On: Transitioning Away from Google Services

[esnowrackley]

Voice was a mainstay for me for a long time. The closest replacement I could find was a service called OpenPhone[1]. It's designed as a VoIP service for small business teams, but I'm finding it works great as a solo voice/text option. I was able to port the Voice number over.

[1] https://www.openphone.com/

[warner25 → esnowrackley]

Nice, thanks for the tip.

I actually don't even use a lot of the features of Voice. I mostly just like having my phone number decoupled from any carrier or handset, so changing them is seamless, or they aren't even necessary. I do a lot of my phone calls and SMS/MMS messaging from the web application on my laptop.

[thelittleone → esnowrackley]

+1 for openphone. No affiliation but I've been using it for about a year now and it just works. Never had an issue and it gets out of my way.

[Andrex → esnowrackley]

As someone using their Voice number as their main number since 2010, thank you!

[woleium → esnowrackley]

I quite like viop.ms