4 ways to send free text messages to cell phones from your PC

Posted on October 20, 2007 at 11:20 am

Have you noticed that when you try to use some of those "send free text message to anyone’s mobile" services, half the time they don’t work? Well, most of them never worked for me and all I tried to do was send a text message from my computer at home to my Verizon cell phone! So I went ahead and tried out about 10 to 15 different services online and ended up with a list of ONLY 4 that actually worked.

Here’s my list of sites that I use now to send text messages online to mobile phones:

1. txt2day.com - Easy as heck to use, simply enter you 10 digit number, email (optional), your provider, and the text message. The reason this service is one of my favorite is for two reasons: first, if you’re sending a message to someone and you don’t know their wireless provider, you can lookup the provider based on the phone number and secondly, if someone starts to spam you using the service, you can have your number blocked so you don’t get any messages from that number.

2. Google Send To Phone - With Google’s service, you can actually count on it working. It’s very simple to use and works well. It unfortunately does not have the options like txt2day, but at least it works. However, unlike txt2day, you can install an extension for IE and Firefox to send messages directly from your browser!

3. SMS Everywhere - This is by far the simplest of all the text message sending services. All you have to fill out is the number and a message! The cool thing about his service which is an advantage over the other two is that you don’t have to know the provider at all, it figures it out for you! That’s pretty great in my book! Simply put in the number, type your message and you’re done!

4. Text’em - This service has no clear advantage over the other services and actually requires more steps, i.e. provider, email address, security code, etc, but at least it works!

All of these services are for the United States only, meaning you can only send text messages to US cell phones. Of course, you can only SEND for free, the person who receives them will be charged for incoming text messages depending on their plan.

Also, if you have an Internet-enabled device such as an iPhone, etc, you can launch these sites from the mobile browser. However, some may not work, so you can check out an application from txtDrop.com that lets you install a iPhone app for sending text messages from your iPhone.

http://www.txtdrop.com/iphone-app.php

So if you’re looking for a quick and easy way to send free SMS text messages to cell phones or mobile phones, check out these sites. Enjoy!

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14 Responses to “4 ways to send free text messages to cell phones from your PC”

Shivaranjan said on : October 20th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

You can even use yahoo messenger or yahoo mail to send sms messages.

lence said on : October 21st, 2007 at 8:47 pm

sux - only for US.

Vijay said on : October 22nd, 2007 at 4:46 am

About the google one, change the link to toolbar.google.com/send/sms/index.php

The other link gives an error!

Nirmal said on : October 22nd, 2007 at 7:26 am

You can use Yahoo to send messages to mobile phones as said by Shivaranjan.
Only for US is not a good idea.

Anand R said on : October 22nd, 2007 at 11:21 pm

http://www.way2sms.com is website for sending free sms to any mobile phones in India. This one really works , but the problem being its an ad supported sms , i.e every sms u send will have an additional ad txt attached to it. Register and start sending messages.

Robinson said on : October 23rd, 2007 at 6:34 am

Any website to send sms to india for free..? Please help me..

Gino said on : October 28th, 2007 at 11:17 am

are there any services that let you type 5 numbers and the message no area code or anything like that????,, is just for voting like 55555 NOV <<< like that NOV is the message

Manivarma said on : October 30th, 2007 at 3:27 am

I Want 2 make a small Page for to Send sms’s to any mobile in the world from my website will u pls help me by telling the code of that pages.

Precious said on : November 12th, 2007 at 3:36 am

I really want to be sending free messages to mobiles free of charge.

Hagop said on : January 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

dear sir

what i am looking for is sending from email to sms then translate from English to Greek

thank you

pandu said on : January 20th, 2008 at 1:10 am

this is very good site for youth

Marie said on : February 29th, 2008 at 10:30 am

Does anyone have any idea of a place you can send a text message from the computer in the United States to a phone n Africa??

VIJAY SALGOTRA said on : April 24th, 2008 at 7:20 am

I love to send free SMSs to any phone in India with the help of the portal way2sms.com. I really like it. I saved a lot of money with its help. Please ask its manager allow us to send 160 characters SMS from this portal and remove AD part