New Email to SMS Service -- Just Launched January 2026!

Email to SMS is a way to convert a standard email into a text message delivered to your phone. You send an email to a designated address and it arrives as an SMS — no apps, APIs, or code changes required. The cell phone carriers used to offer this service (vtext.com, txt.att.net, tmomail.net), but they've all been shut down or deprecated. text.email is the modern, drop-in replacement.

This service turns emails into SMS messages. It makes it easy to send an email, and then have an SMS sent to your mobile phone.

You can test text.email for free, but ongoing use requires a paid plan. Free testing is limited to prevent abuse and to make sure the service is used for legitimate alerts and notifications. You can see available plans on our Pricing page.

One account works well if you manage texting for all of the organizations and want a single point of billing with one credit card. This is a good fit when the same account settings apply to every organization and you are happy to manage their activity and reports together.

Create a separate account for each organization if they need to operate independently. Separate accounts let each organization use its own credit card, manage its own settings, and log in to see only its own messages and reports. Each account has its own billing and usage, so this is also the better choice when organizations need to pay their own bills or keep their activity private from one another.

text.email is designed for alerts and notifications, not person-to-person texting or casual conversations. It works best when an app, device, server, monitoring system, or email rule needs to send an important SMS alert. It should not be used for marketing, promotional messages, spam, or bulk texting.

Right now, we can only send SMS messages to U.S. and Canadian numbers. But we’ll be supporting other countries soon.

Because getting your app, device, or software to send emails is easy but getting it to send an SMS is hard. Sending an SMS directly involves registering for a number, complying with regulatory agencies, and figuring out how to call an SMS API.

Because in 2025, the major U.S. mobile providers shut these services down. Text.email is a replacement for AT&T’s txt.att.net, a replacement for T-Mobile’s tmomail.net, and a replacement for Verizon’s vtext.com.

Sending to your-number@text.email is just for fast, anonymous testing. If you create an account, you’re assigned a subdomain like “zebra”. (You can also edit your subdomain.) So you should then send emails to your-number@zebra.text.email. That way, all of those messages will be tied to your account. Keep your subdomain private. If you send to your-number@text.email, those messages will not be tied to your account and your tests will show on our homepage.

That counts as 5 messages, assuming the notification fits within a single SMS. Usage is counted per recipient, even when your software sends the same notification to everyone in one email.

If a longer notification is split into multiple SMS messages, each part counts separately for each recipient. For example, a notification split into 2 SMS messages and sent to 5 recipients counts as 10 messages.

Yes. In your account settings, you can choose which elements of the email (subject, body, from, and more) are used and create your own SMS format. For long or messy messages, you can also use the AI Summary feature to automatically turn the email into a concise text focused on the important details.

The SMS messages will be sent from a variety of different phone numbers, based on how we decide to route your specific SMS message. Sometimes it will be an 800 number, and sometimes it will be what’s known as a 10DLC (10 digit long code).

For provisioned accounts whose SMS messages originate from our 888 number, replies are captured and routed back through text.email. Reply handling is not available for anonymous test messages or for messages sent through non-reply-enabled routing.

No, we only support basic SMS messages.