline for quite a while. Paid private numbers are available if you need more from your SMS receiving service.
9. Sms-verification
This service has three numbers which are all from the United States. When messages are received from any of those numbers they appear in a merged list in the lower part of the main window.
During testing, all three numbers worked fine and each received an SMS message within a few seconds. Receive-SMS.com links directly to this service on some of its pages so they both appear to be run by the same company or are at least using the same API.
10. Mytrashmobile
Mytrashmobile only has three active numbers, one each from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. In some ways, this is good because there are fewer numbers to try and maintain and keep online. Click the dropdown to choose the country and number, then press Receive. Note the message receive times are UTC -04:00.
While we have received messages from all three numbers, they weren’t all working at the same time during any one session. The USA number, however, did seem to work consistently. There are Android and iOS apps available and links to other related sites for spoofing texts, emails, WhatsApp and phone calls.
Another useful resource to check is called The SMS Bay. This website doesn’t have its own numbers but lists several SMS receiving services and their active numbers in a table that is supposedly updated every five minutes. Some are already listed here but quite a few are not. The Texts and Age columns don’t appear very accurate so it’s best just to go to the linked website and check for activity yourself.
Final Note: Even if some of them appear to be working, the phone numbers that are used to receive SMS messages online can still be easily blocked using TeleSign’s PhoneID that can identify the type of the provided telephone number such as VoIP, fixed landline, mobile and etc.
You can also be prevented from using one of these numbers for phone verification because someone else has already used it and a unique or lesser used number might be needed. If that is the case there is little option but to keep trying different numbers until you find one that works.
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Textr has a free receive SMS online tool for 7 countries, Netherlands, UK, Canada, US, Australia, Sweden and Austria. Try it out for free. It also has a free trial of 7 days with unlimited mins calls and messages.
Hello,
Please add my website on your list, sms-express.uk, we have more than 180 Numbers online, is free and not requinte registration.
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you can use to receive sms online using this site receivesmsverify.com to verify using temp number
None of them provide NORWAY number. Any idea where I can find a site/app that provides NORWAY number to receive SMS
Try this one.
receiveonlinesms.com
Works Nice.
For me fastpva.com is the cheapest site out there, includes many country numbers,but I need more similar sites, cheap ones, who can share
The best site I know of is getfreetext.com
Google voice service are available here..??
Hello, do you know if receive-sms.org works?
Regards
actually this advise of your doesnt work at all especially in asia
Try smspool.net for every service possible. Support is very active too!
Non of this interest me at all.. I need a site that I can input the phone number and get OTP sms of this phone number online. Not getting random numbers.. What if I need and OTP sent to a friend sms inbox. That’s the real deal please
I can receive code for you. What site you pay by btc or pm
hey Sky. I have a Verizon number I need to receive code for message plus app.
Sup dude. Have got interest.
i need this too, can you do it for me?
Soji, Kindly let me know if you find solution to your question. Thanks
New free receive sms : numbersms.com
can you add fakenum.io to your list
The site won’t load for me.. Maybe it’s inactive?
can try this so far i used it almost half year receive sms online free and the site owner will updated new number every week no registration safe and good smscode-receive.com
Link you gave didn’t work..
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Another great site to add to this list is BounceSMS.com. Not only can you receive messages there but you can also send them if you need to…all 100% FREE! Also if you are a webmaster or you have your own blog they have a nice SMS Widget for you: bouncesms.com/widget.php
For sure you will love the site if you give it a chance…
Later
very good sms site — reallysms.com
I’m searching for sites to do VoIP where i can use PayPal, i Just Need One SMS, i found onlinesim.ru and pvacodes.com but they doesnt have much numbers, can someone tell me some others sites? cheap voips Just for an SMS thx
Anveo.com does VOIP and paypal.
quackr.io has premium numbers that you can rent out for a week or a month. They are non-voip so they work for PayPal, Telegram etc. Worth checking out
Does anyone know an equivalent to textverified?
Almost 99% of these aren’t accepted say at Creditkarma…only textverified seems to work.
any suggestions would be so appreciated.
Love from Toronto !
I managed to use receivesms365.com with creditkarma no problem.
verifycode.us
Does anyone know good site for australian verification numbers for paypal and ebay?
Found another website: receive-sms.io
This website is super fast. I got the verification code in real time and able to verify my Google account.
Most perfect for calling in any country is Sonotel, app.sonetel.com/register
Is it possible to receive a call using Twilio???
Does it activate InboxDollars?
can i get sms verification for Taiwan or Thailand
Yes, To get it for free
Visit smartdigics.com
can you provide any number of japan country
Receive SMSs Free Online
A great way to receive sms for free without any account
receivesmss.com
Also I know good a website with temporary free numbers for verification. I use it sometimes smsreceive.eu
You can get a disposable phone number on textita.com to bypass phone verifiction
Great!
I am using that kind of sites for SMS activation for social media platforms, but can i use them to active a paypal account? is it safe? paypal is not supported in my country, thanks.
ps. you can also add onlinesmsbox.com to your list, it is a good alternative, not too much number but at least it is working.
December 17, 2019
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These websites may be out of date, their numbers are no longer working properly, you can try this website yaysms.com, it is completely free.
It also has the numbers of many countries such as USA, Canada, Hong Kong, China, UK, Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Poland, Israel, Germany, Belgium and so on.
I’ve been looking at several sites that are listed here but I think one of the missing ones and is one of the most important is RECEIVE-SMS.ORG
To borrow from your platform, I would like to share with you a free platform. I hope that this sharing can help more people. us-phone-number.com
Here free numbers every day sms24.me
sms24.me doesn’t work, I used the number for Google, but no matter how many times I refresh the number page, no new SMS messages appear, I cannot get my code, been over half an hour now, no new SMS messages on that number, latest SMS always says 3 hours ago. Useless.
