Pick Burner if
you want a native North American app for casual calls and texts and are happy paying by card.
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The app that named the category. Numbers you can burn, on a subscription paid through the app store.
The short version
Burner is a second-number app for the United States and Canada that lets you create temporary numbers for calls and texts and discard them, on a subscription purchased through the app stores. Numbers are VoIP-based; the account is tied to your app-store identity and a card.
you want a native North American app for casual calls and texts and are happy paying by card.
you need codes to arrive, a number outside North America, or no card and no name anywhere.
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In detail
FAQ
Yes. Burning a line wipes its inbox and releases it; a fresh number from another range is one order away.
Often not: VoIP ranges are refused by strict platforms. Ours are carrier allocations with a free swap.
An app needs a store account, which is an identity. A browser does not.
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