Get a Fax Number on Your Cell Phone
You can get a fax number on your cell phone from a fax service. With a FaxTerra plan from $4.99 a month, your own fax number receives into the FaxTerra app, and your phone gets a push notification the moment a fax arrives.
How a fax number works on a phone
The fax number is a separate number from your cell number. Anyone faxes it from a fax machine or a fax service like any other fax number, and the fax lands in your FaxTerra inbox as a PDF. You open it and download it in the app, and an email arrives too. The same inbox is on the web, so a fax that came in on your phone opens on a computer as well.
Using your cell number itself
A US or Canadian cell number can move to FaxTerra if your carrier releases it, because nothing rules a number out for being mobile. Once it moves, it receives faxes only, and calls, voicemail and texts to it stop. If you still call and text from your cell number, keep it where it is and pick a new FaxTerra number for fax.
Sending from the same phone
The app scans a paper document with the camera and faxes it, and every account gets 10 free pages a month. With a number of your own, your faxes go out from it, so a reply comes back to the app. See how to send a fax from your phone.
What it costs
- Starter: $4.99/month or $49.99/year, with your own fax number and 60 pages a month for sending and receiving together.
- One-time fax number: $14.99 once for a number of your own for 90 days with 50 pages, when you are waiting on one reply. You buy it on the web at faxterra.com, and its faxes arrive in the app. Nothing renews.
See plans and pricing.
How to get a fax number on your phone
- Install the FaxTerra app from the App Store or Google Play and sign in.
- Choose a plan and pick your fax number.
- Allow notifications, so the app can tell you when a fax arrives.
- Give the fax number to whoever needs to fax you.
See how to send a fax with FaxTerra
Frequently Asked Questions
Can my cell phone receive a fax?
Not by itself. A phone has no fax feature, so the fax goes to a fax number from a fax service, and the service delivers it to an app on your phone. With a FaxTerra number, the fax arrives in the FaxTerra app as a PDF.
Can I use my existing cell number as a fax number?
You can move it to FaxTerra if your carrier releases it, but then it receives faxes only, and calls and texts to it stop. To keep calling and texting from it, add a separate FaxTerra number for fax.
Will I get a text when a fax arrives?
No. FaxTerra tells you by email and by the app's push notification, and never by text message, so a text claiming to be a fax notice from us is not from us.
Can I get a fax number on my phone without a subscription?
Yes, for a while. The one-time fax number is $14.99 once, bought on the web at faxterra.com, and receives into the app for 90 days, then ends with nothing to cancel.
Does the fax number work on Android?
Yes. The FaxTerra app is on iPhone and Android, and the same account, number and inbox are in both and on the web.
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A dedicated US or Canada fax number with an inbox and email alerts, $4.99/month. Cancel anytime.
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