Texts, delivered to your authorized email inbox.
(You can even respond)
It's a normal email inbox, not a website that's usually blocked.
SCIFText runs on your phone. It watches the notifications you allow, and emails those notifications to addresses you choose. Reply to that email and the phone sends your answer as a text from your own number.
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How it works
- Add up to three forwarding addresses and turn forwarding on. Nothing is forwarded until you enable it.
- Leave your phone in an authorized, safe, and secure place. Somewhere with a good data signal.
- A new text on your phone shows up in that email inbox. Picture messages too. Open it like any other email.
- Missed calls, doorbell, motion alarms, and package deliveries can go there as well. Turn those sources on in the app. Each one is a notification on the phone that becomes an email. The list is below.
- Reply from your mail client (Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, etc) The reply goes back through the phone, so the other person sees it coming from you.
Other apps
Texts and missed calls are built in. These can be turned on too. Each one is a notification on the phone that becomes an email.
- Messaging Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Discord, GroupMe, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Snapchat, X, LinkedIn, Pushbullet
- Food & delivery DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, Instacart, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, McDonald's, Domino's
- Rides Uber, Lyft
- Home & security Reolink, Ring, Home Assistant, Google Home, Nest, Wyze, SimpliSafe, ADT, Blink, Arlo, eufy, Bambu Handy, Traeger
- Garage myQ, Tailwind, Meross
- Shopping & packages Amazon Shopping, FedEx, UPS, USPS Informed Delivery
- AI assistants ChatGPT, Grok, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Pi, Character.AI, Grok Bot
These names are trademarks of their owners. SCIFText isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of any of them.
Want another app on this list? Submit Feedback in the app, or email feedback@sciftext.com.