Cloud SIM facilitates receiving texts and calls to your new number, free text chat between phones worldwide while using Wi-Fi or data, sharing pictures, and using local access from your free minutes while you travel or have no internet. The service offers low-cost and free rates for calls or text SMS without additional or roaming charges, lets you choose your connection type, and lets you set up your call via either local access (GSM), mobile data, or Wi-Fi to some 200 countries. If you need multiple phone numbers on your smartphone for international conversations between mobile and landline, Cloud SIM - which offers numbers from the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, and Poland - may be the answer. Sideline is updated often with bug fixes and interface enhancements. You can pick a new Sideline phone number and port numbers from a burner number, Google number, Smartline, Line2, or other services. Additional features include custom caller ID, business voicemail message and greeting, voicemail to text, and auto voicemail. An enterprise account lets you manage company phone numbers on employee devices.
You can choose area codes to find an available local number for your region and employ auto-reply via text or MMS. The app lets you build a unique identity with vanity phone numbers, where your name or product is spelled out.
Pro features include a team number that allows you to split a single number among multiple devices.
Texting includes SMS, MMS picture messaging, and group messaging. All calls are cellular and use your existing carrier plan. Sideline is a business-oriented app that provides a second phone number as well as calling, texting, and voicemail features, designed for workplace collaboration.