TextBuddy
What is Text Buddy?
TextBuddy is an application which allows you to send FREE text messages
online. It’s s always running so it’s instantly accessible and has a built in
address book for storing your favourite texting contacts:
O2, Vodafone and Meteor offer 300 FREE web texts per month, but the catch is the texts
must be sent via their website. Using this quota is therefore somewhat painful
since it requires you having to login to a website every time you want to send
a text message. TextBuddy removes this need and makes it easy to quickly send
text messages, for free to your friends and family, or even your work colleagues!
What networks are supported?
- O2 Ireland
- Vodafone Ireland
- Meteor Ireland
How does it work?
Using TextBuddy is easy, you simply choose a contact from your TextBuddy phonebook, enter a message and click send-
it’s that simple!
Why not try it today?
NOTE: TextBuddy is spyware, adware & malware FREE!
Frequently Asked Questions
TextBuddy is not working for me! – what’s wrong ?
IMPORTANT: The biggest mistake people make when trying TextBuddy is putting their mobile phone PIN number into the PIN/Password field of TextBuddy – THIS IS NOT CORRECT. You must put your “My o2″/”My Vodafone” PIN/Password in there instead. If you don’t have this then you need to go to your mobile providers homepage and register there first.
I don’t get it – Why bother using TextBuddy ?
Mobile Service providers such as O2 and Vodafone give you free monthly SMS messages online. At the time of writing Vodafone gives you 300 (over 30 euros worth) and O2 give you 250 (over 25 euros worth) PER MONTH so the question has to be asked why not use them all INSTEAD of paying for them by sending the messages with your phone? The answer: Save money – use TextBuddy.
What Networks are supported in TextBuddy?
TextBuddy is built in a modular design – currently it supports two networks: O2 – Ireland, and Vodafone – Ireland. If you require another network to be supported you could always contact us.
How come i can’t do XXX in TextBuddy?
TextBuddy is constantly being improved – TextBuddy also features automatic updates to alert you when new versions become available.
Fantastic app, looking to use this for community/school sms alerts.
Whats the chance of adding group functionality ?
I think that the free limits would be used pretty quickly,
Have you come accross an sms provider that has reasonable rates ?
I plan to add the group functionality in the next release.
You’re correct, if you’re going to use this functionality to send to a big group then it’s quite possible that your monthly allocation will get consumed pretty quickly.
Unfortunately, I can’t recommend any third party commercial providers as I haven’t investigated them myself. Sorry I can’t be of more help
yoyoyo hehe
hey this is good
Hi, love this and a great idea too! They’ve been offering these webtexts for free, and nobody really uses them. I feel like its like getting something for free, so thanks!
September 28,2009
Its a great idea and look forward to getting started. cant believe its free.So thanks.
I tried to enter a international number but this is not possible, can i send text messages to international mobile phones? Like i can on the O2 website?
Hi Utwente, Check the TextBuddy preferences to remove the 10 digit restriction on the phone number field. I believe once this is disabled you will be able to text international numbers.
Hi, wondering is there a chance command line usage would be added in the future? i was making a simular program to this but cant get it to work.
basically im making a program on my laptop that detects webcam movement, when it does it sends me a text. right now im using “sendkeys” medhod to interact with your program
Hi Bob,
TextBuddy’s executable supports a /send parameter. Usage: /send <PHONEBOOKENTRY_NAME> <MESSAGE>
Hope that helps
all i can say is fantastic!-is this really free? vodafone website has been driving me crazy trying to log in to send some texts but textbuddy just sends them straightaway. well done!
hi. just wondering is there a way to update the textbuddy password used to log in to o2 webtext. i changed it on o2 and now textbuddy can’t send. great app! thanks. tim
answering my own question… right click the tray icon > log out…
doh!
hi, does this app expire because at the bottom roght hand corner of the app it says : registered (expires 28/06/2010)
No, it doesn’t – the software does not expire.
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for the app works very well. Better than a lot of apps i’ve had to pay for!
Ralph
dude any chance you can use this on linux ubuntu?
Yes, you can use TextBuddy on Linux using Wine
I love it!
Long term user of Text buddy. I’m getting an error now with my textbuddy.
Cannot create file ‘C:\…\..\..87XXXXX.dat’.The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
Hi Bob,
Use the windows task manager to kill the TextBuddy.exe process, alternatively you could restart your machine and that should “fix” also. If that file continues to cause you problems then it’s safe to just delete it – it simply holds your current outbound message queue.
Regards
Jerry
Very nice. I’ll be using that so I will
Hi! Great application, i was wondering with the command line usage is it possible to only use the same instance, ie. when i send a message from the command line it opens text buddy and sends, then if i repeat it will open another instance of text buddy and send. Is there an option in command line to use the open instance instead of a new one?
Thanks! Great app!
hi edb,
No, unfortunately it’s not currently possible to re-use an open instance. However, TextBuddy SHOULD close once the sending of the message has completed. This works well if you use the cli switches to send the odd text or two – it doesn’t work well for bulk texting thou.
Regards
Jerry
Superb app Jerry! I spent the past two hours investigating different methods of trying to do just this, but your program does almost exactly what I had in mind, in fact better. I haven’t tried sending to a foreign number yet, but if that works, your a genius.
Two suggestions for future editions…
1) Hopefully I’ll get used to it, but right now, it’s a little annoying that when I tap enter the message sends, and I haven’t found a way of simply going onto a new line without sending the message. I’ve sent a few accidentally this way. Alt+Enter or Ctrl+Enter have no effect.
2) It would be really cool for me if the program had an inbuilt option to save all the sent messages (whether appending all to one large file, storing them in the program, or whatever).
All in all, a super achievement, thank you for sharing!
Hi Mark, Thanks for your kind words! I hope you get used to the enter thing but do let me know if you find you can’t adjust. Saving sent messages is definitely something I will add in later versions.