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@textbeeJoined October 2026

Open-source SMS gateway: your Android phone as an SMS API

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textbee turns an Android phone into an SMS gateway. Send and receive texts from your apps over a REST API, webhooks, the JavaScript SDK or MCP for AI agents, from your own number. Open source (MIT), self-hostable, with a free hosted plan. We write about SMS APIs, Android, webhooks and building textbee in the open.

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We turned Android phones into an open-source SMS API. Here's how textbee works.

Hi, we're the team behind textbee, an open-source SMS gateway. Your app makes one HTTP request. A text goes out from an Android phone you already own, through its SIM, from its number. Replies come ba

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