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Comparison
Signal vs TextNow
Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re close.
Signal is a free, open-source messaging app with end-to-end encryption for text messages, voice and video calls, file sharing, and group chats. It is developed by an independent nonprofit.
TextNow provides a free phone number and free calling and texting through its app, plus a mobile wireless service on a US nationwide 5G network with optional paid data, unlimited plans and low-cost international calling.
- Company
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Registered in
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Online since
- Unknown
- Unknown
- Audience
- Top 10K
- Smaller site
- Trackers on the homepage
- fewer
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- Tag manager: Google Tag Manager
- Third-party embeds: Adobe Fonts
- Privacy-friendly analytics: Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Ad trackers
- None
- None
- Cookie banner
- –
- –
- Prices
- No pricing page found
- No pricing page found
- Last price change
- –
- –
- Privacy policy changes
- 0
- 0
- Terms changes
- 0
- 0
- Open positions
- –
- –
Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.