I’m assuming that perhaps the received SMS messages are fake, that the real purpose of getting you to that page is for them to make money by serving many ads on that page as you continually click the “Refresh Page” button, they are getting ad views, and thus making money this way.
See my previous comment, I’ve been refreshing that page and there are no new SMS messages, ad serving is surely the primary motive.
sms24 works or at least some of the numbers do. I just tried a couple of numbers and the SMS was received within a few seconds each time.
You have to realize these services can be VERY hit and miss, that doesn’t mean they are fake. It’s not just whether the number works but also whether it has actually received the SMS from the sender.
That’s why we had to test using three different SMS sending services.
Hit/miss for sure, Google accepted the number, told me to come back with the code, but hours later now, still no code, just lotta Miss, I guess…
by this link receive-sms.club youcan take free numbers)
There is another one for free e-mails aswell. You can basically set up free Two factor authentication everywhere. vsimcard.com
there is another one, pingme.tel/receive-sms-online/, they publish new free numbers every month.
receive-sms.club new site that allows you to receive SMS
I use the services of a virtual SMS number with Hottelecom, it suits me. I haven’t tried anything else yet, but thanks for the list and an interesting article, I will work on it.
not working for outlook
temp-sms.org is the best imo. You should put it on the list
Textverified.com works great for US numbers
Found new service smstools.online
Thanks for sharing the list. Earlier, I was using ringcaptcha.com whenever I wanted to authenticate with the SMS services. But, now I have the list of different sites to get verified in the least amount of time. Thanks again!
Try receivesms.cc for UK numbers, more added weekly, with new countries soon.
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Hey thx for this great post.
My favorite site with over 200 phone numbers is receivesms.co
Thanks, man! You Rock!!
if the desired Chinese and Russian numbers, then you can try onlinesim.ru
and there is free
Hi! SMS service Qealty.ru – Receiving SMS Online
groovl.com
US and UK real mobile numbers for sms
hs3x.com also better
and if you want private and dedicated number getsmscode.com that Awesome
smsver.com – Free service to receive USA, UK, Europe SMS online!
Thx for the pointer. Worked fantastic.
thank you
sms.ndtan.net << this site working well send and receive sms :)
sms-empfangen.com ist a good german “Receive SMS site”. It have German and Austrian free Simcards
Hey thank you its very useful link
thank you my dear,@Christain i think among all that is posted here you are the one that gave me what i want, this German number work so perfectly thank you so much
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I tried all these sites and numbers and about 98% of them are considered “used goods” and or “the well is dried up”! I’ve been trying to verify my Youtube account so I can open more options for my channel (make longer videos, etc) and even they are telling me that the numbers are used too many times and associated with too many other accounts…I think they caught on! For the numbers that DID work, Youtube/google rejects them from going out to the sms account where you read the PIN number online. Unless someone can make a keygen or something that the numbers change every few minutes and are valid..seems like a big waste of time (as far as verification for a youtube channel) for other unimportant sites this obviously works.
That’s because the jerks at Google are actively trying to keep people from using these type of services. I had to try several different services, and use the newer phone numbers, to get Google to accept. I don’t know what is going on over there, but the leadership at Google are getting way too much into people’s business. If they don’t change their ways, it will cost them (assuming people have enough backbone to stand up to them).
I for one am going to tell everyone I know what a piece of crap this new Chromebook is — just because Google tried to force me to give them my personal info they have no business getting. I don’t care if I actually end up loving the thing, my first impression is so tainted it is a piece of crap. At that is what everyone will hear from me!
This is a great list — thank you!
You are way too generous puppeting the “it is more secure” claim these services make for using phone verification over e-mail. But that line is so much bull! They want your information so they can use and sell it as they please! They discovered that people are using anonymous and disposable e-mail addresses, so they moved to something that is harder to get around.
OK, for an optional service I kind of get it. Don’t want them to know who you are, don’t use the service. But for services that are required to make a device work properly (think Chromebook, Android, iPhone/iPad, etc) it is so wrong! If I don’t want those marketing creeps to have my personal info, I should not have to jump thorough all sorts of hoops to keep it from them!
Creeps — and I do mean that. Actually, the words I want to use are much stronger. Notice how they are now trying to block disposable e-mail addresses and public SMS numbers? I just used one of these numbers for Google and it came up with a “that number has been used too many times” error. The ONLY reason they build this logic into their code is to try to force people to submit.
So again — THANK YOU for this list! We all need to fight back and let those creeps know that we will not submit!
Preach! Creeps indeed. Google already knows our IPs, browser type and operating system. They already know our browsing habits. They know what videos we enjoy watching. They can, and do, scan all of our Gmail inbox. And the people who are dumb enough to carry around an Android device let Google build a nice map of where they went and when.
And here’s the punchline: on top of ALL that, greedy Google ALSO wants our phone numbers? What for, blackmail? Tracking us better? As if the above wasn’t enough? Creeps indeed.
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THANK YOU! The first number I tried from RECEIVEFREESMS.COM worked!
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this Site Freesmsverification.com is pretty good too.
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Thanks, I’ll try it out!
How about this site: sms.ndtan.net
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The receivefreesms.com is the best i think but all is good sites. Thanks.
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This is cool! Thank you!
Welcome back! It’s always interesting to read your well researched articles.
Welcome back..
Raymond!
Once again thanks for the timely well-researched article!
. . . AND welcome back to the Cyber-World Universe.
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curious that you did not mention textem.net? Not secure?