SMS Activate Bot service bot
In short
Feature-wise this is a full SMS-receiving service squeezed into a chat: rentals, recovery, an API and webhooks. We liked how well the menu is thought out. What bothers us is the boastful self-description and prices that only appear after launch.
About the bot
The flow is the usual one for this kind of service. Pick a country and the site you are signing up for, buy a number and wait for the verification code to arrive. Your real phone stays out of it, which is handy for a second account or an app you would rather not give your own number to.
There are plenty of commands, and they make sense. You get separate views for your numbers and received messages, recovery of a number you need again, transferring a number or balance to someone else, and alerts when numbers for a given country appear. Now and then the bot hands out a free number. The interface can switch language.
For people automating sign-ups there are API keys, a webhook for incoming SMS and forwarding of codes into a group chat. That leans towards work tasks rather than a one-off login to a single app.
The name matches a well-known SMS service, but the profile does not make clear whether they are related, and it points to its own website. Prices depend on country and service and show up only after you top up. Remember that a virtual number is not yours, so do not tie a main account you may need to recover by SMS to it.
You'll like it if
- you need a number to sign up without your own phone
- you juggle several accounts and want an API or webhooks
- forwarding codes into a team chat is useful to you
Skip it if
- you are registering a main account you may later recover by SMS
- prices matter to you before any top-up
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