New -- Just launched January 2026!
Send email. Receive text.
Turn emails into real-time SMS alerts.
No signup required for testing. U.S. & Canada only.
Fast, one-way notifications for alerts, not marketing.
- Device monitoring
- Server & uptime alerts
- Security notifications
- Backup failures
- On-call paging
- Community meeting notices
Live demo
Live Demo
Send an email to:
your-number@text.email
(example: 2125551212@text.email)
You’ll receive the text in seconds. Free testing is limited to prevent abuse.
Important
This service only allows alerts / notifications.
If your email contains marketing or promotional language,
it will bounce.
OK:
“Test 123”, “Server down”, “Login from new device”, “Backup failed”.
Not OK:
“Limited time offer”, “Buy now”, “20% off”.
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Like what you see?
Get your own account.
Get your own subdomain so your alerts don’t appear on the homepage.
Real-world ways people use text.email
A few examples of how teams and individuals are turning email into instant SMS alerts.
Industrial maintenance
Pump and equipment failure alerts go straight to on-call staff.
Utility operations
Infrastructure alarms are sent when sensors report abnormal conditions.
Security teams
Door-forced-open and intrusion alerts reach mobile phones immediately.
Healthcare clinics
Urgent staff notices and on-call updates are delivered by SMS.
Flight operations
Status changes and operational alerts reach the right people.
Water utilities
Pump, tank, and environmental alerts are sent when conditions change.
IT teams
Host, server, and service-health alerts help keep systems online.
Market monitoring
Signal alerts are sent when price or indicator conditions are met.
Small businesses
New lead notifications are forwarded so sales staff can respond faster.
Community groups
Meeting reminders and schedule changes are sent directly to members.
Why text.email exists
For years, the “easy” way to send a text from an alerting system was to email your phone through a carrier gateway: number@carrier-domain. That era is over.
The old carrier email-to-text gateways
AT&T
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Shut down (June 17, 2025)
5551234567@txt.att.net
Verizon
—
Heavily restricted / often blocked
5551234567@vtext.com
T-Mobile
—
Unreliable / filtering issues
5551234567@tmomail.net
These free gateways became spam magnets, so carriers shut them down or locked them down.
Your alerts shouldn’t depend on a legacy loophole.
text.email is the modern replacement:
send an email → receive a real SMS alert in seconds.
Don't miss critical alerts
SMS is harder to miss than email.
Works with any app
If it can send an email, it can trigger a text.
No APIs or code
Set up in minutes, not days.
Compliance built-in
STOP/HELP handling + carrier rules.
General FAQ
Want more questions/answers? Click here for the
Technical FAQ.
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.
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.
Right now, we can only send SMS messages to U.S. and Canadian numbers. But we’ll be supporting other countries soon.
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.
This service is for one-way alerts and notifications only. Replies to the SMS messages are discarded and never seen.
Yes, you can control which elements of the email (subject/body/from) are used in the actual SMS sent. It’s in your account’s settings.
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).
No, we only support basic SMS messages.
No, we only support basic SMS messages.
Each SMS we send counts as 1 message. So if one email generates 3 text messages by sending to 3 @your-subdomain.text.email addresses, that counts as 3 messages.
What text.email is for
Built for alerts, not marketing. Not a mass-texting platform. Just fast, reliable, one-way notifications.
Server and uptime alerts
Security and access notifications
Backup failures
Application errors
Cron job failures
On-call paging
Sensors, monitors, and IoT devices
Critical warnings
Community meeting notices
Email forwarding
Stock market alerts
Aviation alerts
How It Works
From signup to your first alert in 1 minute or less.
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Start sending alerts
Choose a subdomain and send emails to trigger texts.
Only emails sent to your-number@your-subdomain.text.email
are delivered and credited to your account.