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Step-by-step guides for letting your own websites, shops, forms and scripts send texts through your own Android phone, from your own number.
RSS feedMulti-tenant SMS: every client of your app texts from their own number
Your app serves many businesses. On Enterprise, each client links their own Android phone by QR code, and your app texts their customers from their number.
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Read the article →The SMSTunnel desktop app is here: your texts on your computer
The free SMSTunnel app for Windows and Linux: write and read your texts on your computer, and your own Android phone sends them from your own number.
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EncryptionEnd-to-end encrypted texts from your own software: what is and isn't encrypted
Your software encrypts each text with your phone's public key, so SMSTunnel can't read it. What is encrypted today, what isn't, and how Maximum privacy works.
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PricingWhat it costs to send texts from your own SIM vs. an SMS API
What sending texts really costs: per-segment prices, rented numbers and US registration with an SMS API, or a flat plan plus your own phone's SIM.
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WooCommerceSend WooCommerce SMS from your own number, without Twilio
Text your WooCommerce customers about their orders from your own Android phone and number, with a free plugin: order statuses, tracking and new-order alerts.
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Sign-in codesSMS sign-in codes without Twilio: Supabase, Auth0, Clerk and Better Auth
Send the sign-in codes of Supabase, Auth0, Clerk and Better Auth from your own Android phone and number, with one small npm package and no SMS API account.
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WordPressSMS for WordPress forms: Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms and Forminator
Get a text for each Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms or Forminator submission, and confirm to the visitor, from your own phone and number.
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n8nSend texts from n8n through your own Android phone
Send SMS from your n8n workflows through your own Android phone and number with the free SMSTunnel community node: install, credentials and three workflows.
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Home AssistantHome Assistant SMS notifications from your own phone
Text yourself from Home Assistant through your own Android phone and number: leak, power cut, freezer and door alerts with notify.smstunnel, step by step.
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Google SheetsText reminders from Google Calendar and Google Sheets, sent from your own phone
Google Calendar stopped texting reminders in 2019. Bring them back, and text people from Google Sheets, with free Apps Script templates and your own phone.
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MonitoringMonitoring alerts by SMS from your own phone: Uptime Kuma, Grafana, Zabbix and GitHub Actions
Get Uptime Kuma, Grafana, Zabbix and GitHub Actions alerts as texts sent by your own Android phone, from your own number. No GSM modem, no SMS provider.
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AILet Claude, Cursor and VS Code send texts from your own phone
Connect the SMSTunnel MCP server to Claude, Cursor or VS Code, and your AI assistant can text from your own phone and number, after you approve each text.
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