Burner: Second Phone Number

The powerful Burner app gives you real phone numbers on-demand for texting, calling, and picture messaging – with anyone on the phone network. Users around the world rely on Burner to keep the circles of their life separate and their personal numbers private.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Utilities	Free	Ad Hoc Labs, INC	iPhone, iPad, iPod

NEXT-GENERATION PHONE NUMBERS
Burner has many advanced features, including the ability to manage separate contacts, greetings, notification settings, colors, and photo backgrounds for each line. You can keep Burner numbers as long as you want, or delete them any time.

*** NEW - BURNER CONNECTIONS ***
Burner Connections is a revolutionary platform that connects your phone number directly with apps you love, like Dropbox, Slack, and Evernote. Do things that were never possible with phone numbers before: automatically save picture messages and voicemails to Dropbox; route messages to your team on Slack; share audio content to Soundcloud; build an Evernote-powered SMS-bot; and more.

*** NEW - BURNER PREMIUM ***
Now you can subscribe* to get premium lines featuring unlimited calling, texting, and picture messages, and you never have to worry about forgetting to renew.

A few of the many things our users love to use Burner for:
* work and customer calls and texts
* dating and meeting new people
* buying and selling things online
* sales and marketing, conferences, PR
* car dealers, mortgage brokers, and other salespeople
* side businesses and projects from bands to etsy shops to food trucks
* texting with students
* startups and small businesses

Featured in Wired, the New York Times, TIME, Engadget, and many other media outlets, Burner is known for its best-in-class design, quality, and functionality.

HOW BURNER WORKS:
When you use a Burner number, the people you call and text will see only your Burner number. Calls will connect to your primary phone number; texts stay in the Burner app.

Burner is free to download and free to try. Additional time and numbers are available by in-app purchase or subscription. No hassles; no carrier contracts.

Download our app and get your first Burner for free for a trial period.

*Burner Premium subscriptions:
- $4.99/month auto-renewing Burner Premium subscription enables 1 Burner line with unlimited calls, texts, and picture messages for one month
- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
- Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
- Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
- Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication.

For more information see our Privacy Policy (http://burnerapp.com/privacy) and Terms of Use (http://burnerapp.com/terms-of-service).

IMPORTANT:
Not for iPad or iPod Touch. Phone calls use cell phone minutes. Burner is free for a trial period only -- please review our pricing before purchasing. Area code availability varies. May not work with some SMS shortcode services. Not for 911 emergency services. Works in US and Canada only. Not available in Puerto Rico.

Reviews

Removed essential features
security researcher

Integration with Slack or some other persistent pure-internet platform was essential, and has been removed. Charges a lot of money, and disappears old messages if a line isn't renewed. Not really recommended.

False Advertising - Subscription Only
ThisGameTrulyReallySucks

This app claims to offer a pre-paid plan. That is not true. It is a subscription plan only. False advertising. Bait and switch.

No way to unsubscribe
welding818

There is no way to unsubscribe from iTunes. Very frustrated that I can’t cancel this.

can't receive voice mails
incas99

missed calls no message

It’s garbage now. Used to be fantastic.
[MM]

It was handy to use Burner to create a temporary phone number for one reason or another. Marketer was giving out coupons and required you cell number. Potential job interview but went through a disreputable recruiter. That sort of thing. Buy 3 credits, create a burner and let it expire in a few days when you’re done. Very convenient. But now they’ve ruined it. I would give it zero stars if I could. First the app started glitching. Asking for me to re-authorize it with a text message every minute or so. Then they took my money and didn’t give me the credits, wouldn’t create a new burner, reported server problems whenever I tried to report the problem. So, I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. Immediately after reinstall I was presented with a $10/month subscription prompt and no way to dismiss it. Force quitting the app and relaunching got me past the prompt and into the setup screens and then I finally got to the point where I could buy credit and set up a burner… except that the only non-subscription option is now 8 credits for 30 days - $5 bucks instead of $2 bucks. Not quick, easy, or cheap anymore. No more simple sms or quickie burner phone number options, and a flood of popups pushing the $10/month plan if you try to select even that crummy one-time prepay plan. Heck with this. Burner was quick and easy and cheap and not annoying. Now it’s none of the above. There are other options for the same type of service. A few months ago they were just a little more of a hassle than Burner. But now Burner’s the worst of the bunch.

Best Bummer App
J. Quincy Magooo

Have been looking for a career change.. so I have been using “Burner” as my “work” phone #. The issue I have been having is that whenever I receive calls and go to answer them, the call gets dropped. I’ve had to call potential employers back and apologize for the dropped calls… not the first impression I was trying to make :(

Lol
WE$TCOA$T19

This app works fine. I use this as a business number and it constantly shows up as another caller ID or scam likely. Please fix this.

They scam you for the first month
MiaTango

Before the end of my free trial I emailed to make SURE they knew I wanted to cancel. They wrote back: In regards to the subscription, that must be cancelled through your iTunes account. Keep in mind, deleting your Burner account will not automatically cancel your iTunes based subscription and you will be charged the renewal fees until it is manually cancelled. Let us know what we can do to help, and if you’d still like your account deleted, just confirm that for me and I’ll start the process. SERIOUSLY? Let them know??? What the heck do they think the email said?? That I was still considering keeping it????? They scam you for the first month and then let you go but they get $10 off of you before you leave. UPDATE: I got a second email AGAIN giving me instructions to let them know if I want to cancel. THREE TIMES I said I wanted to, how many times do they need? They said they’d send a confirmation text to ensure I’m the owner. No text ever came. They keep you hooked and won’t let you go!!