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BubblyPhone Features

Call any phone in 222 countries from your browser or the apps, get a US number that receives calls and texts, and add AI transcription and live translation to your calls. Everything is pay as you go, from $0.02/min.

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Call any mobile or landline in 222 countries and territories from a browser or the apps, and see the price before you dial.

Call any phone from your browser

Sign in at bubblyphone.com and dial. There is nothing to install: calls run in the browser on a computer or phone, and the person you call gets an ordinary phone call.

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Mobiles and landlines in 222 countries

Every country has its own mobile and landline rates, listed on the rates page and shown in the dialer as you type a number.

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Rate and talk time before you call

The dialer shows the per-minute rate for the number you type and how many minutes your balance buys. A call ends on its own when your balance runs out.

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Choose your caller ID

Call from a shared BubblyPhone number, or show your own US number so people can call you back on it.

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In-call controls

Mute, hang up and use the keypad to get through phone menus ("press 1 for billing").

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Keep the call while you browse

A floating call card follows you around the site, warns you before you close the page mid-call, and can pop out into its own window in desktop Chrome and Edge.

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Your own US number

Get a US number with a local area code and use it to receive calls and texts, wherever you live.

Get a US number

Search by area code, state, city or digits and have the number in minutes. Up to 5 numbers per account. Pay $3 setup + $3/month from your balance, or $9.99/month by card with $6 of calling credit included.

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Receive calls anywhere

Incoming calls ring in the browser and in the iPhone and Android apps. Receiving is charged per minute from your balance.

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Forward calls to your mobile

Send incoming calls to any phone you choose. The forwarded part of the call is charged at the normal rate for that destination.

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Voicemail with transcripts

Missed calls go to voicemail with your own recorded or uploaded greeting. Each message is transcribed, and you get an email when one arrives.

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Receive and reply to texts

Get texts on your number and reply to people who texted you. Texts are charged per message from your balance.

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Caller name listing

Ask for a caller name (up to 15 characters) to show on the phones you call. We review each request, and carriers pick it up in 1 to 3 days.

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Alerts for calls and texts

Push notifications and emails tell you about new calls, voicemails and texts. Give each number a label to tell them apart.

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AI on your calls

Optional AI features that run on ordinary phone calls. You turn each one on per call or per number, and pay only for the minutes it runs.

Live call translation (beta)

Speak your language while the person you call hears theirs, in 62 languages, with live captions and a bilingual transcript afterwards. They need no app or account.

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Transcripts of your calls

Switch on Transcribe before an outgoing call and get the full transcript and a short AI summary in your call history.

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Transcripts of incoming calls

Turn on transcription for a number and every answered or forwarded call to it is transcribed and summarised.

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Credit and payments

Pay as you go: add credit when you need it, from $5. There is no subscription for calling, and credit doesn't expire.

Top-up packs with bonus credit

Choose a pack or enter your own amount from $5. Larger packs add up to 25% bonus credit. In the iPhone app you buy credit through the App Store.

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Card, Google Pay and App Store

Pay by card on the web (processed by Stripe), by card or Google Pay on Android, and through the App Store on iPhone. Prices are in US dollars.

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Minutes estimator and local currency

Enter the number you want to call to see how many minutes each top-up buys, with an approximate price in your own currency.

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Invoices and billing addresses

Download a PDF invoice for every top-up and add a company name and VAT number for your records.

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History, contacts and support

Everything you call is recorded in your history with its cost, and help is built into the apps.

Call history with costs

Every call shows its duration, rate and cost, with transcripts when you turned them on. On the web you can filter by period and direction and export to CSV.

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Contacts

On the web, save contacts with notes and favourites, see the rate to each one, and import or export CSV or vCard files. The apps can call straight from your phone's contacts.

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Report a problem with a call

Flag a call for bad audio, a drop, a wrong charge or a failed connection. Calls that failed because of a fault on our side are credited back.

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Help centre and feature requests

Guides for billing, call problems and the apps, a changelog of what is new, and a form to request features or report bugs.

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Free tools and extras

Free without an account.

Free phone tools

Over 30 tools, including a phone number validator, country code lookup, best time to call, call cost calculator and spam number check.

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Chrome extension

World Dialing Codes shows dialling codes, local times and rates for over 150 countries from your browser toolbar.

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Connect your AI assistant

A free, public MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI assistants look up our live rates, prices, available numbers and help articles.

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Account security

Sign in with email, Google or Apple, get an email when someone signs in from a new place, and delete your account yourself at any time.

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Which features work where

One account and one balance work on the web and in both apps. A few features are on some platforms only.

BubblyPhone features by platform
FeatureWebiPhoneAndroid
Calls to any phone
Rate and talk time before you call
Choose your caller ID
Receive calls on a US number
Forwarding and voicemail
Receive and reply to texts
Call transcription
Live call translation
Caller name listing
Minutes estimator and local currency
Pop-out call window
Invoices

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about BubblyPhone. Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us at hello@bubblyphone.com

Call any mobile or landline in 222 countries from your browser or the iPhone and Android apps, get a US number to receive calls and texts, and add AI transcription or live translation to your calls. You pay per minute from prepaid credit.
By the minute: each call is charged the per-minute rate shown before you dial, rounded up to the next full minute, and taken from your balance when the call ends. There is no connection fee and no monthly fee for calling.
The United States. You can pick the area code, state or city, and you do not need to live in the US. Toll-free numbers and numbers in other countries are not available yet.
You can receive texts on your US number and reply to people who texted you first. Starting new text conversations to numbers that have not messaged you is not supported.
Not yet. Live call translation is available when you call from bubblyphone.com in a browser, including a phone browser. Call transcription works on the web and in both apps.
Only when you turn on transcription or a caller leaves a voicemail. You get a written transcript and summary; there is no general call recording.
Cards on the web, cards or Google Pay in the Android app, and App Store billing in the iPhone app. PayPal is not supported.

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