Email to text for device alerts
Texts from your devices to the people who will not install an app.
Your alarm, camera, NAS or server sends an alert email. Email2Text delivers it as a real text message. No carrier paperwork. From $5 a month.
Sign up now; texting opens as soon as US carrier approval of our sender comes through.
- Your deviceAlarm panel, camera, NAS, UPS, printer, server
- Sends an emailto your private Email2Text address
- Arrives as a texton numbers activated with a code
Email2Text: [Front door camera] Motion detected 14:02
Set up in three steps
- 1
Sign up and add a phone number
Add your own number, or your partner's, parent's or colleague's. They get a verification text with a code, and the number is activated once that code is entered in your account.
- 2
Point your device at your private address
Put your Email2Text address in the device's alert email setting, where the old carrier address used to go.
- 3
Alerts arrive as texts
When the device emails an alert, the activated phones get a short text that starts with “Email2Text:”.
Who it is for
Households
An alarm, camera or NAS that should reach a partner or a parent who will never install an alert app.
Anyone whose carrier address stopped working
Your device used to email a number at the carrier's address. Change that one setting and the texts come back.
Small IT teams
Servers, firewalls and UPS units that need to reach a few phones, without registering your own sender with the carriers.
Pricing
Home
One household, one phone to alert.
$5 a month
- 100 texts a month
- Up to 1 phone number
Family
Alerts that reach a partner or a parent too.
$10 a month
- 300 texts a month
- Up to 3 phone numbers
Business
Small IT teams and offices.
$19 a month
- 600 texts a month
- Up to 10 phone numbers
Prepaid pack
No subscription. $12 for 100 texts, for alerts that come a couple of times a week.
Extra texts
$3 per 100 texts on top of any plan.
Prices in US dollars. Texts go to US mobile numbers.
Questions
Why not use the free carrier email address?
Those addresses are going away. AT&T stopped its email-to-text addresses in 2025, and Verizon says it expects to finish shutting down vtext.com and vzwpix.com by 31 March 2027. Where they still work, delivery is often unreliable. Email2Text sends a real text message, so it does not depend on them.
Why not a push-notification app?
If the alert is only for you and you are happy with an app, a push app is a fine, cheaper choice. Email2Text is for when the alert has to reach someone else: a partner, a parent, staff on a basic phone, or anyone who will not install and look after another app. Everyone can receive a text.
Do I need a Twilio account or carrier paperwork?
No. Sending texts in the US needs a sender registered with the carriers. Email2Text holds that registration, so you sign up, add a number and start. You do not need your own account with a texting provider, a business tax ID or a phone number of your own to text from.
Which devices work?
Anything that can send an email alert: alarm panels, security cameras and video recorders, NAS boxes, UPS units, printers, servers, firewalls and monitoring tools. If it has an email notification setting, it can send to Email2Text.
Who can I send texts to?
Only phone numbers on your account that you activated with the code from a verification text sent to that phone. Before that, a number gets nothing but the verification text, and its owner can reply STOP at any time to block it. Email2Text is for alerts from your own devices. It cannot be used for marketing or to text lists of people.
How do I stop the texts?
Reply STOP to any message and that number gets no more texts. You can also remove the number from your account. Reply HELP for help.
Get your device alerts back on everyone's phone
Sign up, add a number, change one email setting on your device.
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