The original post: /r/privacy by /u/Background-Car4969 on 2025-08-04 05:32:01+00:00.

Yeah, I used Textfree for a some time and I have to tell everyone that it’s not something you want to be using for audible conversations…it’s really bad. The issue is with their infrastructure, it can’t handle simple loads of VoIP and congestion that naturally develop due from it.

It’s barely worthy of using if you leave voice messages to someone, but once you get into a real conversation with two people, the first 50 seconds will be a garbled mess of tinny and robotic sounds mixed in with your voice.

If you can stand this then more power, but it happens EVERY time regardless of phone, wifi and location. No voip is perfect, but put this up against Google voice which unfortunately you cannot change phone numbers very frequently and Textfree isn’t even on the board as far as quality.

I would not be using this app for anything of importance or quality conversations. Even after the first bout of bad lag etc. it will continue to do the same off and on…just a poor product that needs real investment into the infrastructure.

If anyone knows of an alternative that can do the two things - new numbers daily and quality connections - and is price point acceptable that would be great.